The Good, The Bad and the Ugly - Duel

Eli Herschel Wallach (born December 7, 1915) is an American film, TV and stage actor. Wallach was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Bertha (née Schorr) and Abraham Wallach, the only Jewish family in a mostly Italian American neighborhood. Wallach released his autobiography The Good, the Bad and Me: In My Anecdotage. In this tome, Wallach talked about his most famous role as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. He mentioned that he didn't realize he was going to be "blessed" with that title until he saw the film. He mentioned it was an honor to work with Clint Eastwood, whom he praised for his professionalism. Wallach mentioned, however, that director Sergio Leone was notoriously careless in ensuring the safety of his actors during dangerous scenes. It was during filming that Wallach accidentally drank from a bottle of acid that a film technician had carelessly placed next to his soda bottle. He spat it out immediately, but was furious that his vocal cords could have been damaged if he'd swallowed any of it. Leone gave him some milk to wash his mouth out with and apologized for the incident, but also commented that accidents do happen.

Leone could not find a real cemetery that matched his requirements so he asked his Spanish chief of pyrotechnics to get him 250 soldiers from the Spanish Army to build one at Carazo near Salas De Los Infantes: it took two days."

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Jewish Oscar winners

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has awarded Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Actress annually since 1928. The Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress Awards has been awarded annually since 1936. The Academy Award (nicknamed the "Oscar") is the most prestigious award that a film actor can receive.

The following lists Jewish actors and actresses who received this award:

1936 Paul Muni The Story of Louis Pasteur
1967 Rod Steiger In the Heat of the Night
1977 Richard Dreyfuss The Goodbye Girl
1979 Dustin Hoffman Kramer vs. Kramer
1988 Dustin Hoffman Rain Man
2002 Adrien Brody The Pianist

1929-30 Norma Shearer The Divorcee (convert)
1936 Luise Rainer The Great Ziegfeld
1937 Luise Rainer The Good Earth
1950 Judy Holliday Born Yesterday
1968 Barbra Streisand (tie) Funny Girl
1986 Marlee Matlin Children of a Lesser God