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Lee Van Cleef
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| Mostly Credited As: | Lee Van Cleef |
| Birth Name: | Clarence Leroy Van Cleef, Jr. |
| Date Of Birth: | January 09, 1925 |
| Country Of Birth: |  USA |
| Birth Place: | Somerville, New Jersey |
| Date Of Death: | December 16, 1989 |
| Cause Of Death: | Heart Attack |
Van Cleef's natural acting talent got him noticed by famed director Stanley Kramer. He cast the young actor as the villainous Jack Colby in High Noon (1952). His success in this role and other westerns typecast him; throughout the 1950s, Van Cleef usually portrayed the bad guy.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Van Cleef worked steadily in Europe. When the spaghetti western craze died down, he returned to Hollywood, remarried once more, and continued acting in films, mostly low-budget affairs. At the age of 59, Van Cleef took the starring role in the short-lived NBC series The Master, which was canceled after just 13 episodes.
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Van Cleef was of Dutch ancestry.
| Reportedly faster on the draw than spaghetti western co-star Clint Eastwood.
| Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and later worked as an accountant before taking up acting.
| First major acting role was as a seaman in the road company production of the hit Broadway play Mister Roberts.
| Van Cleef hailed from a farming family in rural New Jersey.
| Lost the tip of his right hand middle finger while building a playhouse for his daughter.
| Had one green eye and one blue eye but wore contact lenses to cover up this discrepancy.
| Once recorded a country song entitled If All I Ever Do.
| Parents' names were Clarence Leroy and Marion Lavinia Van Cleef.
| Had three children from his first marriage.
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Van Cleef: Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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