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Lee Van Cleef

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Lee Van Cleef

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Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef Jr. (January 9, 1925 - December 16, 1989), commonly known as Lee Van Cleef (English: Lee Van Cleef), a famous American actor and movie star, was born on the same day as former US President Richard Nixon. IMDb praised Lee as "One of the great movie stars". villains" (the greatest villain movie star). He has performed in 91 movies and 109 TV series for 38 years. He is a prolific movie star. He was born in Somerville, New Jersey. He has starred in several classic western masterpieces. He mostly plays the villain bandit leader who is cold and silent, has excellent kung fu and wears black clothes, black pants and black hat (even if he plays the police chief, he is also a schemer for the bandit); in 1952, he starred in the first movie "Border Town Masked Man" (Kansas City Confidential) (Kansas City Confidential), famous for: "Sunday High" (1952), which also supported Jerry Cooper's second Academy Award for Best Actor; Lee's representative work is the "Dragon Trilogy" that started in 1965, and the series also made the then-unknown Clint Eastwood popular. His off-screen personality is also very good. Van Cleef passed away in December 1989 in Oxnard, California. The epitaph was engraved with "Lee Van Cleef Jan 9, 1925 - Dec 16, 1989 'Best of the Bad' Love and Light."

Category
Film & TV
Nationality
United States
Born
1925-01-09
Died
1989-12-16
Wikidata
Q193278
Occupations movie actorsoldiertelevision actoractordancerofficer
Aliases Clarence Leroy Van Cleef Jr.Lee Van CleefLee Van CleefLee Van Cleef

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