Lee Marvin was an American film and television actor.
60 Facts About Lee Marvin
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Lee Marvin was born in New York City to Lamont Waltman Marvin, WWI veteran of the Army Corps of Engineers and an advertising executive, and Courtenay Washington, a fashion writer.
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Lee Marvin's father was a direct descendant of Matthew Marvin Sr.
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Lee Marvin's father was abusive and his mother failed to provide the love kids need.
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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 Eniwetok and Saipan-Tinian.
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Lee Marvin was hit by machine gun fire, which severed his sciatic nerve, and then was hit again 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 at $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 similar 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 again and The Motorola Television Hour.
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Lee Marvin was now in much demand for Westerns: 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 as villains in two films: The Big Heat where he played Gloria Grahame's vicious boyfriend, directed by Fritz Lang; and The Wild One opposite Marlon Brando, produced by 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 support roles in Gorilla at Large and had a notable small role as smart-aleck sailor Meatball in The Caine Mutiny, produced by Kramer.
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Lee Marvin was in The Raid, Center Stage, Medic and TV Reader's Digest.
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Lee Marvin had a part as Hector, the small-town hood in Bad Day at Black Rock with Spencer Tracy.
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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 with Randolph Scott 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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For director Don Siegel, Lee Marvin appeared in The Killers playing an efficient professional assassin alongside Clu Gulager, grappling with villain 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 guest starred on Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre.
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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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Lee Marvin's remaining films were Death Hunt, a Canadian action movie with Charles Bronson, directed by Peter Hunt; Gorky Park with William Hurt; and Dog Day, shot in France.
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Lee Marvin publicly endorsed John F Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election.
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Lee Marvin married Pamela Feeley in 1970 following his famous relationship with Michelle Triola.
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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.