Lee Van Cleef
Actor
The Man with No Name Westerns...cool character is a deadly shot and you can't help but cheer him on against the gangs. For a Few Dollars More introduces Lee van Cleef's tough-as-nails character Mortimer while he's on a bounty hunt. Through clever flashbacks, we... In this article: Clint Eastwood, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, Sergio Leone, For a Few Dollars More, Yojimbo, Toshiro Mifune, and Akira Kurosawa |
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Life123 | October 27, 2009
Top 6 Clint Eastwood Westerns
...Ugly With the success of the previous two Dollars films, Leone was able to create an epic masterpiece. Eastwood stars alongside Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach, with the trio traveling across Civil War battlefields in search of lost...
In this article: Clint Eastwood, Sergio Leone, Unforgiven, Dollars Trilogy, A Fistful of Dollars, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Man with No Name, Tom Mix, and B-movies
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Baltimore Sun | October 22, 2009
Noir offerings color AFI screen
...rabid B-movie, it's also piquant that Conte's most effective defense against exposure turns out to be the writ of habeas corpus. Lee Van Cleef and Earl Holliman, as Conte's hit men, combine with Donlevy to form a generational study of film...
In this article: Richard Conte, Billy Wilder, Ace in the Hole, Joseph H. Lewis, Cornel Wilde, Kirk Douglas, Silver, The Big Combo, and Gun Crazy
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Wikipedia | October 19, 2009
The Magnificent Seven Ride
...than its predecessors. This is the only film in the series filmed entirely in the United States. Lee Van Cleef was already committed to this film when he was asked to star in a film that would eventually become Adios, Sabata, the second...
In this article: The Magnificent Seven Ride, Sabata, Yul Brynner, The Magnificent Seven, George McGowan, Return of the Seven, George Kennedy, and Adios, Sabata
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Wikipedia | October 19, 2009
The Big Gundown
...title: La resa dei conti - roughly The Settling of Accounts) is a 1966 spaghetti western directed by Sergio Sollima and starring Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian. It falls in to the subgenre called Zapata Westerns which are spaghetti westerns...
In this article: The Big Gundown, Sergio Sollima, Tomas Milian, Koch Media, Dollars Trilogy, DVD, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and Sergio Leone
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Independent.co.uk - Film & TV | October 17, 2009
Thirst, Park Chan-wook, 133 mins, (18) Pontypool, Bruce McDonald, 96 mins, (15)
...excesses - and McHattie, imposingly cranky as the burnt-out, Stetsoned radio rebel, looking like a wild-eyed, freshly embalmed Lee Van Cleef. Zombie film or art film? Scares notwithstanding, the latter for sure: the clue is a glimpse of a...
In this article: Park Chan-wook, Pontypool, Thirst, Bruce McDonald, Kim Ok-vin, Korea, Roland Barthes, Song Kang-ho, and Stephen McHattie
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Wikipedia | October 06, 2009
Lee Van Cleef
...Duel. He died from a heart attack in Oxnard, California and was interred in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. His gravestone reads "Lee Van Cleef January 9, 1925 - December 16, 1989 'Best of the Bad' Love and Light".
In this article: For a Few Dollars More, Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, B-grade, World War II, and Mister Roberts
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The Stranger - Slog | September 16, 2009
Them There Eyes
..."The Good, The Bad and The Ugly". If you haven't seen it on the big screen, you haven't seen it at all; Clint, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef glaring at each other in the hottest, driest, sandiest, sweatiest, itchiest, tensest and most...
In this article: Gloria Grahame, Robert Ryan, Odds Against Tomorrow, Intension, University of California, Los Angeles, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Shelley Winters, and Eli Wallach
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Wikipedia | September 15, 2009
Robert J. Wilke
He soon began to acquire regular character parts, mainly as a heavy, and made his mark when, along with Lee Van Cleef and Sheb Wooley, he played one of the "three men waiting at the station" in High Noon (1952). He became a prominent...
In this article: Robert J. Wilke, Internet Movie Data Base, The Magnificent Seven, Sheb Wooley, Claude Akins, James Coburn, Gunsmoke, and Laramie
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ENI News | September 03, 2009
George Lucas & Dave Filoni Talks Star Wars Clone Wars Season 2
...and Cad fits right into that mold. He's dark and mysterious, and he's pretty unscrupulous. We actually modeled him after Lee Van Cleef from The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. GEORGE LUCAS: The concept actually dates back all the way to the...
In this article: Dave Filoni, George Lucas, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Jedi, Star Wars, Eni, Republic, Cartoon Network, The Empire Strikes Back, and Star Wars
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Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. | August 15, 2009
Quint tags along with Quentin Tarantinio's INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS!!
Whenever it was that I registered that the opening scene to this movie was THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY except instead of Lee Van Cleef riding up to a small adobe house on horseback it was Christoph Waltz riding up to a small French...
In this article: Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Brad Pitt, Dirty Dozen, WW2, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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Description from Wikipedia:
Lee Van Cleef (January 9 1925 – December 16 1989) was an American film actor who appeared mostly in Western and action pictures. His sharp features and piercing eyes led to his casting as a villain in scores of films, though in later years he was often a film's protagonist, such as with his co-lead role as a bounty hunter in For a Few Dollars More.
- Name At Birth:
- Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef, Jr.
- Birth Date:
- January 09, 1925
- Birthplace:
- Somerville, New Jersey, U.S.
- Death Date:
- December 16, 1989
- Place of Death:
- Oxnard, California, U.S.
- Spouse:
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- Barbara Havelone (July 13 1976 – December 16 1989) (his death)
- Joanie (1960 – ?)
- Patsy Ruth (1943 – ?) (divorced) 3 children
- Years Active:
- 1952–1989
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