Lee Van Cleef
Clarence LeRoy Lee Van Cleef Jr January 9 1925 December 16 1989 was an American actor best known for his roles in Spaghetti Westerns such as For A Few Dollars More and The Good the Bad and the Ugly Hatchetfaced with piercing eyes he had declined to have his nose altered to play a sympathetic character in his film debut High Noon and was relegated to a nonspeaking outlaw as a result For a decade he was typecast as a minor villain his sinister features overshadowing his acting skills After suffering serious injuries in a car crash Van Cleef began to lose interest in his apparently waning career by the time Sergio Leone gave him a major role in For a Few Dollars More The film made him a boxoffice draw especially in Europe Despite suffering from heart disease from the late 1970s and having a pacemaker installed in the early 1980s Van Cleef continued to work in films until his death on December 16 1989 at age 64 He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery Hollywood Hills California with an inscription on his grave marker referring to his many acting performances as a villain BEST OF THE BAD
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