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Why? Lee Van Cleef was a regular fixture during the boom-time of Western films in American cinema. After the war he worked as an office administrator, becoming involved in amateur theatrics in his spare time. He then worked as an accountant in Somerville before beginning in his movie career in 1950. He . In 1966, he was noticed by Leone, who was searching for actors with distinctive facial features to star in Italian-made Westerns. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. ACTOR LEE VAN CLEEF, 64, DIES - The Washington Post It was during one of these landings that Incredible came under heavy torpedo fire by the Germans. Lo Lieh AGE: 95 Somerset. [17] He slipped out of the limelight in his later years. Van Cleef starred as minor villains and henchmen in various Westerns, including The Tin Star and Gunfight at the O.K. He also appeared in an episode of the ABC/Warner Brothers Western series The Alaskans.[14]. I look mean without even trying. Lee Van Cleef, 64, the film actor who appeared in noted Westerns as a rugged, steely-eyed nemesis of protagonists such as Gary Cooper and Clint Eastwood, died Dec. 16 at a hospital in Oxnard, Calif., after an apparent heart attack. Edit a memorial you manage or suggest changes to the memorial manager. His mother, by some reports, was once a . Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. One of the great movie villains, Clarence Leroy Van Cleef, Jr. was born in Somerville, New Jersey, to Marion Lavinia (Van Fleet) and Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef, Sr. His parents were of Dutch ancestry. Sign up for service and obituary updates. Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive? Lee Van Cleef Net Worth | Celebrity Net Worth