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Lee Marvin

Lee Marvin

Highest Rated: 100% You're in the Navy Now (1951)

Lowest Rated: 10% Not as a Stranger (1955)

Birthday: Feb 19, 1924

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Having started out portraying sadistic bad guys in a number of notable film noirs, actor Lee Marvin was propelled to stardom and leading man status following his Oscar-winning performance as two characters in the classic Western comedy "Cat Ballou" (1965). Prior to that particular triumph, Marvin began making a name for himself with supporting roles in "The Wild One' (1953) and "The Big Heat" (1953), with the latter showcasing a famed scene where his menacing character threw scalding coffee in Gloria Grahame's face. Later in the decade, he had a stint as an investigator of organized crime on the briefly popular "M Squad" (NBC, 1957-1960), which helped turn the actor into star. Following turns as a sadistic cowboy in "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955), the titular murderer in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence" (1962), and a methodical assassin in "The Killers" (1964), Marvin changed the course of his career with his Academy Award-worthy performance in "Cat Ballou." From there, Marvin portrayed characters whose inescapable use of violence was nonetheless heroic: he was an avenging member of a Western posse in "The Professionals" (1966), the leader of a squad of soldier-convicts sent on a suicide mission in "The Dirty Dozen" (1967), and a cold, vengeance-mind thief in the unrelenting crime thriller "Point Blank" (1967). His career crested with a co-starring role in the notorious Western musical "Paint Your Wagon" (1969), in which he displayed one of the worst singing voices in cinema history, before hitting a slow, downward slope throughout the 1970s with underwhelming films like "The Klansman" (1974), "Shout at the Devil" (1976) and "Avalanche Express" (1978). Marvin rebounded late in his career with two excellent movies - the gruesome World War II epic "The Big Red One" (1980) and the methodical crime thriller set in Soviet Russia, "Gorky Park" (1984), both of which helped put an exclamation point on a sterling career.

Highest rated movies

100% 74% The Comancheros
100% 78% Attack!
100% 82% Seven Men From Now
100% 35% You're in the Navy Now
97% 87% Bad Day at Black Rock
95% 92% The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 95% 87% The Caine Mutiny
94% 90% The Big Heat

Filmography

Movies

Credit
15% 50% The Delta Force Col. Nick Alexander (Character) $15.9M 1986
No Score Yet 22% Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission Maj. John Reisman (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet 48% Dog Day Jimmy Cobb (Character) - 1984
78% 59% Gorky Park Jack Osborne (Character) - 1983
17% 70% Death Hunt Millen (Character) - 1981
90% 78% The Big Red One The Sergeant (Character) - 1980
20% 13% Avalanche Express Wargrave (Character) - 1979
50% 33% Shout at the Devil Colonel Flynn O'Flynn (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet 45% The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday Sam Longwood (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet 45% The Spikes Gang Harry Spikes (Character) - 1974
22% 24% The Klansman Sheriff Track Bascomb (Character) - 1974
63% 84% Emperor of the North A No. 1 (Character) - 1973
92% 74% The Iceman Cometh Theodore "Hickey" Hickman (Character) - 1973
50% 31% Pocket Money Leonard (Character) - 1972
71% 72% Prime Cut Nick Devlin (Character) - 1972
89% 64% Monte Walsh Monte Walsh (Character) - 1970
43% 68% Paint Your Wagon Ben Rumson (Character) - 1969
67% 83% Hell in the Pacific American Pilot (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sergeant Ryker Sgt. Paul Ryker (Character) - 1968
93% 84% Point Blank Walker (Character) - 1967
82% 90% The Dirty Dozen Maj. John Reisman (Character) - 1967
90% 81% The Professionals Henry "Rico" Fardan (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet 30% The Meanest Men in the West Kalig Talbot (Character) - 1966
60% 76% Ship of Fools Tenny (Character) - 1965
90% 74% Cat Ballou Kid Shelleen/Strawn (Character) - 1965
80% 71% The Killers Charlie Strom (Character) - 1964
54% 75% Donovan's Reef "Boats" Gilhooley (Character) - 1963
95% 92% The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Liberty Valance (Character) - 1962
100% 74% The Comancheros Tully Crow (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet 14% The Missouri Traveler Tobias Brown (Character) - 1958
10% 52% Raintree County Orville "Flash" Perkins (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Pillars of the Sky Sgt. Lloyd Carracart (Character) - 1956
100% 78% Attack! Lt. Col. Clyde Bartlett, CO (Character) - 1956
100% 82% Seven Men From Now Bill Masters (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet 48% The Rack Capt. John R. Miller (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet 43% Shack Out on 101 Slob/Mr. Gregory (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 67% A Life in the Balance The Killer (Character) - 1955
10% 53% Not as a Stranger Brundage (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 60% I Died a Thousand Times Babe Kossuck (Character) - 1955
60% 42% Pete Kelly's Blues Al Gannaway (Character) - 1955
80% 67% Violent Saturday Dill (Character) - 1955
97% 87% Bad Day at Black Rock Hector David (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 28% Gorilla at Large Shaughnessy (Character) - 1954
95% 87% The Caine Mutiny Meatball (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet 62% The Raid Lt. Keating (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet 40% Seminole Sgt. Magruder (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet 20% The Stranger Wore a Gun Dan Kurth (Character) - 1953
75% 71% The Wild One Chino (Character) - 1953
94% 90% The Big Heat Vince Stone (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet 30% Gun Fury Blinky (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Glory Brigade Cpl. Bowman (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet 48% Hangman's Knot Rolph Bainter (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet 33% Eight Iron Men Sgt. Joe Mooney (Character) - 1952
100% 35% You're in the Navy Now Radio Man (Character) - 1951

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dr. Kildare Unknown (Guest Star) 1962 1964
92% 96% The Twilight Zone Steel Kelly (Character) 1961 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Combat! Unknown (Guest Star) 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Untouchables Unknown (Guest Star) 1961-1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Virginian Martin Kalig (Guest Star) 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bonanza Unknown (Guest Star) 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ben Casey Gerry Bramson (Guest Star) 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Route 66 Unknown (Guest Star) 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wagon Train Jud Benedict (Guest Star) 1960-1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet M Squad Detective Lt. Frank Ballinger (Character) 1957-1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet Climax! Unknown (Character) 1955 1957-1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet G.E. Theater Captain Morrissey (Character) 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet Suspense Unknown (Character) 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dragnet Unknown (Guest Star) 1952