“by playing an officer how I felt it should have been seen, from the bias of an enlisted man”
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Lee Marvin
Lamont Warren Marvin Jr., known as Lee Marvin, was an American film and television actor. Known for his bass voice and prematurely white hair, he is best remembered for playing hardboiled "tough guy" characters. He received various accolades including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two BAFTA Awards. He was also a decorated United States Marine during the Second World War. He was also…
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Born 19 February 1924 · Died 29 August 1987 · Q76895
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2026· 2 entries
Public attention spiked: 7,532 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.7× the usual 2,055, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Post-move cleanup, following swap of The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) and The Twilight Zone: Changed link from The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) to The Twili
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2025· 1 entry
Moviefone: Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman - Where to Watch
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2024· 1 entry
Released album “Electric Parabola”.
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2009· 1 entry
Having been with actor Dick Van Dyke since 1976
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2002· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Lee Marvin, actor, and Bob Keeshan, television's "Captain Kangaroo" were World War II veterans who fought together at Iwo Jima.” False.
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1997· 1 entry
“A revisionist history of connectionism.”
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1987· 1 entry
Died 1987-08-29.
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1986· 1 entry
Marvin made his final appearance, co-leading with Chuck Norris, in Menahem Golan's action film The Delta Force
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1985· 1 entry
Marvin acted in The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission, a television film sequel to The Dirty Dozen that picked up where his character had left off
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1984· 3 entries
Marvin acted in Michael Apted's Gorky Park, which stars William Hurt
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“I pull this job and I get trapped by farmers I have the money on me so that brings out their evil — the evil that lurks in men”
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Marvin played an American bank robber in Yves Boisset's French film Canicule
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1981· 1 entry
Marvin co-led with Charles Bronson in Peter Hunt's adventure film Death Hunt
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1980· 1 entry
Marvin's last big role was in Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One, a war film based on Fuller's own war experiences
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1979· 2 entries
Marvin co-led with Robert Shaw in Mark Robson's Cold War thriller Avalanche Express, his co-star and the director both died from heart related illness shortly after production
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Marvin was ordered to pay $104,000 to Triola for "rehabilitation purposes", but the court denied her community property claim for half of the $3
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1976· 1 entry
Marvin co-led with Roger Moore in the film Shout at the Devil, a World War I adventure, directed by Peter Hunt
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1974· 1 entry
Marvin acted in Richard Fleischer's The Spikes Gang, and in Terence Young's The Klansman in a shared top billing with Richard Burton
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1971· 1 entry
Marvin was sued by Michelle Triola, his live-in girlfriend from 1965 to 1970, who legally changed her surname to "Marvin"
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1969· 2 entries
In a 1969 Playboy interview, Marvin said he supported gay rights.
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“Form and Content in Computer Science”
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1968· 1 entry
Marvin also appeared in another Boorman film, the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful World War II character study Hell in the Pacific, also starring famed Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Cat Ballou (1966).
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1965· 2 entries
Earned Silver Bear for Cat Ballou (1965).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Cat Ballou (1965).
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1963· 1 entry
Was released theatrically as Sergeant Ryker in 1968 after the runaway success of The Dirty Dozen
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1962· 2 entries
Marvin appeared as Martin Kalig on the TV Western The Virginian in the episode titled "It Tolls for Thee
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Marvin appeared as Peter Kane on the TV Western Bonanza in the 28th episode of season 3 titled "The Crucible"
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1955· 1 entry
Was cast as Hector, the small-town hood in Bad Day at Black Rock which starred Spencer Tracy
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1954· 1 entry
Marvin was in The Raid and on TV in Center Stage, Medic and TV Reader's Digest
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1946· 1 entry
And starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner
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1944· 1 entry
While taking part in the assault on Mount Tapochau during the Battle of Saipan, in which most of his company became casualties
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1924· 1 entry
Born 1924-02-19.
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