Lee Van Cleef
Lee Van Cleef
Clarence Leroy "Lee" Van Cleef, Jr., was an American actor whose sinister features overshadowed his acting skills and typecast him as a minor villain for a decade before he achieved stardom in Spaghetti Westerns such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Hatchet-faced with piercing eyes, he declined to have his hook nose altered to play a sympathetic character in his film debut, High Noon, and was relegated to a non-speaking outlaw as a result. Van Cleef had suffered...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth9 January 1925
CountryUnited States of America
Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Audiences just naturally hate me on screen. I could play a role in a tuxedo, and people would think I was rotten. You can do much more with a villain part.
One day, something happened. It made life very precious to me.
If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.