

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. (Janu– December 16, 1989), 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.


Hollywood Hills, California, United StatesĬlarence Leroy " Lee" Van Cleef, Jr. Van Cleef in Kansas City Confidential (1952)
