Marvin Lee Aday (who would later change his first name to Michael and his stage name to Meat Loaf) was born in Dallas, Texas on September 27, 1947. His mother was a school teacher who also sang in a gospel quartet. His father was a policeman who also went on drinking binges that so...
Lee Marvin – 1966Cat Ballou (1965) The first actor to win an Academy Award for playing multiple roles in one film, Lee Marvin appeared in the farcical Western Cat Ballou as both the hired gunslinger hero Kid Shelleen and the villainous Tim Strawn. In the same year, he also earned rave...
InBudd Boetticher: Westerns …writer Burt Kennedy and actor Randolph Scott for a series of taut, psychologically complex westerns. The first wasSeven Men from Now(1956), with Scott as an ex-sheriff who methodically tracks down the seven criminals who killed his wife; Lee Marvin was impressive...
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About this time she enrolled in the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for formal training in acting. Dern’s first major role was as a blind teenager who shares some tender moments with the lead character in Peter Bogdanovich’s Mask (1985). She earned critical acclaim for portraying ...