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64 Facts About Lee Marvin
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Lee Marvin was a second cousin six times removed of first US President George Washington.
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Lee Marvin's father was a direct descendant of Matthew Marvin Sr.
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Lee Marvin attended Manumit School, a Christian socialist boarding school in Pawling, New York, during the late 1930s, and Peekskill Military Academy in Peekskill, New York.
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Lee Marvin later attended St Leo College Preparatory School, a Catholic school in St Leo, Florida, after being expelled from several other schools for bad behavior.
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Lee Marvin enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on August 12,1942.
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Lee Marvin served in the 4th Marine Division as a scout sniper in the Pacific Theater during World War II, including assaults on Kwajalein, Eniwetok, and Saipan-Tinian.
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Lee Marvin was wounded in action on June 18,1944, while taking part in the assault on Mount Tapochau during the Battle of Saipan, during which most of his company became casualties.
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Lee Marvin was hit by machine gun fire, which severed his sciatic nerve, and then was hit in the foot by a sniper.
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Lee Marvin previously held the rank of Corporal but had been demoted for troublemaking.
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Lee Marvin's decorations include the Purple Heart Medal, the Presidential Unit Citation, the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, and the Combat Action Ribbon.
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Lee Marvin caught the acting bug and got a job with the company for $7 a week.
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Lee Marvin appeared on stage in a production of Uniform of Flesh, the original version of Billy Budd.
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Lee Marvin began appearing on television shows like Escape, The Big Story, and Treasury Men in Action.
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Lee Marvin made it to Broadway with a small role in a production of Uniform of Flesh, now titled Billy Budd, in February 1951.
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Lee Marvin had a similarly small part in Teresa, directed by Fred Zinnemann.
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Lee Marvin guest starred on episodes of Fireside Theatre, Suspense, and Rebound.
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Lee Marvin guest starred on Biff Baker, USA and Dragnet, and had a showcase role as the squad leader in a feature titled Eight Iron Men, a war film directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Stanley Kramer.
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Lee Marvin was a sergeant in Seminole, a Western directed by Budd Boetticher, and was a corporal in The Glory Brigade, a Korean War film.
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Lee Marvin guest starred in The Doctor, The Revlon Mirror Theater, Suspense, and The Motorola Television Hour.
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Lee Marvin was now in much demand for Westerns and starred in The Stranger Wore a Gun with Randolph Scott and Gun Fury with Rock Hudson.
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Lee Marvin received much acclaim for his portrayal of villains in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat, where he played Gloria Grahame's vicious boyfriend and The Wild One, opposite Marlon Brando, produced by Stanley Kramer.
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Lee Marvin continued in TV shows such as The Plymouth Playhouse and The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse.
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Lee Marvin had supporting roles in Gorilla at Large and had a notable small role in The Caine Mutiny, produced by Kramer, as the smart-aleck sailor Meatball.
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In 1954, Lee Marvin was in The Raid and on TV in Center Stage, Medic and TV Reader's Digest.
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Lee Marvin played a conflicted, brutal bank-robber in Violent Saturday.
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Lee Marvin played Robert Mitchum's and Frank Sinatra's friend in Not as a Stranger, a medical drama produced and directed by Stanley Kramer.
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Lee Marvin had good supporting roles in A Life in the Balance, and Pete Kelly's Blues and appeared on TV in Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre and Studio One in Hollywood.
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Lee Marvin was in I Died a Thousand Times with Jack Palance, Shack Out on 101, Kraft Theatre, and Front Row Center.
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Lee Marvin was the villain in Seven Men from Now starring Randolph Scott and directed by Boetticher.
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Lee Marvin was second-billed to Palance in Attack directed by Robert Aldrich.
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Lee Marvin had roles in Pillars of the Sky with Jeff Chandler, The Rack with Paul Newman, Raintree County with Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift and a leading role in The Missouri Traveler.
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Lee Marvin received the role after guest-starring in a Dragnet episode as a serial killer.
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Lee Marvin returned to feature films with a prominent role in The Comancheros starring John Wayne and Stuart Whitman.
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Lee Marvin played in two more films with Wayne, both directed by John Ford: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and Donovan's Reef.
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Lee Marvin did The Case Against Paul Ryker for Kraft Suspense Theatre.
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Also in 1962, Lee Marvin appeared as Peter Kane on the TV Western Bonanza in the 28th episode of season 3 titled "The Crucible".
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For director Don Siegel, Lee Marvin appeared in The Killers playing an efficient professional assassin alongside Clu Gulager, grappling with villains Ronald Reagan and Angie Dickinson.
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The Killers was the first film in which Lee Marvin received top billing.
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Lee Marvin finally became a star for his dual role in the offbeat comedic Western Cat Ballou starring Jane Fonda.
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Lee Marvin won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 15th Berlin International Film Festival in 1965.
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Lee Marvin next performed in the highly regarded Western The Professionals, in which he played the leader of a small band of skilled mercenaries rescuing a kidnap victim shortly after the Mexican Revolution.
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Lee Marvin had second billing to Lancaster but his part was almost as large.
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Lee Marvin followed that film with the hugely successful World War II epic The Dirty Dozen in which top-billed Marvin again portrayed an intrepid commander of a colorful group performing an almost impossible mission.
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Lee Marvin, who had selected Boorman for the director's slot, had a central role in the film's development, plot, and staging.
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In 1968, Lee Marvin appeared in another Boorman film, the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful World War II character study Hell in the Pacific, starring famed Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune.
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Lee Marvin was originally cast as Pike Bishop in The Wild Bunch, but fell out with director Sam Peckinpah and pulled out to star in the Western musical Paint Your Wagon, in which he was top-billed over a singing Clint Eastwood.
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Lee Marvin had a much greater variety of roles in the 1970s, with fewer 'bad-guy' roles than in earlier years.
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In 1974, Lee 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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In 1981, Lee Marvin co-led with Charles Bronson in Peter Hunt's adventure film Death Hunt.
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In 1984, Lee Marvin acted in Michael Apted's Gorky Park, which stars William Hurt.
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In 1984, Lee Marvin played an American bank robber in Yves Boisset's French film Canicule.
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In 1985, Lee 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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In 1986, Lee Marvin made his final appearance, co-leading with Chuck Norris, in Menahem Golan's action film The Delta Force.
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Lee Marvin publicly endorsed John F Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election.
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In 1971, Lee Marvin was sued by Michelle Triola, his live-in girlfriend from 1965 to 1970, who legally changed her surname to "Lee Marvin".
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Triola claimed Lee Marvin made her pregnant three times and paid for two abortions, while one pregnancy ended in miscarriage.
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Lee Marvin claimed the second abortion left her unable to bear children.
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Later there was controversy after Lee Marvin characterized the trial as a "circus", saying "everyone was lying, even I lied".
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In December 1986, Lee Marvin was hospitalized for more than two weeks because of a condition related to coccidioidomycosis.
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Lee Marvin went into respiratory distress and was administered steroids to help his breathing.
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Lee Marvin had major intestinal ruptures as a result, and underwent a colectomy.
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Lee Marvin died of a heart attack on August 29,1987, aged 63.
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Lee Marvin was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.