Eli Wallach dies

One of Hollywood's great character actors, Eli Wallach , died on Tuesday. Wallach was 98. Wallach was a veteran stage actor when he scored his first big film role in the controversial 1956 movie "Babie Doll". He was a Mexican bandit in 1960's "The Magnificent Seven". He was a bandit again in "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" in 1966, which also starred an up and coming actor by the name of Clint Eastwood..

In the 1950s he won a Tony -- stage drama's answer to the Oscar's -- for his role in Tennessee Williams' "The Rose Tattoo." There he played a truck driver who courts and wins over an Italian widow.

In the spaghetti western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," Wallach played a greedy Mexican who was pitted against Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef.

Wallach continued to work well into his 90s. He again appeared alongside Eastwood in the 2003 dramatic thriller "Mystic River" and in 2010 played in both Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" and Oliver Stone’s "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” - at the age of 95.

Wallach leaves behind his wife Anne and three children.

( ABC News )