[ Vedette ] Lee Van Cleef

[Rex Lee]

Acteur américain. 1925-1989




Et pour quelques dollars de plus



Le bon, la brute et le truand





La mort était au rendez-vous



Le dernier jour de la colère




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Pas de pitié pour les salopards





El Condor



Captain Apache



Le retour de Sabata



Les 4 mercenaires d'El Paso

Le grand duel
La brute, le colt et le karaté
La chevauchée terrible
Les impitoyables ( God's gun )
Les cavaliers du Diable

[JO]

En 1967, sur le set de Pas de pitié pour les salopards, et sur un plateau de télévision italien :


Merci à Sabata, qui a mis l'information sur le Spaghetti Western Web Board.

[JO]

Jean-Claude Missiaen a recontré Lee van Cleef pour Cinémonde... (deux pages avec photographies); quel dommage que l'auteur n'intervienne ici....

Les témoins de première source sont rares...

[Richards]

Un petit aperçu de la carrière américaine de Lee Van Cleef...avant Leone:

[Trinita]

Une photo hors western


L'excellent film The Big Combo.

[Rex Lee]

Bonne idée que d'évoquer ici la carrière américaine du grand Lee. Il fut un sacré second couteau: du Train sifflera trois fois à La conquête de l'Ouest, dix années au second plan..



Bravados (1958)



Deux films dans lesquels il tient un rôle important, tous deux de 1959:



La chevauchée de la vengeance






Guns, Girls and Gangsters

[Richards]

La partie de ping-pong continue:

Retour aux States pour 2 films en vedette:



Barquero, en 1970.


La Chevauchée des 7 Mercenaires, en 1971.

[Richards]

Qui est le dessinateur? Je trouve que c'est pas mal du tout.

[Richards]

Dix hommes à abattre - 1955 - Bruce Humberstone -

[Rex Lee]

Dans son troisième film, en 1952, l'année de ses débuts au cinéma, juste après Le Train sifflera trois fois et Passage interdit:







Kansas City Confidential / Le Quatrième homme

C'est un rôle important qui aurait pu lancer sa carrière en Amérique. Au lieu de cela, les vaches(plus ou moins) maigres 10 années durant, avec de temps à autre, un rôle marquant, comme dans Bravados.

Tant mieux pour nous car Mortimer, Sentenza, Colorado et Sabata auraient eu les traits de quelqu'un d'autre...ou n'auraient pas existé.

[Rex Lee]

Le Train sifflera trois fois (1952)






Passage interdit (1952)






Qui est le traitre? (1953)





Association criminelle (1955)






The Quiet Gun (1957)





Crépuscule sanglant (1956)





La Hache sanglante (1954)






L'Ultime chevauchée (1957)




Règlement de comptes à O.K. Corral (1957)





Le Bal des Maudits (1958)

à suivre...

[Rex Lee]

Du sang dans le désert (1957)






La Journée des violents (1958)






Le Trouillard du Far West (1956)





Les Cavaliers de l'enfer (1961)






L'Homme qui tua Liberty Valance (1962)





La Conquête de l'Ouest (1962)





Un épisode de la série TV Cheyenne (1959)



à suivre

[Sitting Bull]

Petite contribution.

[Rex Lee]

Merci pour la contribution, Sitting Bull.

Retour sur sa carrière italienne pour rappeler qu'il est la vedette de 2 très bons film:





Commandos (1968)







L'Homme aux nerfs d'acier (1973)

[higgins]

tiens merci
je vais essayer de voir ça cet été du coup

une critique chez un collègue
http://wild-wild-western.over-blog.com/article-l-homme-aux-nerfs-d-acier-1973-51660097.html
http://wild-wild-western.over-blog.com/article-commandos-1968-62808510.html
en vo

[Rex Lee]

La Mort était au rendez-vous










El Condor




Les 4 mercenaires d' El Paso: James Mason / Gina Lollobrigida / Lee Van Cleef / Simon Andreu / Gianni Garko / Diana Lorys

(Documents trouvés sur ebay et sur The bad.net)

[Rex Lee]

1962: pause durant le tournage de L'Homme qui tua Liberty Valance.

[Rex Lee]

1972

[Trinita]

Un de mes Lucky Luke préféré !!!

[Rex Lee]

Dans quelques épisodes de séries TV:



Zorro (1958)





Au nom de la loi (1959)





Cheyenne (1959)






Les Incorruptibles (1960)




L'Homme à la carabine (4 épisodes entre 1959 et 1962)





Rawhide (1964)

[Tom Betts]

Variety
December 20, 1989

   Lee Van Cleef, character actor/star, dead at 64
   By LAWRENCE COHN

   Hollywood - Lee Van Cleef, 64, character actor who made an indelible impression as a tough villain in numerous Westerns and gangster films before becoming an international star in Italian Westerns in the 1960s, died Dec. 14 in Oxnard, Calif. of an apparent heart attack.

   Born Jan. 9, 1925 in Somerville, N.J. of Dutch ancestry, he worked at odd jobs following service in the navy during World War II. After appearing in amateur stage productions in New Jersey of ''Our Town'' and ''Heaven Can Wait", he landed a role in the road company of ''Mr. Roberts'' in 1951.

   Stanley Kramer saw him in the play and cast Van Cleef in his film production 'High Noon," directed by Fred Zinnemann. Van Cleef played a small but attention-getting role as one of the four gunslingers catching a train to have a showdown with sheriff Gary Cooper in the 1952 classic, which set the course the the young actor's screen career as a villain.

   Yet is was another 1952 film, Phil Karlson's excellent gangster picture ''Kansas City Confidential,'' that eventually led to Van Cleef's belated breakthrough over a decade later. He played one of a trio of ruthless henchmen (opposite Neville Brand and Jack Elam) in the John Payne-starrer that greatly impressed a young Italian assistant director. Sergio Leone.

   Apart from American Westerns, "Kansas City'' had the greatest influence in the style and structure of Leone's breakthrough Italian Westerns in the mid-'60s and he cast Van Cleef in two of them opposite Clint Eastwood, ''For A Few Dollars More'' and ''The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.''
   It was a long trek until stardom, however, as he played supporting roles in over 40 feature films in just five years after his "High Noon" debut.

   Roger Corman cast Van Cleef in his first leading role in 1956 in the well-remembered sci-fi picture '"It Conquered The World'' in which he had a chance to play a misguided good guy for a change, duped by a monster from Venus.
   Van Cleef immediately returned to supporting roles, usually as a heavy, in such features as the Martin & Lewis comedy '"Pardners," Dick Powell's ill-fated John Wayne costumer "'I'he Conqueror," Robert Wise's James Cagney Western ''Tribute To A Bad Man," and John Sturges' classic "Gunfight At The O.K. Corral.''

   Moving into the '60's, Van Cleef had roles in important Westerns including Henry King's "The Bravados," the Cinerama epic "How The West Was Won,'' Bud Boetticher's "Ride Lonesome" and John Ford's watershed pic ''The Man Who Shot Liberry Valance.''

   As the big-screen action film went into decline he found employment in TV, guestarring on shows ranging from Westerns to 'The Twilight Zone '' After a 3 year absence from theatrical films his breakthrough came in 1965 when Sergio Leone cast him opposite another refugee from tv, Clint Eastwood in ''For A Few Dollars More," the followup to Leone's ''A Fistful Of Dollars.''

   In 1966 he encored far Leone as the sadistic villain of "The Good,The Bad, And The Ugly," opposite Eastwood and Eli Wallach. The two Leone films made him an international star and upon their release by United Artists in American in 1967, he became a star on his home turf as well.

   Since Eastwood quickly returned to Hollywood following his Italian success Van Cleef was in great demand to topline ItalianWesterns. Sergio Sollima's ''The Big Gundown'' was a weil-received political Western, followed by more routine efforts ''Day Of Anger,'' "Death Rides A Horse,'' ''Beyond The Law" and Frank Kramer's stylish ''Sabata."

   Back home he was a good guy Western hero in "Barquero'' and "El Condor,'' followed by a return to European-lensed Westerns including Alexandcr Singer's ''Captain Apache," Eugenio Martin's ''Bad Man's River" and Kramer's sequel ''The Return Of Sabata."

   Ironically, in 1972 Van Cleef took over Yul Brynner's leading role in the American Western "The Magnificent Seven Ride!" following Brynner's filling in for Kramer in Van Cleef's role in the second Sabata film, "Adios, Sabata'' (Van Cleef starred in No. 1 and 3 of the Sabata features). He returned to Europe for "The Grand Duel "

   Back home he starred as a modern-day U.S. marshal protecting gangster Tony Musante in Jack Starrett's telefilm ''Nowhere To Hide'' and then returned to Europe for the actioners ''The Perfect Killer" and "The Squeeze," last named directed by Antonio Margheriti and costarring Karen Black. In 1979 he starred in the British tv movie "The Hard Way."

   In 1980 he moved back toward the mainstream with character roles supporting Chuck Norris in "The Octagon" and Kurt Russell in John Carpenter's ''Escape From New York". Heart disease temporarily sidelined his career (he had a pacemaker installed).

   He returned in 1983 to star in the Short-lived martial arts tv series "The Master,'' followed by lowercase feature films ''The Killing Machine," ''Codename Wildgeese," ''Captain Yankee,'' ''Armed Response,'' ''The Commander'' and ''May The Best Man Win." His final film appearance was in the 1989 "Speed Zone."

   Survived by his wife, Barbara.

[Rex Lee]

S'il ne fallait retenir qu'une poignée de westerns européens mettant en vedette Lee Van Cleef, pour moi, il y aurait ces quatre-là:












Inutile de préciser les titres tant ces films sont connus.
1965-1967: L'âge d'or  du genre...Qu'est-ce que c'était bien d'aller au ciné pour voir ça!

Bon, voilà...
Fin du couplet nostalgique!

[Rex Lee]

Session de rattrapage... en français.

[old timer]

Son dernier rôle marquant dans un film célèbre :



Escape from New-York (1980) de John Carpenter

[Faja]

Sans oublier sa magnifique interprétation de CHAM, un commandant communiste pendant la guerre d'Indochine dans CHINA GATE le film coup-de-poing du génial Samuel FULLER ( 1957 ).
Son face à face avec Angie DICKINSON est mémorable : son puissant torse nu ne la laisse pas indifférente mais rien n'empêchera cette belle eurasienne d'accomplir sa mission au service de la France...

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