Lee Van Cleef,
Birth name	Lee Van Cleef
Born	January 9, 1925 Somerville, New Jersey, USA
Died	December 16, 1989 (aged 64) Oxnard, California, USA
Years active	1952 - 1989
Spouse(s)	Barbara Havelone (July 13, 1976 – December 16, 1989) (his death) Joanie (1960 – ?) Patsy Ruth (1943 – ?) (divorced) 3 children

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 made him an ideal "bad guy," though he was occasionally cast in a hero's role, such as a bounty hunter in For a Few Dollars More. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... 9/11 Memorial and Court House, Somerville The Old Dutch Parsonage, home of Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh and John Frelinghuysen Somerville is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area  Ranked 47th  - Total 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²)  - Width 70 miles (110 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 14. ... December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 194th day of the year (195th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Broncho Billy Anderson, from The Great Train Robbery The Western movie is one of the classic American film genres. ... For a Few Dollars More (Per qualche dollaro in piu) is a 1965 film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef. ...

Biography

Early life

Van Cleef was born in Somerville, New Jersey to Marion Lavinia Van Fleet and Clarence Leroy Van Cleef, Sr; the family's ancestry was mostly Dutch, Swedish, Belgian and English.[1] Van Cleef served in the United States Navy during World War II and became an actor after a brief career as an accountant. His first acting experiences were on stage, including a small role in the original Broadway production of Mister Roberts. His first film was the classic Western High Noon, in which he played a villain. He also had a bit part as the sharpshooter in the climax of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms around the same time. In 1956 he co-starred with Peter Graves in the B-grade Sci-Fi movie It Conquered the World. 9/11 Memorial and Court House, Somerville The Old Dutch Parsonage, home of Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh and John Frelinghuysen Somerville is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. ... USN redirects here. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Accountant, or Qualified Accountant, or Professional Accountant, is a certified accountancy and financial expert in the jurisdiction of many countries. ... Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... Mister Roberts was a novel, then a Tony Award–winning play and later, a 1955 Academy Award–nominated film, all of which are set during World War II. The title character, a naval junior-grade lieutenant stands up for his crew against the petty tyranny of the ships commanding... High Noon is a 1952 western film which tells the story of a town marshal who is forced to face a gang of killers by himself. ... The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is a black and white 1953 science fiction film directed by Eugène Lourié. The films shooting title was Monster from Beneath the Sea. ... Peter Aurness (born March 18, 1926 [1]), better known as Peter Graves, is an American actor. ... The King of the Bs, Roger Corman, produced and directed The Raven (1963) for American International Pictures. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... It Conquered the World is a 1956 science fiction film about an alien from Venus trying to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist. ...

Career

Van Cleef played different minor characters on four episodes of the TV series The Rifleman between 1959 and 1962. He played one of Lee Marvin's villainous henchmen in the 1962 John Ford classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, with James Stewart and John Wayne. He had a small, uncredited role as one of the river pirates in 1962's How the West Was Won. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. ... John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was an American film director famous for westerns such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such classic 20th century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath. ... The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a classic Western movie made in 1962, starring James Stewart, John Wayne and Lee Marvin, and directed by John Ford. ... James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his self-effacing screen persona. ... John Wayne (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning, American film actor. ... How the West Was Won is an epic 1962 western film which follows several generations of a family (starting as the Prescotts) as they move ever westward, from western New York state to the Pacific Ocean. ...

Van Cleef as The Bad (Angel Eyes) in the Good the Bad and the Ugly.

Van Cleef appeared in several Spaghetti westerns, including For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (both co-starring Clint Eastwood), as well as The Big Gundown and The Sabata Trilogy. Van Cleef also had a supporting role in John Carpenter's cult hit Escape from New York. He also appeared as a villainous swindler in the Bonanza episode, The Bloodline (December 31, 1960), along with 90 movie roles and 109 other television appearances over a 38-year span. This work is copyrighted. ... This work is copyrighted. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... For a Few Dollars More (Per qualche dollaro in piu) is a 1965 film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef. ... The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Italian: ) is a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti Western directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach in the title roles. ... Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. ... The Big Gundown (Italian title: La resa dei conti - roughly Account Rendered) is a 1966 spaghetti western directed by Sergio Sollima and starring Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian. ... Sabata is a 1969 movie by Gianfranco Parolini. ... John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, film score composer and occasional actor. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Escape from New York is a 1981 science fiction/action film directed and scored by John Carpenter. ... The Bonanza logo was superimposed upon a map of a wild west frontier area. ... is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In the early 1980s he played John Peter McCallister, the "first Occidental to become a ninja" in NBC's The Master. His last television appearance was in 1984 when he left the show The Master.^[1] Episodes of the show were later remarketed as made-for-TV movies (by editing two episodes together), two of which were featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Occidental means generally western. It is a traditional designation (especially when capitalized) for anything belonging to the Occident or West — the western part of the classical world (Europe) and the New World, and especially of its society. ... Jiraiya, ninja and title character of the Japanese folktale Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari. ... The Master (1984) is a short-lived ninja-themed action-adventure TV series created by Michael Sloan which aired on NBC. The show focused on the adventures of John Peter McAllister, an aging ninja master, (Lee Van Cleef) and his young pupil, Max Keller (Timothy Van Patten). ... “Telefilm” redirects here. ... Mystery Science Theater 3000, often abbreviated MST3K, is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc. ...

Personal life

Lee Van Cleef died from a heart attack in Oxnard, California and was interred in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. His gravestone says "Lee Van Cleef Jan 9, 1925 - Dec 16, 1989 'Best of the Bad' Love and Light". Acute myocardial infarction (AMI or MI), more commonly known as a heart attack, is a disease state that occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted. ... Nickname: Location of Oxnard, California Coordinates: , Country United States State California County Ventura County Government  - Mayor Dr. Thomas E. Holden Area  - City  36. ... Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery is located at 6300 Forest Lawn Drive in Los Angeles, California, on the south edge of the San Fernando Valley by Burbank (and on the north side of the Santa Monica Mountains from Hollywood). ...

He lost the tip of his middle finger on his right hand while building a playhouse for his daughter. This can be seen in the close-up shots of his hand during the gunfights in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and in an early scene of The Grand Duel.

Popular culture

• The revolver-toting villain "Revolver Ocelot" from the popular videogame series Metal Gear Solid is said to have been loosely based on Lee Van Cleef.^[2]
• The aging protagonist from Metal Gear Solid 4, Solid Snake is based upon Lee Van Cleef.^[3]
• In World of Warcraft, the "final boss" monster for the Deadmines instance is "Edwin Van Cleef".
• The Simpsons used a character rather like Van Cleef in their spoof of the Clint Eastwood musical (which was an adaptation of a stage show), Paint Your Wagon.
• In the Lucky Luke comic book story Chasseur de primes (Bounty hunter), the bounty hunter Elliot Belt is an easily identifiable caricature of Van Cleef.
• Van Cleef was listed as one of the dedicatees at the end of Quentin Tarantino's 2004 film Kill Bill Vol. 2.
• The villain Marshal Nathan Van Cleef in Shanghai Noon is an homage to Lee Van Cleef.
• The character "Lee Scoresby" from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy derives his first name from Lee Van Cleef, with Pullman saying the character looks just like him.
• Van Cleef had one green eye and one blue eye, but most often wore contacts. This shows one characteristic of the New Jersey Van Cleef family, who are known for this trait. (See the book "Weird New Jersey" for their article on the family for information on both him and the family from which he comes).
• Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal's 9.11 album features a track entitled Legend of Van Cleef.
• Van Cleef was briefly listed as an officer working at the SGC in the Stargate SG-1 episode Entity though this is only visible on a frame-by-frame viewing.

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Partial filmography

• The Master (1984) TV series
• Codename: Wild Geese (1984)
• Escape from New York (1981)
• The Octagon (1980)
• Kid Vengeance (1977)
• God's Gun (1976)
• Mean Frank and Crazy Tony, aka Escape From Death Row (1973)
• The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972)
• Bad Man's River (1972)
• Grand Duel (1972)
• Return of Sabata (1971)
• Captain Apache (1971)
• El Condor (1970)
• Sabata (1969)
• Beyond the Law, aka Bloodsilver (1968)
• Day of Anger (1967)
• Death Rides a Horse (1967)
• The Big Gundown (1966)
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
• For a Few Dollars More (1965)
• How the West Was Won (1962) uncredited
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
• The Bravados (1958)
• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
• High Noon (1952)

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See also

• Notable figures in Western films

References

1. ^ La mort de Lee Van Cleef, Le Monde. Mardi 19 décembre 1989, p. 17. accessed on October 7, 2006.
2. ^ Gamerz Edge interview with Ryan Rayton. Retrieved on 4 January 2007.
3. ^ MacDonald, Mark (2005). Metal Gear Solid 4 101. 1up.com. Ziff Davis Media Inc. Retrieved on 2007-01-09.

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External links

• TheBad.net: A Tribute to Lee Van Cleef
• Lee Van Cleef page
• Lee Van Cleef at the Internet Movie Database
• Lee Van Cleef at the Notable Names Database
• Lee Van Cleef's Gravesite