Lee Marvin

Lee Marvin

If you know more information about Lee Marvin help us to improve this page
Birthday: 
19 February 1924, New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name: 
Lamont Waltman Marvin Jr
Height: 
187 cm
Prematurely white-haired character star who began as a supporting player of generally vicious demeanor, then metamorphosed into a star of both action and drama projects, Lee Marvin was born in New York City, the son of Courtenay Washington (Davidge), a fashion writer, and Lamont Waltman Marvin, an advertising executive. The young Marvin was thrown ... Show more »
Prematurely white-haired character star who began as a supporting player of generally vicious demeanor, then metamorphosed into a star of both action and drama projects, Lee Marvin was born in New York City, the son of Courtenay Washington (Davidge), a fashion writer, and Lamont Waltman Marvin, an advertising executive. The young Marvin was thrown out of dozens of schools for incorrigibility. His parents took him to Florida, where he attended St. Leo's Preparatory School near Dade City. Dismissed there as well, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps at the beginning of World War II. In the battle of Saipan in June 1944, he was wounded in the buttocks by Japanese fire which severed his sciatic nerve. He received a medical discharge and got menial work as a plumber's apprentice in Woodstock, NY. While repairing a toilet at the local community theater, he was asked to replace an ailing actor in a rehearsal. He was immediately stricken with a love for the theater and went to New York City, where he studied and played small roles in stock and Off-Broadway. He landed an extra role in Henry Hathaway's You're in the Navy Now (1951), and found his role expanded when Hathaway took a liking to him. Returning to the stage, he made his Broadway debut in "Billy Budd", and after a succession of small TV roles, moved to Hollywood, where he began playing heavies and cops in roles of increasing size and frequency. Given a leading role in Eight Iron Men (1952), he followed it with enormously memorable heavies in The Big Heat (1953) and The Wild One (1953). Now established as a major screen villain, Marvin began shifting toward leading roles with a successful run as a police detective in the TV series M Squad (1957). A surprise Oscar for his dual role as a drunken gunfighter and his evil, noseless brother in the western comedy Cat Ballou (1965) placed him in the upper tiers of Hollywood leading men, and he filled out his career with predominantly action-oriented films. A long-term romantic relationship with Michelle Triola led, after their breakup, to a highly publicized lawsuit in which Triola asked for a substantial portion of Marvin's assets. Her case failed in its main pursuit, but did establish a legal precedent for the rights of unmarried cohabitors, the so-called "palimony" law. Marvin continued making films of varying quality, always as a star, until his sudden death from a heart attack in 1987. Show less «

Lee Marvin's FILMOGRAPHY

The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh

HD

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild Untold Story of Cannon Films

HD

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

HD

Married With Children - Season 7

EPS26

The Delta Force

HD

The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission

SD

Gorky Park

HD

Death Hunt

HD

The Big Red One

HD

Avalanche Express

HD

Shout at the Devil

HD

The Klansman

HD

The Iceman Cometh

HD

Emperor of the North

HD

Bonanza - Season 14

EPS16

Prime Cut

HD

Pocket Money

HD

Bonanza - Season 13

EPS25

Bonanza - Season 12

EPS28

Monte Walsh

HD

Bonanza - Season 11

EPS28

Paint Your Wagon

SD

Bonanza - Season 10

EPS30

NEXT PAGE

Example Example Example
HD
Country:
Genre:

Lee Marvin'S roles

Vince Stone
Vince Stone
Jack Osborne
Jack Osborne
Tenny
Tenny
Col. Nick Alexander
Col. Nick Alexander
The Sergeant
The Sergeant
Liberty Valance
Liberty Valance
Maj. John Reisman
Maj. John Reisman
Tully Crow
Tully Crow
Walker
Walker
Hector David
Hector David