Lee Marvin

Born on February 19, 1924 in New York City, NY

Much like Humphrey Bogart before him, Lee Marvin rose through the ranks of movie stardom as a character actor, delivering expertly nasty and villainous turns in a series of B-movies before finally graduating to more heroic performances. Read Full Biography

Year	Award	Category	Movie	Result
1969	Hollywood Foreign Press Association	Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy	Paint Your Wagon	Nominated
1965	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences	Best Actor	Cat Ballou	Won
1965	Berlin International Film Festival	Silver Bear for Best Actor	Cat Ballou	Won
1965	British Academy of Film and Television Arts	Best Foreign Actor	Cat Ballou	Won
1965	British Academy of Film and Television Arts	Best Foreign Actor	The Killers	Won

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'The Dirty Dozen': How The Combat Classic Created The Modern Action Movie
by Gary Susman
When New York Times critic Bosley Crowther reviewed "The Dirty Dozen" upon its release (45 years ago this week, on June 15, 1967), he blasted the World War II action drama for its characters' "hot, sadistic zeal," its...

Actors We Miss: Lee Marvin
by Jeffrey M. Anderson
"I bet you're a big Lee Marvin fan!" taunts one reservoir dog to another in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 movie, thereby bestowing an aura of cool on the famous white-haired, rock-jawed, gravel-voiced actor, who had died five years...

Scenes We Love: The Dirty Dozen
by Alison Nastasi
A group of murderers, psychopaths and other offenders are sent on a mission during World War II to destroy a chateau which has become a hotbed for Nazi officers. Its location is so far behind enemy lines that few of the...

Actors We Miss: Lee Marvin
by Alison Nastasi
Lee Marvin was one of the quintessential movie tough guys -- an actor who could not only act the part, but one who'd lived it. The gravelly-voiced performer was a Marine sniper during World War II and was shot by machine gun...

Their Best Role: Michael Caine
by Alison Nastasi
When I decided to do a Their Best Role piece on Sir Michael Caine, I knew that choosing one character would be difficult. Caine's body of work is rich, diverse, and filled with classic parts -- many of which could very well be...

Zak Penn is Writing Dirty Dozen Remake
by Christopher Campbell
As if he didn't have too many comic book adaptations to write, Zak Penn (X-Men: The Last Stand) has been named as the new screenwriter of Joel Silver's remake of The Dirty Dozen, which we unfortunately heard about early last...