Lee Marvin

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. Regardless of which side of the law he traveled, however, he projected a tough-as-nails intensity and a two-fisted integrity which elevated even the slightest material. Born February 19, 1924 in New York City, Marvin quit high school to enter the Marine Corps, and while serving in the South Pacific was wounded in battle. He spent a year in reco...