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    Lee Van Cleef

    American actor (1925–1989)

    Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef Jr. (January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989) was an American actor. He appeared in over 170 film and television roles in a career spanning nearly 40 years, but is best known as a star of spaghetti Westerns, particularly the Sergio Leone-directed Dollars Trilogy films, For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). In 1983, he received a Golden Boot Award for his contribution to the Western spelfilm and television genre.

    Van Cleef served in the United States Navy during World War II aboard a minesweeper, earning a Bronze Star for his actions. After acting on stage in regional theatre, he made his rulle debut in the Oscar-winning Western High Noon (1952) in a non-speaking outlaw cast role. With distinctive, angular features and a taciturn screen persona, Van Cleef was typecast as minor villain and supporting player in Westerns and crime dramas.[1] After suffering serious injur

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    filmography

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    Thieves of Fortune (1990) with Michael Nouri and Liz Torres
    Speed Zone! (1989) with John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Tim Matheson, and Donna Dixon
    The Commander (1988) with Donald Pleasence and Brett Halsey
    Armed Response (1986) with David Carradine, Ross Hagen, and Dick Miller; directed by Fred Olen Ray
    Jungle Raiders (1985)
    Code Name: Wild Geese (1984) with Ernest Borgnine, Klaus Kinski, and Mimsy Farmer
    Killing Machine (1984) with Jorge Rivero, Margaux Hemingway, and Willie Aames
    Master Ninja I (1984) with Timothy Van Patten, Clu Gulager, Claude Akins, and Demi Moore; once aired on Mystery Science Theater 3000
    Master Ninja II (1984) with Timothy Van Patten and George Lazenby; once aired on Mystery Science Theater 3000
    Escape from New York (1981) with Kurt Russell, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, and Adrienne Barbeau
    The Octagon (1980) with Chuck Norris
    The Hard Way (1979) with Patrick McGoohan
    The Squeeze

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald was a genius at being wrong at times and no more so than when he wrote that there were no second acts in American lives. Leroy van Cleef Jr – better known to the world as Lee Van Cleef – had at least three acts to his life and career. A distinctive presence with a piercing stare and distinctive vulpine features, he stalked the screens for almost forty years, immediately recognizable, and in his ninety film credits he displayed a surprisingly broad range from Sci-Fi and Film Noir to classic and Spaghetti Westerns.

    Born in New Jersey, Lee went from school straight into the Navy where he served on a mine sweeper from 1942 for the duration of the war. With that little affair wrapped up, the young man moved from stage to film, having been spotted in a performance of Mister Roberts and was cast in Fred Zimmerman’s High Noon (1950) as a villainous cowboy. Although the danger of typecasting was ever present, Lee tried to appear in a variety of