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