The next biggest part was that of the boxer, Joe Pendleton, in the play Heaven Can Wait. From there, he continued to meet with the group and audition for parts. Van Cleef was a rare case of a person known to genuinely have heterochromatic eyes (that is to say, eyes of two different colors).Īfter leaving the Navy, Van Cleef read for a part in Our Town at the Little Theater Group in Clinton, New Jersey. By virtue of his deployments Van Cleef also qualified for the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and American Campaign Medal and the World War II Victory Medal. He had been awarded the Bronze Star and the Good Conduct Medal. By the time of his discharge in March 1946, he had achieved the rank of Sonarman First Class (SO1), and earned his mine sweeper patch. Afterwards the ship performed air-sea rescue patrols in the Black Sea, before returning to Palermo, Sicily. In January 1945, Incredible moved to the Black Sea, and performed sweeping duties out of the Soviet Navy base at Sevastopol, Crimea. The ship initially patrolled the Caribbean, then moved to the Mediterranean, participating in the landings in southern France. After basic training and further training at the Naval Fleet Sound School, he was assigned to a submarine chaser and then to a minesweeper, USS Incredible, on which he worked as a sonarman. At age 17, he obtained his high school diploma early in his senior year in order to enlist in the United States Navy in September, 1942.
Van Cleef was born on Januin Somerville, New Jersey, the son of Marion Levinia (née Van Fleet) and Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef. Please improve this article by adding a reference.įor information about how to add references, see Template:Citation. This article does not contain any citations or references. The film made him a box-office draw, especially in Europe. Van Cleef had suffered serious injuries in a car crash, and had begun to lose interest in his apparently waning career by the time Sergio Leone gave him a major role in For a Few Dollars More. 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)
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