Lee Van Cleef
Lee Van Cleef was born on Jan 09, 1925 in USA. Lee Van Cleef's big-screen debut came with Space Patrol - Season 2 directed by Dick Darley in 1952, strarring Lesser / Ward / Herrick / .... Lee Van Cleef is known for Escape from New York directed by John Carpenter, Kurt Russell stars as Snake Plissken and Lee Van Cleef as Hauk. The most recent award Lee Van Cleef achieved is Golden Boot Awards. The upcoming new movie Lee Van Cleef plays is Speed Zone which will be released on Apr 21, 1989.
One of the great movie villains, Clarence Leroy Van Cleef, Jr. was born in Somerville, New Jersey, to Marion Lavinia (Van Fleet) and Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef, Sr. His parents were of Dutch ancestry. Van Cleef started out as an accountant. He served in the U.S. Navy aboard minesweepers and sub chasers during World War II. After the war he worked as an office administrator, becoming involved in amateur theatrics in his spare time. An audition for a professional role led to a touring company job in "Mr. Roberts". His performance was seen by Stanley Kramer, who cast him as henchman Jack Colby in Le train sifflera trois fois (1952), a role that brought him great recognition despite the fact that he had no dialogue. For the next decade, he played a string of memorably villainous characters, primarily in westerns but also in crime dramas such as Association criminelle (1955). His hawk nose and steely, slit eyes seemed destined to keep him always in the realm of heavies, but in the mid 1960s Sergio Leone cast him as the tough but decent Col. Mortimer opposite Clint Eastwood in ...et pour quelques dollars de plus (1965). A new career as a western hero (or at least anti-hero) opened up, and Van Cleef became an international star, though in films of decreasing quality. In the 1980s, he moved easily into action and martial-arts movies and starred in L'homme au katana (1984), a TV series featuring almost non-stop martial arts action. He died of a heart attack in December 1989 and was buried at Forest Lawn in the Hollywood Hills.
Birthday
Jan 09, 1925Place of Birth
Somerville, New Jersey, USA
Known For
Awards
1 wins & 0 nominations
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