[ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ] People of Note - Obituaries GenealogyBuff.com - Lee Marvin, Actor Posted By: GenealogyBuff.com Date: Sunday, 4 September 2016, at 8:52 a.m. System Mechanic - Clean, repair, protect, and speed up your PC! Lee Marvin, Actor February 19, 1924 - August 29, 1987 Born in New York City on February 19, 1924 to Lamont Marvin, an advertising executive, and his wife Courtenay, a fashion writer. Lee was thrown out of dozens of schools due to his behaviour. He was sent to Florida, where he attended St. Leo's Preparatory School near Dade City. At the beginning of World War II, he enlisted in the U.S. Marines In the battle of Saipan in June, 1944, he was wounded in the buttocks by Japanese fire which severed his sciatic nerve. He was sent home and got work as a plumber's apprentice in Woodstock, New York. While repairing a toilet at the local community theatre, he was asked to replace an ailing actor in a rehearsal. He was immediately stricken with a love for the theatre and went to New York City, where he studied and played small roles in stock and Off-Broadway. From the stage he moved on to a long succession of small TV roles, before heading to Hollywood, where he began playing heavies and cops in roles of increasing size and frequency. Marvin’s film John Ford's Donovan's Reef 1963, The Man who Shot Liberty Valance 1962, Robert Aldrich's Attack 1956 and The Dirty Dozen 1967. He was a surprise Oscar winner for his dual role as a drunken gunfighter and his evil, noseless brother in the Western Cat Ballou. A long-term romantic relationship with Michelle Triola led, after their breakup, to a highly publicized lawsuit in which Triola asked for a substantial portion of Marvin's assets. Her case failed in its main pursuit, but did establish a legal precedent for the rights of unmarried cohabitors, the so-called "palimony" law. Marvin continued making films of varying quality, always as a star, until his sudden death from a heart attack on August 29, 1987, in Tucson, Ariz at age 63. USA Yearbooks by State and County [ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ] People of Note - Obituaries is maintained by GenealogyBuff with WebBBS 5.12.

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