
Clarence LeRoy "Lee" Van Cleef Jr. (January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989) was an American actor best known for his roles in Spaghetti Westerns such as For A Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Hatchet-faced with piercing eyes, he had declined to have his nose altered to play a sympathetic character in his film debut, High Noon, and was relegated to a non-speaking outlaw as a result. For a decade he was typecast as a minor villain, his sinister features overshadowing his acting skills. After suffering serious injuries in a car crash, Van Cleef began to lose interest in his apparently waning career by the time Sergio Leone gave him a major role in For a Few Dollars More. The film made him a box-office draw, especially in Europe. Despite suffering from heart disease from the late 1970s and having a pacemaker installed in the early 1980s, Van Cleef continued to work in films until his death on December 16, 1989, at age 64. He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Hollywood Hills, California, with an inscription on his grave marker referring to his many acting performances as a villain: "BEST OF THE BAD".

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Perry Mason

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Zorro

The Ford Television Theatre

Have Gun, Will Travel

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Dawn at Socorro

Untamed Frontier

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

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Kansas City Confidential

Princess of the Nile

The Rifleman

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The Big Combo

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Tribute to a Bad Man

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City Detective

77 Sunset Strip

Maverick

The Young Lions

Wanted: Dead or Alive

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Stories of the Century

Day of the Badman

Ride Lonesome

Gunsmoke

The Lawless Breed

Branded

Pardners

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The Desperado

Wagon Train

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Tombstone Territory

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Rails Into Laramie

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The DuPont Show with June Allyson

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Riverboat

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Tumbleweed

The Naked Street

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Cheyenne

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The Yellow Tomahawk

The Badge of Marshal Brennan

I Cover the Underworld

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Yancy Derringer

Black Saddle

Law of the Plainsman

Stagecoach West

The Lonely Man

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Machete

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Arrow In The Dust

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Ten Wanted Men

A Man Alone

The Hard Way

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Der Commander

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The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout

El Kárate, el Colt y el Impostor

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Take a Hard Ride

Code Name: Wild Geese

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Kid Vengeance

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Nowhere to Hide

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It Conquered the World

Arena

Raiders of Old California

Gun Battle at Monterey

Accused of Murder

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Bad Man's River

Speed Zone

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Last Stagecoach West

My Mother the Car

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The Slowest Gun in the West

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

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