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Lee Van Cleef
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Actor Born: January 9, 1925 in Somerville, NJ Death: December 14, 1989 in Oxnard, CA Biography:Following a wartime tour with the Navy, New Jersey-born "Lee Van Cleef" supported himself as an accountant. Like fellow accountant-turned-actor "Jack Elam", Van Cleef was advised by his clients that he had just the right satanic facial features to thrive as a movie villain. With such rare exceptions as The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1954), Van Cleef spent most of his early screen career on the wrong side of the law, menacing everyone from "Gary Cooper" ("High Noon") to the Bowery Boys ("Private Eyes") with his cold, shark-eyed stare. Van Cleef left Hollywood in the '60s to appear in European spaghetti Westerns, initially as a secondary actor; he was, for example, the "Bad" in "Clint Eastwood"'s "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1966). Within a few years, Van Cleef was starring in blood-spattered action films with such titles as "Day of Anger" (1967), "El Condor" (1970), and "Mean Frank and Crazy Tony"... Full Biography
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