1. Lee Ving played the Installer in the movie The Wild Life with Christopher Penn.
23 Facts About Lee Ving
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The Capallero family later moved to the suburbs and Lee Ving attended St Luke's Elementary School in Glenside as well as St John of the Cross in Roslyn, before graduating from Abington Senior High School.
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Lee Ving's mother taught him to play the mandolin at four years of age.
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Lee Ving began studying guitar at age eleven and later studied with musicians Jim Hall and John Abercrombie.
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Lee Ving studied with Ted Greene after moving to Los Angeles.
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Lee Ving was interested in Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, as well as the experimental New York rock group The Fugs.
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Lee Ving joined his first band while still in high school.
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In 1966 Lee Ving enlisted in the army and served stateside during the Vietnam War.
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Lee Ving joined the electric blues band Sweet Stavin Chain as a vocalist and harmonica player.
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Lee Ving is Fear's lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and harmonica player and is the only member to have remained with the band since its inception.
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Lee Ving was initially approached by the film's director, Penelope Spheeris, while he was posting concert promo flyers to telephone poles in Los Angeles.
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That same year Lee Ving formed a country band called Range War that toured California and Texas.
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Two years later Lee Ving moved with his wife and son to Austin.
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Lee Ving appeared in Dave Grohl's 2013 documentary Sound City and is a member of the supergroup Teenage Time Killers that came about due to the film.
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Lee Ving played a murderer in the horror anthology film Nightmares starring Emilio Estevez.
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Lee Ving appeared in Flashdance as the owner of a topless club who tries to convince Jennifer Beals' character to work for him.
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Lee Ving played the over-the-top punk singer named 'Piggy' in the rock-and-roll comedy Get Crazy.
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In 1987 Lee Ving appeared in the Who's the Boss episode titled "Walk on the Mild Side".
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Lee Ving played Jake McGuire, a motorcyclist bad boy who Angela dates while fulfilling a list of wild things she wanted to do while in high school.
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Also in 1987, Lee Ving reunited with director Penelope Spheeris for her film Dudes.
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Lee Ving was cast as the main antagonist, a gang leader who murders one of the protagonists, Milo, portrayed by Flea, bassist of Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Lee Ving appeared in a cameo role in the 2009 National Lampoon comedy Endless Bummer.
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Lee Ving was cast as a bartender in Death Rider in the House of Vampires, a Spaghetti Western horror film directed by Glenn Danzig released in 2021.