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Lee Van Cleef
Van Cleef in Death Rides a Horse (1967)
Born
Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef Jr.

(1925-01-09)January 9, 1925
Somerville, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedDecember 16, 1989(1989-12-16) (aged 64)
Oxnard, California, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1952–1989
Spouses
Patsy Ruth Kahle
(m. 1943; div. 1958)
Joan Marjorie Drane
(m. 1960; div. 1974)
Barbara Havelone
(m. 1976)
Children4
Military career
Service/branch US Navy
Years of service1942–1946
Rank Sonarman First Class
UnitUSS Incredible (AM-249)
Battles/warsWorld War II
  • Battle of the Caribbean
  • Operation Dragoon
Awards Bronze Star
Good Conduct Medal
American Campaign Medal
European–African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal
World War II Victory Medal
  • Golden Boot (1983)

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 Italian 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). He received a Golden Boot Award in 1983 for his contribution to the Western film and television genre.

Born and raised in Somerville, New Jersey, 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 film 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,[1] Van Cleef was typecast as minor villain and supporting player in Westerns and crime dramas. After suffering serious injuries in a car crash, Van Cleef's acting career started to decline. However, he achieved unexpected stardom when director Sergio Leone offered him the co-leading role in For a Few Dollars More. The film proved to be a huge hit and cited him as a box-office draw, largely in Europe.

Van Cleef went on to appear in films such as Leone's For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), as well as The Big Gundown (1967), Death Rides a Horse (1967), Day of Anger (1967), Beyond the Law (1968), Commandos (also 1968), Sabata (1969) and its sequel Return of Sabata (1971), Barquero (1970), El Condor (also 1970), The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972), The Grand Duel (also 1972), Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (1973), The Stranger and the Gunfighter (1974), Take a Hard Ride (1975), God's Gun (1976), The Rip-Off (1978), television film The Hard Way (1979), The Octagon (1980), and Escape from New York (1981), Code Name: Wild Geese (1984), Armed Response (1986) and Speed Zone (1989). He also played the lead role of John Peter McAllister on the martial arts television series The Master (1984).

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