Lee Van Cleef
American actor (1925–1989)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Squinting villain-turned-lead who became the face of spaghetti Westerns through Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy. Van Cleef's gaunt features and cold stare made him impossible to look away from across 170+ film and TV roles spanning four decades.
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Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef Jr. was an American actor. He appeared in over 170 film and television roles in a career spanning nearly 40 years, but is best known as a star of spaghetti Westerns, holding starring roles in the Sergio Leone-directed Dollars Trilogy films, For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). In 1983, he received a Golden Boot Award for his contribution to the Western film and television genre.
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