Lee Van Cleef
Highest Rated:
100%
I Giorni dell'ira (Blood and Grit) (Day of Anger) (Gunlaw) (Days of Wrath) (1967)
Birthday:
Birthplace:
Somerville, New Jersey, USA
Following a wartime tour with the Navy, New Jersey-born Lee Van Cleef supported himself as an accountant. Like fellow accountant-turned-actor Jack Elam, Van Cleef was advised by his clients that he had just the right satanic facial features to thrive as a movie villain. With such rare exceptions as The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1954), Van Cleef spent most of his early screen career on the wrong side of the law, menacing everyone from Gary Cooper (High Noon) to the Bowery Boys (Private Eyes) with his cold, shark-eyed stare. Van Cleef left Hollywood in the '60s to appear in European spaghetti Westerns, initially as a secondary actor; he was, for example, the "Bad" in Clint Eastwood's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). Within a few years, Van Cleef was starring in blood-spattered action films with such titles as Day of Anger (1967), El Condor (1970), and Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (1975). The actor was, for many years, one of the international film scene's biggest box-office draws. Returning to Hollywood in the late '70s, He starred in a very short-lived martial arts TV series The Master (1984), the pilot episodes of which were pieced together into an ersatz feature film for video rental. Van Cleef died of a heart attack in 1989.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Code Name Wild Geese |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | The Heist |
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— | 1989 |
0% | Speed Zone |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Thieves of Fortune |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Der Commander |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Armed Response |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Kommando Leopard (Commando Leopard) |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | Jungle Raiders |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | Killing Machine |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | Geheimcode: Wildgänse (Code Name: Wild Geese) |
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— | 1984 |
86% | Escape from New York |
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— | 1981 |
33% | The Octagon |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | The Hard Way |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | The Squeeze (The Rip-Off) |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Crime Boss |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Take a Hard Ride (Kid Vengeance) |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | God's Gun (A Bullet from God) (Diamante Lobo) |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Kid Vengeance |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | The Perfect Killer |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Nowhere to Hide |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Mean Johnny Barrows |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Mean Frank and Crazy Tony |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | El kárate, el Colt y el impostor (Blood Money) |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | Bad Man's River |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | Escape from Death Row |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | The Grand Duel (Il Grande duello) |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Return of Sabata |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | The Magnificent Seven Ride! |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Crime Boss |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Storm Rider |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Captain Apache (The Guns of April Morning) (Deathwork) |
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— | 1971 |
No Score Yet | Indio Black, sai che ti dico: Sei un gran figlio di..(Adios Sabata) |
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— | 1971 |
No Score Yet | Deserter |
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— | 1971 |
No Score Yet | Hunt the Man Down (Bad Man's River) |
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— | 1971 |
No Score Yet | El Condor |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | Barquero |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | Ehi amico... c'è Sabata, hai chiuso! (Sabata) |
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— | 1969 |
No Score Yet | Beyond The Law |
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— | 1968 |
No Score Yet | Commandos |
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— | 1968 |
100% | I Giorni dell'ira (Blood and Grit) (Day of Anger) (Gunlaw) (Days of Wrath) |
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— | 1967 |
40% | Da uomo a uomo (Death Rides A Horse) (As Man to Man) |
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— | 1967 |
97% | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
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— | 1966 |
No Score Yet | The Big Gundown |
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— | 1966 |
92% | For a Few Dollars More (Per Qualche Dollaro in Più) |
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— | 1965 |
86% | How the West Was Won |
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— | 1963 |
94% | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
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— | 1962 |
No Score Yet | Posse from Hell |
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— | 1961 |
No Score Yet | The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery |
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— | 1959 |
86% | Ride Lonesome |
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— | 1959 |
No Score Yet | Guns, Girls & Gangsters |
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— | 1959 |
71% | The Young Lions |
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— | 1958 |
100% | The Bravados |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | The Lonely Man |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | The Badge of Marshal Brennan |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | China Gate |
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— | 1957 |
83% | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral |
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— | 1957 |
83% | The Tin Star |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Raiders of Old California |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Pardners |
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— | 1956 |
80% | It Conquered the World |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Tribute to a Bad Man |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | The Conqueror |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Accused of Murder |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | A Man Alone |
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— | 1955 |
93% | The Big Combo |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Ten Wanted Men |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Treasure of Ruby Hills |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Dawn at Socorro |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | The Yellow Tomahawk |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | Arrow in the Dust |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | Gypsy Colt |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | The Nebraskan |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Tumbleweed |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Arena |
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— | 1953 |
95% | The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | The Lawless Breed |
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— | 1953 |
86% | Kansas City Confidential (The Secret Four) |
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— | 1952 |
97% | High Noon |
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— | 1952 |
17% | Untamed Frontier |
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— | 1952 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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No Score Yet |
The Andy Griffith Show
1960-1968
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No Score Yet |
Rawhide
1959-1965
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No Score Yet |
Perry Mason
1957-1966
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No Score Yet |
Maverick
1957-1962
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82% |
The Twilight Zone
1959-1964
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No Score Yet |
Bonanza
1959-1973
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No Score Yet |
Zorro
1957-1961
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Quotes from Lee Van Cleef's Characters
Col. Douglas Mortimer: | This Train Will Stop At Tucumcari! |
Col. Douglas Mortimer: | This train will stop in Tucumcari. |
The Man With No Name: | [counting reward sums of outlaws he just killed] Ten thousand... twelve thousand... fifteen... sixteen... seventeen... twenty-two. Twenty-two? [a cowboy comes from behind, Monco turns and shoots him dead] ...Twenty-seven. |
Col. Douglas Mortimer: | Any trouble, boy? |
The Man With No Name: | No, old man. Thought I was having trouble with my adding. It's all right now. |
Bob Hauk: | There was an accident. About an hour ago, a small jet went down inside New York City. The President was on board. |
Snake Plissken: | The president of what? |
Bob Hauk: | We'd make one hell of a team Snake |
Bob Hauk: | We'd make one hell of a team Snake. |
Snake Plissken: | It's Plissken |
Snake Plissken: | It's Plissken. |
Snake Plissken: | The name's Plissken. |
The Bad: | People with ropes around their necks don't always hang. Even a filthy beggar like that has a protecting angel. A golden-haired angel watches over him. |
Bob Hauk: | You going to kill me, Snake? |
Snake Plissken: | Not now, I'm too tired. [pause] Maybe later. |
Bob Hauk: | Remember, once you're inside you're on your own. |
Snake Plissken: | Oh, you mean I can't count on you? |
Bob Hauk: | No. |
Snake Plissken: | Good! |
Bob Hauk: | Plissken? Plissken, what are you doing? |
Snake Plissken: | Playing with myself! I'm going in. |
Bob Hauk: | I'm not a fool, Plissken! |
Snake Plissken: | Call me "Snake." |
Snake Plissken: | Call me 'Snake.' |
The Good: | [counting The Bad's men] One, two, three, four, five, and six. Six, the perfect number. |
The Bad: | I thought three was the perfect number. |
The Good: | I've got six more bullets in my gun. |
The Bad: | Even a filthy beggar like that has got a protecting angel. [Referencing Tuco] |
The Bad: | Oh I almost forgot. He payed me a thousand. I think his idea was that I kill you. [Laugh] But you know the pity is when I'm paid, I always follow my job through. You know that. |
The Bad: | Oh I almost forgot. He payed me a thousand. I think his idea was that I kill you. [Laugh] But you know the pity is when I'm paid, I always follow my job through. You know that. |