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Lee Marvin

Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987) was an American actor. Known for his distinctive voice and premature white hair, Marvin initially appeared in supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers, and other hardboiled characters. A prominent television role was that of Detective Lieutenant Frank Ballinger in the crime series M Squad (195... more

Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987) was an American actor.

Known for his distinctive voice and premature white hair, Marvin initially appeared in supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers, and other hardboiled characters. A prominent television role was that of Detective Lieutenant Frank Ballinger in the crime series M Squad (1957–1960). Marvin is best remembered for his lead roles as "tough guy" characters such as Charlie Strom in The Killers (1964), Rico Fardan in The Professionals (1966), Major John Reisman in The Dirty Dozen, Walker in Point Blank (both 1967), and the Sergeant in The Big Red One (1980).

One of Marvin's more notable movie projects was Cat Ballou (1965), a comedy Western in which he played dual roles. For portraying both gunfighter Kid Shelleen and criminal Tim Strawn, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, along with a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, an NBR Award, and the Silver Bear for Best Actor.

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
(1962)
Western
A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.
Runtime:
123 min
Director:
John Ford
Cast:
John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien
8.1
94%
94
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The Dirty Dozen
(1967)
Action, Adventure, War
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
Runtime:
150 min
Director:
Robert Aldrich
Cast:
Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Donald Sutherland
7.7
80%
73
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The Big Heat
(1953)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Fritz Lang
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin
7.9
100%
N/A
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The Caine Mutiny
(1954)
Drama, War
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
Runtime:
124 min
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Cast:
Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray
7.7
92%
63
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Bad Day at Black Rock
(1955)
Drama, Thriller
One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.
Runtime:
81 min
Director:
John Sturges
Cast:
Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine
7.7
97%
N/A
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The Big Red One
(1980)
Drama, War
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror ...
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Samuel Fuller
Cast:
Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco, Kelly Ward
7.1
90%
77
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The Professionals
(1966)
Action, Adventure, Western
An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.
Runtime:
117 min
Director:
Richard Brooks
Cast:
Burt Lancaster, Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan
7.3
88%
75
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Point Blank
(1967)
Crime
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
John Boorman
Cast:
Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor, Lloyd Bochner
7.4
97%
N/A
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Cat Ballou
(1965)
Comedy, Romance, Western
A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Elliot Silverstein
Cast:
Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan, Nat King Cole
6.8
89%
60
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Gorky Park
(1983)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a conspiracy involving the highest levels of the government.
Runtime:
128 min
Director:
Michael Apted, Lauri Törhönen
Cast:
William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy, Joanna Pacula, Ian Bannen
6.7
78%
60
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The Wild One
(1953)
Drama
The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another club rolls into town.
Runtime:
79 min
Director:
László Benedek
Cast:
Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin, Timothy Carey
6.9
80%
N/A
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Paint Your Wagon
(1969)
Action, Comedy, Drama, Music, Western
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creativ...
Runtime:
164 min
Director:
Joshua Logan
Cast:
Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Jean Seberg
6.6
27%
50
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Donovan's Reef
(1963)
Adventure, Comedy, Romance
'Guns' Donovan prefers carousing with his pals Doc Dedham and 'Boats' Gilhooley, until Dedham's high-society daughter Amelia shows up in their South Seas paradise.
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
John Ford
Cast:
John Wayne, John Wayne, Elizabeth Allen, Lee Marvin, Lee Marvin
6.9
54%
64
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The Killers
(1964)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not try to get away.
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Don Siegel
Cast:
Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Clu Gulager, Claude Akins
7.0
80%
72
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Hell in the Pacific
(1968)
Drama, War
During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. Following war logic, each time the crafty Japanese devises something useful, he guards it to deny its use to the Yank, who then steals it, its proceeds or the idea and/...
Runtime:
103 min
7.4
N/A
N/A
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The Delta Force
(1986)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.
Runtime:
129 min
Director:
Menahem Golan
Cast:
Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Shelley Winters, Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop
5.6
17%
37
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The Comancheros
(1961)
Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Michael Curtiz
Cast:
John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, Nehemiah Persoff, Lee Marvin
6.9
100%
N/A
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Death Hunt
(1981)
Action, Adventure, Western
Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains, buys a dog almost dead after a brutal dogfight, a good deed that will put him in trouble.
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Peter R. Hunt
Cast:
Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Andrew Stevens, Carl Weathers, Ed Lauter
7.0
17%
N/A
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Emperor of the North
(1973)
Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.
Runtime:
118 min
Director:
Robert Aldrich
Cast:
Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine, Charles Tyner, Malcolm Atterbury
7.4
80%
N/A
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Attack
(1956)
Drama, War
Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must establish artillery observation posts in a strategic area, has serious doubts about Captain Cooney's leadership ability.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Robert Aldrich
Cast:
Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin, Robert Strauss, Richard Jaeckel
7.5
100%
N/A
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Ship of Fools
(1965)
Drama, Romance, War
Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's Dr. Schumann, who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Condesa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David. Jenny is fascinated and puzzled by just who...
Runtime:
149 min
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Cast:
Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner
7.2
81%
N/A
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7 Men from Now
(1956)
Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Aging lawman Ben Stride burns a trail of murderous revenge across a hardscrabble landscape searching for his wife's murderers.
Runtime:
78 min
Director:
Budd Boetticher
Cast:
Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin, Walter Reed, John Larch
7.5
100%
N/A
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Prime Cut
(1972)
Action, Crime, Drama
A group of Chicago mob ruthless enforcers are sent to Kansas City to settle things with the owner of a slaughterhouse who has taken money that is not his to keep.
Runtime:
84 min
Director:
Michael Ritchie
Cast:
Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Angel Tompkins, Gregory Walcott, Sissy Spacek
6.8
70%
N/A
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Raintree County
(1957)
Drama, Romance
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.
Runtime:
168 min
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Cast:
Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick, Lee Marvin
6.4
11%
N/A
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Monte Walsh
(1970)
Western
Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. New work opportunities are available to them, but the freedom of the open prarie is what they long for. Eventually, they all mus...
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
William A. Fraker
Cast:
Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Palance, Mitchell Ryan, Jim Davis
7.1
100%
N/A
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We're Not Married!
(1952)
Comedy, Romance
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.
Runtime:
86 min
Director:
Edmund Goulding
Cast:
Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Victor Moore, Fred Allen, Fred Allen
6.4
40%
N/A
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Shout at the Devil
(1976)
Adventure
During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. The story is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith, which in turn is very loosely based on events involving the light cruise...
Runtime:
147 min
Director:
Peter R. Hunt
Cast:
Lee Marvin, Роджер Мур, Barbara Parkins, Ian Holm, Reinhard Kolldehoff
6.3
60%
N/A
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Violent Saturday
(1955)
Crime, Drama
Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Richard Fleischer
Cast:
Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally, Virginia Leith, Tommy Noonan
6.9
80%
N/A
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The Iceman Cometh
(1973)
Drama
Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props everyone up with free drinks and spirited stories of his travels. However, when Hickey does show up this year, it is with a message of temperance and an exhortation to give up hopeless d...
Runtime:
239 min
Director:
John Frankenheimer
Cast:
Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan, Bradford Dillman, Sorrell Booke
7.4
88%
N/A
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Not as a Stranger
(1955)
Drama, Romance
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows...
Runtime:
135 min
6.8
N/A
N/A
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Diplomatic Courier
(1952)
Action
Cold War yarn about a US State Department courier who tangles with Soviet agents and seductive women in post WW2 Europe.
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Henry Hathaway
Cast:
Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Hildegard Knef, Karl Malden, Stephen McNally
6.9
N/A
N/A
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The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
(1976)
Comedy, Western
Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who ran off with all the gold from a mine they were prospecting fifteen years earlier. He tells his other partners from that time, Joe Knox and Billy, and they confront Colby demanding not only the thousand dollars he took but an addition fi...
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Don Taylor
Cast:
Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed, Robert Culp, Kay Lenz, Elizabeth Ashley
6.7
N/A
N/A
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Hangman's Knot
(1952)
Action, Western
In 1865, a troop of Confederate soldiers led by Major Matt Stewart attack the wagon of gold escorted by Union cavalry and the soldiers are killed. The only wounded survivor tells that the war ended one month ago, and the group decides to take the gold and meet their liaison that knew that the war ended but did not inform the troop. The...
Runtime:
81 min
Director:
Roy Huggins
Cast:
Randolph Scott, Donna Reed, Lee Marvin, Frank Faylen, Claude Jarman Jr.
6.8
N/A
N/A
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Pete Kelly's Blues
(1955)
Crime, Drama, Music
In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Jack Webb
Cast:
Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien, Peggy Lee, Andy Devine
6.5
N/A
N/A
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The Duel at Silver Creek
(1952)
Action, Western
A gang of claim jumpers is infesting the territory, gaining ownership of undermanned mining operations through extortion...and leaving no live witnesses. But one victim, quick-drawing gambler Luke Cromwell, escapes. Meanwhille, Marshal Lightnin' Tyrone is also after the gang; recovering from one raid, he meets femme fatale Opal Lacy, w...
Runtime:
77 min
Director:
Don Siegel
Cast:
Audie Murphy, Faith Domergue, Stephen McNally, Susan Cabot, Gerald Mohr
6.4
N/A
N/A
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The Spikes Gang
(1974)
Action, Western
After escaping home, three young friends form a dynamic alliance of untamed youth. They meet an old man named Spikes with the experience only a master gunfighter can offer. The gang of men go on a crime spree and are converted to outlaws with a price on their heads.
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Richard Fleischer
Cast:
Lee Marvin, Gary Grimes, Ron Howard, Charles Martin Smith, Arthur Hunnicutt
6.4
N/A
N/A
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Gun Fury
(1953)
Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance, Western
After a stagecoach holdup, Frank Slayton's notorious gang leave Ben Warren for dead and head off with his fiancée. Warren follows, and although none of the townspeople he comes across are prepared to help, he recruits two others who have sworn revenge on the ruthless Slayton.
Runtime:
83 min
Director:
Raoul Walsh
Cast:
Rock Hudson, Donna Reed, Lee Marvin, Philip Carey, Roberta Haynes
6.1
N/A
N/A
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The Raid
(1954)
War, Western
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.
Runtime:
83 min
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Pocket Money
(1972)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Western
Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher.
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Stuart Rosenberg
Cast:
Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin
5.5
67%
N/A
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I Died a Thousand Times
(1955)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
Stuart Heisler
Cast:
Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lee Marvin, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez
6.4
N/A
N/A