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  • The Baron June 25, 2014 at 9:30am

    Yeah, he was a great actor.

  • doc photo June 25, 2014 at 1:12pm

    Mention Eli Wallach and I immediately think of him in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Wonder how he felt about being the "Ugly" one?

  • Emerkeith Davyjack June 25, 2014 at 7:17pm



    doc photo said:

    Mention Eli Wallach and I immediately think of him in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Wonder how he felt about being the "Ugly" one?

    ...As Liberace put it (Now THERE'S a pairing !!!!!!!) , " cry all the way to the bank " ? :-)

  • Emerkeith Davyjack June 25, 2014 at 7:31pm

    ...Some years ago ~ IIRC , in Comic Buyers' Guide , in its magazine years ~

      I read of an ADVENTURES OF ELIWALLACH independent , I guess B&W , comic book , fully liscenced ~ It featured stories of Wallach as characters of the sort he was noted for in his films ~ Like the old ALAN LADD (which I never read) or BOB HOPE or JERRY LEWIS (those I've read) comics ~ drawings of Wallach " as " various kinds of characters .

      I searched for it just now , but could find no listing that mentioned it .

  • Captain Comics June 27, 2014 at 3:45pm

    I assembled the wire obit for my newspaper, so I read quite a bit from Mr. Wallach. He loved being "Ugly," and enjoyed it when people would whistle the theme song at him. He was a method actor, so he invented a back story for his character and adhered to it.

    Interestingly, he said the most mail he got overall was for his one-off appearance as Mr. Freeze in Batman!

  • Emerkeith Davyjack July 3, 2014 at 7:09pm

    ...I thought that was Otto Preminger , CC !?

  • Ron M. July 3, 2014 at 9:08pm

    Mr. Freeze was played by a different actor every time he appeared. George Sanders played him first, and, I thought, the best.

  • Captain Comics July 3, 2014 at 9:44pm

    Catwoman, too, was played by three different actresses. (Eartha Kitt and Julie Newmar on the TV show, Lee Meriwether for the movie.) The Riddler was played by two different actors, Frank Gorshin and John Astin.

  • Ron M. July 3, 2014 at 9:49pm
    What was interesting about the Riddler was the first actor returned to the part. John Astin made a great Gomez Adams but he was miscast as Riddler. Obviously a difficult part to play. You'd think Jim Carrey would have been a good Riddler, but...
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