Lee Marvin

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Lee Marvin (1924-September 19, 1924-87) was an American film and television actor best known for his distinctive voice and premature white hair. Marvin began appearing in supporting roles, mainly villains, soldiers, and other difficult characters.

Detective Lieutenant Frank Ballinger's role in the NBC crime series M Squad (1957-1960) was a prominent television presence.

Marvin is best known for his lead roles as Charlie Strom in The Killers (1964), Rico Fardan in The Professionals (1966), Major John Reisman in The Dirty Dozen, Walker in Point Blank (1980), and Sergeant in The Big Red One (1980). Cat Ballou (1965), a comedy Western in which he appeared in two roles, was one of Marvin's most notable film roles.

He was named Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award, an NBR Award, and the Silver Bear for Best Actor for portraying both gunfighter Kid Shelleen and criminal Tim Strawn.

Early life

Lee Marvin was born in New York City to Lamont Waltman Marvin, a WWI soldier of Engineers and an advertising executive, as well as Courtenay Washington, a fashion writer. He was named in honor of Civil War General Robert E. Lee, who was his first cousin, four times removed, as with his elder brother, Robert. Matthew Marvin Sr., his direct descendant, emigrated from Great Bentley, Essex, England in 1635, and helped found Hartford, Connecticut. When Marvin was a kid, he played violin. His father was violent, and his mother was unable to provide the love that children need. Lee Marvin suffered from dyslexia and ADHD in childhood. Marvin spent weekends and spare time hunting deer, puma, wild turkey, and bobwhite in the wilderness of the then-uncharted Everglades as a juvenile.

During the 1930s, he attended Manumit School, a Christian socialist boarding school in Pawling, New York, and the Peekskill Military Academy in Peekskill, New York. After being banned from many other schools for disruptive conduct (smoking cigarettes and brawls), he attended St. Leo College Preparatory School, a Catholic school in St. Leo, Florida.

Personal life

Marvin was a Democrat. In the 1960 presidential election, he endorsed John F. Kennedy. Lee became anti-war aware and opposed the Vietnam War due to injuries sustained in the war, which contributed to PTSD. Marvin said in a 1969 Playboy interview that he supported gay rights.

Marvin married Betty Ebeling in February 1951 and they had four children, son Christopher Lamont, and three grandchildren, including three daughters: Courtenay Lee, Cynthia Louise, and Claudia Leslie. They divorced in January 1967 after a two-year break. Betty's book Tales of a Hollywood Housewife: A Memoir by First Mrs. Lee Marvin, Lee Marvin, discovered that Lee had an affair with actress Anne Bancroft.

Following his celebrity with Michelle Triola, he married Pamela Feeley in 1970. Pamela had four children from three previous marriages; they had no children together and remained married until his death in 1987.

Marvin was sued by Michelle Triola, his live-in girlfriend from 1965 to 1970 who legally changed her surname to "Marvin" in 1971. Although the couple never married, she requested financial assistance similar to that available to spouses under California's alimony and community property laws. Triola said Marvin made her pregnant three times and paid for two abortions, although one pregnancy resulted in miscarriage. She said she was left pregnant after her second abortion, owing to her inability to have children. The outcome was Marvin vs. Marvin, 18 Cal., in the case of "palimony" for the first time. 3d 660 (1976).

Marvin was ordered to pay $104,000 to Triola for "rehabilitation purposes," but the court dismissed her nonmarital relationship claims during six years of cohabitation, limiting marriage rights to the former only as a result of operation of law. When the parties expressly, whether or not they write, a contract for such rights exists between them, the right equivalent to community property only applies in nonmarital relationship agreements. The California Court of Appeal found that no such deal existed between them and nullified the award she had received in August 1981. Michelle Triola died of lung cancer on October 30, 2009, having worked with actor Dick Van Dyke since 1976.

After Marvin characterized the trial as a "circus," "everyone was lying, even I lied," the court later became tense." Officials made official statements regarding the possibility of charging Marvin with perplexy, but no charges were filed.

This incident was used as fodder for a mock debate skit on Saturday Night Live titled "Point Counterpoint" and "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Adam" as a skit, with Carson as Adam and Betty White as Eve.

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Acting career

Marvin was asked to replace an actor who had fallen ill during rehearsals while working as a plumber's assistant at a local community theatre in upstate New York. He caught the acting bug and began working with the company at $7 a week. He travelled to Greenwich Village and used the G.I. Bill will study at the American Theatre Wing.

Billy Budd (1949), the original version of Billy Budd (1949), appeared on stage in a Uniform of Flesh production. It was performed at the Experimental Theatre, where Marvin appeared in The Nineteenth Hole of Europe (1949).

Marvin first appeared on television shows like Escape, The Big Story, and Treasury Men in Action.

In February 1951, he made it to Broadway with a small part in a Uniform of Flesh production, now called Billy Budd.

In You're in the Navy Now (1951), directed by Henry Hathaway, Marvin's debut was in a film that also marked Charles Bronson and Jack Warden's debuts. Some filming in Hollywood was required. Marvin decided to stay in California.

He appeared in Teresa (1951), directed by Fred Zinnemann, and played a similar small part. Marvin, a veteran of war, was a natural expert at assisting the director and other actors in accurately portraying infantry movement, arranging costumes, and the use of firearms.

On episodes of Fireside Theatre, Suspense, and Rebound, he appeared as a guest actor. He appeared in Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1952), directed by Edmund Goulding, We're Not Married! (1952), also for Goulding, The Duel at Silver Creek (1952) directed by Don Siegel (1952), and Hangman's Knot (1952), directed by Roy Huggins.

He appeared on Biff Baker, Los Angeles, and Dragnet, and played a key role in an animation directed by Stanley Kramer called Eight Iron Men (1952), a war film directed by Burt Lancaster.

He was a sergeant in Seminole (1953), a Western directed by Budd Boetticher, and he served as a corporal in The Glory Brigade (1953), a Korean War film.

The Doctor, The Revlon Mirror Theatre, Suspense Again, and The Motorola Television Hour were all starring Marvin characters.

He was now in high demand for Westerns: The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953) with Randolph Scott (1953) and Gun Fury (1953) with Rock Hudson.

Marvin received much deserved praise for his role as villains in two films: The Big Heat (1953), where he appeared as Gloria Grahame's violent boyfriend, directed by Fritz Lang; and The Wild One (1953) opposite Marlon Brando (Marvin's gang, "The Beetles"), produced by Kramer.

He appeared on television shows such as The Plymouth Playhouse and The Pepsi Cola Playhouse. He appeared in Gorilla At Large (1954) and played a key part in Meatball's production as a smart-aleck sailor.

Marvin was in The Raid (1954), Center Stage, Medic, and TV Reader's Digest.

In Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) with Spencer Tracy, Hector, the little-town hood. In Violent Saturday, he appeared in 1955 as a tumultuous bank robber. "Marvin brings a multi-layered complexity to the role, giving a great example of the early promise that launched his long and fruitful career," a later-day writer wrote about the character.

In Not as a Stranger (1955), a medical drama directed by Kramer, Marvin played Robert Mitchum's friend. He appeared in A Life in the Balance (1955), Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), and Jane Wyman's Presents The Fireside Theatre and Studio One in Hollywood, as well as many other roles.

Marvin appeared in the Idied a Thousand Times (1955) with Jack Palance, Shack Out on 101 (1955), Kraft Theatre, and Front Row Center.

Marvin was the villain in 7 Men from Now (1956), directed by Boetticher, with Randolph Scott as the villain. In Attack (1956), directed by Robert Aldrich, he was second-billed to Palance.

He also guest starred on Climax!

In 100 episodes of the wildly popular 1957-1960 television series, Marvin finally got to be a leading man in M Squad as Chicago cop Frank Ballinger. One observer likened the film to "a hyped-up, aggressive Dragnet... with a hard-as-nails Marvin" playing a tough police lieutenant. Marvin appeared in a Dragnet episode as a serial murderer after guest-starring.

When the series ended, Marvin appeared on Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, The Americans, Wagon Train, Checkmate, Alcoa Premiere, Route 66, The Untouchables, The Untouchables, The Hage, The Grave, The Witnesse, and The Investigators.

Marvin returned to feature films with a leading role in The Comancheros (1961) starring John Wayne. He appeared in two more films with Wayne, both directed by John Ford: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) and Donovan's Reef (1963). Marvin played his first title role and held his own with two of the film's best actors (Wayne and James Stewart).

In 1962, Marvin appeared on the television western "It Tolls for Thee." He continued to appear on shows such as Combat!, Dr. Kildare, and The Great Adventure. He was The Case Against Paul Ryker for the Kraft Suspense Theatre.

Don Siegel, a director who appeared in The Killers (1964), a powerful career assassination team led by Clu Gulager, wrestling with villain Ronald Reagan and Angie Dickinson. The Killers was Marvin's first film in which he received top billing.

He appeared on Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as a guest.

Marvin came to fame after appearing in Jane Fonda's offbeat Western Cat Ballou (1965). This was a surprise win for Marvin, who was named Best Actor at the Academy Awards. At the 15th Berlin International Film Festival in 1965, he received the Silver Bear for Best Actor.

Marvin, alongside Vivien Leigh and Simone Signoret, received the 1966 National Board of Review Award for male actors for his role in Ship of Fools (1965) directed by Kramer, and he appeared alongside them.

Marvin revived a kidnap victim with the help of a small army of skilled mercenaries (Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, and Woody Strode) shortly after the Mexican Revolution.

He continued the film with the hugely successful World War II epic The Dirty Dozen (1967), in which top-billed Marvin once portrayed an intrepid commander of a diverse group (played by John Cassavetes, Robert Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jim Brown, and Donald Sutherland) leading an almost impossible mission. Robert Aldrich supervised. In an interview with Marvin, he said that his time in the Marine Corps inspired that role "for playing an officer how I felt it should have been seen, from the bias of an enlisted man's viewpoint."

Marvin was a big actor in the aftermath of these two films and after being given his Oscar, and he was given a lot of power over his forthcoming film Point Blank. In Point Blank, director John Boorman's most popular film, he depicted a hard-nosed criminal bent on revenge. Marvin, who had chosen Boorman for the director's role, was instrumental in the film's production, plot, and staging.

Marvin appeared in another Boorman film, The critically acclaimed but financially flop World War II character study Hell in the Pacific, starring famed Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune. Boorman discussed his time with Lee Marvin on these two films and Marvin's influence on his work as a filmmaker in 1998's Lee Marvin's Personal Portrait. Sergeant Ryker, whom Marvin shot for television in 1963, was born theatrically as Sergeant Ryker.

Pike Bishop (later played by William Holden) in The Wild Bunch (1969), but Marvin was initially cast in the Western musical Paint Your Wagon (1969), in which he was top-billed for a singing Clint Eastwood. Despite his poor singing skills, he had a hit with the song "Wand'rin' Star." He was earning $1 million per film, $200,000 less than top actor Paul Newman was making at the time, but he was still ambivalent about the film market, despite the financial rewards: he was making $200,000 less than his fellow artists Paul Newman was making at the time, and yet he was still ambivalent about it: even with the financial rewards: even as the movie business was paying him.

Marvin had a much wider range of roles in the 1970s, with less 'badguy' roles than in earlier years. Monte Walsh (1970), a Western with Palance and Jeanne Moreau, and Stuart Warner's 1971 film The Brute (1973) with Richard Buckner; The Greatest Vigor (1974) with Robert Shaw; and The Avalanche Express (1978), a Cold War thriller starring Stephen Pearson (1976) with John Moore (1978) a British adventure with George Burke (1977) with Felix Hackman (1972) with Ernest Borgnine (1974) with Richard Fleischer None of these films were huge box-office hits.

Marvin was offered the role of Quint in Jaws (1975), but he declined, saying, "What will I tell my fishing buddies who'd come off a hero against a dummy shark?"

Marvin's last big role was in Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One (1980), a war film based on Fuller's own war experiences.

Charles Bronson's death hunt (1981), a Canadian action film shot with William Hurt; Gorky Park (1983) shot in France (1984).

He did The Dirty Dozen (1985), a Marvin, Ernest Borgnine film, and Richard Jaeckel picked up where they had left off despite being 18 years older.

Chuck Norris' last appearance in The Delta Force (1986) was him, as he was dismissed by Charles Bronson.

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