Lee Marvin
Birthday: 1924-02-19
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987) was an American actor. Known for his distinctive voice and premature white hair, Marvin initially appeared in supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers, and other hardboiled characters. A prominent television role was that of Detective Lieutenant Frank Ballinger in the crime series M Squad (1957–1960). Marvin is best remembered for his lead roles as "tough guy" characters such as Charlie Strom in The Killers (1964), Rico Fardan in The Professionals (1966), Major John Reisman in The Dirty Dozen, Walker in Point Blank (both 1967), and the Sergeant in The Big Red One (1980). One of Marvin's more notable movie projects was Cat Ballou (1965), a comedy Western in which he played dual roles. For portraying both gunfighter Kid Shelleen and criminal Tim Strawn, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, along with a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, an NBR Award, and the Silver Bear for Best Actor.
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Avalanche Express
CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting t...
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The Caine Mutiny
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first office...
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The Dirty Dozen
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy châtea...
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Diplomatic Courier
During the Cold War, diplomatic courier Mike Kells must retrieve a dispatch containing top-secret in...
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Paint Your Wagon
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventur...
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Ship of Fools
Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that...
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The Comancheros
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisone...
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Cat Ballou
A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from ...
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a sma...
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We're Not Married!
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later...
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The Professionals
An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious M...
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The Killers
A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not...
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Down Among the Sheltering Palms
War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and ar...
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Emperor of the North
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free....
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Hell in the Pacific
During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves...
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Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
A featurette documentary that looks into the making of "The Dirty Dozen," containing interviews wit...
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Gorky Park
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but find...
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You're in the Navy Now
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experim...
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The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
In this tribute to her frequent co-star and longtime love, Katharine Hepburn hosts a behind-the-scen...
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Attack
Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must esta...
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Teresa
An Italian war bride has problems dealing with her husband's possessive mother....
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Death Hunt
Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains, ...
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Seven Men from Now
A former sheriff relentlessly pursuing the 7 men who murdered his wife in Arizona crosses paths with...
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Point Blank
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to...
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Prime Cut
A group of ruthless Chicago mob enforcers are sent to Kansas City to settle things with the owner of...
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Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
Peter Whitehead’s disjointed Swinging London documentary, subtitled “A Pop Concerto,” comprises a nu...
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The Wild One
The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise...
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I Died a Thousand Times
After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before reti...
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The Iceman Cometh
Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the...
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The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to e...
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Bad Day at Black Rock
One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. O...
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The Big Heat
After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law in...
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Pete Kelly's Blues
In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy unt...
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Shack Out on 101
A greasy spoon diner provides a base for a spy smuggling nuclear secrets....
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The Duel at Silver Creek
When a gang of ruthless claim jumpers brutally murders his miner father, a gunman known as the Silve...
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Gun Fury
After a stagecoach holdup, Frank Slayton's notorious gang leave Ben Warren for dead and head off wit...
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The Stranger Wore a Gun
Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wante...
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Donovan's Reef
After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the hei...
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The Spikes Gang
Three teenage farm boys stumble upon Harry Spikes, a local bandit wounded in a gun battle. While Har...
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The Delta Force
A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Leba...
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The Big Red One
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the surviv...
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Seminole
Lance Caldwell, a cavalry lieutenant, recounts his efforts to make peace with the Seminole Indian tr...
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Pocket Money
Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy and his buddy get mixed up in some shady dealings with...
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Pillars of the Sky
First Sergeant Emmett Bell faces off with Apache chieftain Kamiakin in this nuanced portrayal of rac...
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Violent Saturday
Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, whi...
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Raintree County
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted fr...
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Shout at the Devil
During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive...
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The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who ...
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Monte Walsh
Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railw...
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Gorilla at Large
At a carnival called the Garden of Evil, a man is murdered, apparently by a gorilla...or someone in ...
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Hangman's Knot
In 1865, a troop of Confederate soldiers led by Major Matt Stewart attack the wagon of gold escorted...
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The Rack
Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In ...
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The Raid
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the smal...
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips....
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Not as a Stranger
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He cour...
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The Glory Brigade
During the Korean War Lt. Sam Pryor volunteers his platoon to escort Greek troops to perform a recon...
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Dog Day
A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his poss...
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The Klansman
A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young white woman has been raped by a bla...
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A Life in the Balance
A widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City....
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The Meanest Men in the West
Bronson and Marvin star as murderous half-brothers who are running from the law as well as each othe...
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Eight Iron Men
During the World War II in Italy, Sergeant Joe Mooney is leading his small squad on the front-lines ...
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The Rock
A promotional two-part short for John Boorman's "Point Blank" shot on and around Alcatraz. Lee Marv...
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The Missouri Traveler
Byron Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum, receives a ride into the rural...
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The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth
7-part documentary on John Ford's 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' ] Changing of the Guard The I...
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Operation Dirty Dozen
A short film looking behind the scenes at the making of The Dirty Dozen. Showing many scenes being f...
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Sergeant Ryker
During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then return...
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Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career ...
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The Big Red One: The Reconstruction
A re-working, re-editing, and restructuring of Sam Fuller's The Big Red One bringing it closer as or...
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The Losers
A couple of hard-drinking cardsharp drifters find themselves in the unlikely situation of having to ...
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Combat Leadership: The Ultimate Challenge
Actor and WWII veteran Lee Marvin narrates this USMC training film on combat leadership....
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Sam Fuller & the Big Red One
A documentary shot during the production of Samuel Fuller's film The Big Red One....
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Our Time In Hell
An hour long documentary on the war in the Pacific. Using Marine Corps color footage, the only foota...
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Lionpower from MGM
"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's rel...
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Autumn and Cardboard
"This film uses the 1966 California gubernatorial race between Republican Ronald Reagan and Democrat...
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film compa...
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