Lee Marvin is an American actor born the February 19th 1924 with New York and deceased the August 29th 1987 with Tucson, Arizona (the United States).

During the Fifties, it holds of many supporting roles in westerns and films of war. He testifies for example with the lawsuit to Ouragan on Caine . After some colourful characters like the motorcyclist of Equipped wild the , it holds during several years a role of police officer in the series M-Squad. John Ford offers to one of its most famous roles with the Man to him who killed Liberty Valance .

It obtained the Oscar of the best actor in 1965 for the role Comique of the Kid Shelleen in Cat Ballou of Elliot Silverstein.

He becomes a Star world thanks to his legendary role in The Dirty Dozen of Robert Aldrich in 1966.

Lee Marvin interpreted itself the songs in its films: Cat Ballou of Elliot Silverstein (1965), the Village fair of the west of Joshua Logan (1969)

It will turn (by high-speed motorboat) twice with John Boorman in two traditional of the history of the cinema: the Point of no return (1967) and Duel in the Pacific (1968). He will become a close friend of the Cinéaste. In 2000, 13 years after the disappearance of Lee Marvin, John Boorman (with the assistance of the last woman of the actor) will carry out one very moving documentary: Lee Marvin, a portrait.

Appear of Black film

Revealed in 1953 by Fritz Lang in the chief of work of the black film Settling of score : he interprets in a seizing way a violent and unforeseeable killer.

Marked by this role, it connects in others very large criminal films like formidable the the Unknown ones In the City of Richard Fleischer (1955) or the same year a Man passed, the traditional one of John Sturges. Let us note, another spectacular Série B: Fear With the Belly of Stuart Heilser still in 1955.

It again incarnates an unforgettable killer in With bearing end of Don Siegel in 1964. Nervous series B and forces very far away from traditional from Robert Siodmak in 1946.

It finds finally in 1967, a role summons with second film of John Boorman: mythical the the Point of no return. Ghostly and enigmatic, he is Walker. Abstract figure: he plays there a death returned (the time of a film) with the life. Boorman will say that it was a question for him of carrying out " documentary on the face of Lee Marvin".

After this top, it will not any more remain to him but to decline this mythical role on a parodic mode with: Carnage (1972) of Michael Ritchie and her remake Frenchwoman: Heat wave of Yves Boisset (1982).

Catalog of films

• 1951 : You' Re in the Navy Now , of Henry Hathaway and Lewis Seiler
• 1951: Teresa , of Fred Zinnemann
• 1952: HongKong , of Lewis R. Foster
• 1952: diplomatic Mail ( Diplomatic Courier ), of Henry Hathaway
• 1952: Five trial marriages ( We' Re Not Married! ), of Edmund Goulding
• 1952: The Duel At Silver Creek , of Gift Siegel
• 1952: Hangman' S Knot , of Roy Huggins
• 1952: Eight Iron Men , of Edward Dmytryk
• 1953: the Forwarding of strong King ( Seminole ), of Budd Boetticher
• 1953: Down Among the Sheltering Palms , of Edmund Goulding
• 1953: The Glory Brigade , of Robert D. Webb
• 1953: The Stranger Wore has Gun , of André De Toth
• 1953: Settling of score ( The Big Heat ), of Fritz Lang
• 1953: Gun Fury , of Raoul Walsh
• 1953: Equipped wild the ( The Wild One ), of László Benedek
• 1954: Broad Gorilla At , of Harmon Jones
• 1954: Hurricane on Caine ( The Caine Mutiny ), of Edward Dmytryk
• 1954: the Raid ( The Raid ), of Hugo Fregonese
• 1955: a man passed ( Bad Day At Black Rock ), of John Sturges
• 1955: the Unknown ones in the city ( Violent one Saturday ), of Richard Fleischer
• 1955: So that the men live ( Not ace has Stranger ), of Stanley Kramer
• 1955: has Life in the Balance , of Harry Horner and Rafael Portillo
• 1955: the Gang of the blues ( Pete Kelly' S Blues ), of Jack Webb
• 1955: Fear with the belly ( I Died has Thousand Times ), of Stuart Heisler
• 1955: Shack Out one 101 , of Edward Dein
• 1956: Seven Men from Now , of Budd Boetticher
• 1956: Attack! ( Attack ), of Robert Aldrich
• 1956: Pillars off the Sky , of George Marshall
• 1956: The Rack , of Arnold Laven
• 1957: the Tree of life ( Raintree County ), of Edward Dmytryk
• 1957: Mr. Squad , of Earl Bellamy and daN Cahn (series TV)
• 1958: The Missouri Traveler , of Jerry Hopper
• 1961: Comancheros ( The Comancheros ), of Michael Curtiz
• 1962: the Man who killed Liberty Valance ( The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ), of John Ford
• 1963: The Lawbreakers (series TV) (voice)
• 1963: the Tavern of the Irishman ( Donovan' S Reef ), of John Ford
• 1964: With bearing end ( The Killers ), of Gift Siegel
• 1965: Cat Ballou , of Elliot Silverstein
• 1965: the Nave of insane the ( Ship off Fools ), of Stanley Kramer
• 1966: the Professionals ( The Professionals ), of Richard Brooks
• 1967: The Meanest Men in the West , of Charles S. Dubin and Samuel Fuller (TV)
• 1967: The Dirty Dozen ( The Dirty Dozen ), of Robert Aldrich
• 1967: the , Point of no return ( Not Blank ) John Boorman
• 1968: Sergeant Ryker , of Buzz Kulik
• 1968: Duel in the Pacific ( Hell in the Pacific ), of John Boorman
• 1969: the Village fair of the west ( Paint Your Coach ), of Joshua Logan
• 1970: Assembles Walsh , of William A. Fraker
• 1972: Undesirable the ( Pocket Money ), of Stuart Rosenberg
• 1972: Premium Cut , of Michael Ritchie
• 1973: the Emperor of North ( Emperor off the North Pole ), of Robert Aldrich
• 1973: The Iceman Cometh , of John Frankenheimer
• 1974: The Spikes Gang , of Richard Fleischer
• 1974: The Klansman , of Terence Young
• 1976: Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday , of Gift Taylor
• 1976: Shout At the Devil , of Peter R. Hunt
• 1979: Avalanche Express train , of Mark Robson
• 1980: Beyond glory ( The Big Red One ), of Samuel Fuller
• 1981: Hunting with dead ( Death Hunt ), of Peter R. Hunt
• 1983: Gorky Park , of Michael Apted
• 1984: Heat wave , of Yves Boisset
• 1985: The Dirty Dozen 2 ( The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission ), of Andrew V. McLaglen (TV)
• 1986: The Delta Forces , of Menahem Golan

Anecdotes

• Jim Jarmusch is the founder of a Secret society humorous, the wire of Lee Marvin , gathering celebrities whose features of the face could let believe that they are the wire of Lee Marvin. Tom Waits, Nick Undermines, Richard Bose and John Lurie forms of it also part. The true son of Lee Marvin disapproves the existence of this organization and directly informed it Tom Waits.

External bond

• Lee Marvin on Internet Movie Database

References