After paying his dues with the New York American Theatre Wing, Marvin made his Broadway debut in 1951, followed by a film debut that same year in You're in the Navy Now. He lent memorable support to The Big Heat, The Wild One and Bad Day at Black Rock, and menaced John Wayne in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
After winning a Best Actor Oscar for his dual role in Cat Ballou (1965), Marvin starred in a number of films that became cult favorites -- The Dirty Dozen, Point Blank, Paint Your Wagon (for which he had a hit album), The Big Red One and others. The Delta Force (1986) was his final film; he died Aug. 8, 1987.
The Dirty DozenIn this Academy Award-winning World War II action flick from director Robert Aldrich (The Longest Yard), a U.S. Army major (Lee Marvin) is handed a near-impossible assignment: Turn a group of conscripted convicts into a crack fighting unit and then send them on a mission to destroy a villa filled... Read More
The Big Red One: Special EditionOne of the great, unsung war films follows four comrades -- members of the 1st Infantry Division, aka the Big Red One -- from the invasion of North Africa onto Sicily, Normandy and to the liberation of the Nazi death camps. This autobiographical film from B-movie master (and 1st Infantry veteran)... Read More
Point BlankLee Marvin delivers a potent performance as a gangster named Walker, whose faithless wife (Sharon Acker) and double-dealing partner in crime (John Vernon) shoot Walker and leave him to die on Alcatraz Island after a major heist. But he turns up two years later hell-bent on payback in this taut,... Read More
Hell in the PacificMarooned on a deserted Pacific island during World War II, American Lee Marvin and Japanese officer Toshirô Mifune are warriors without weapons. With little dialogue to fall back on, director John Boorman conjures a fascinating dynamic between sworn enemies who have more in common than they... Read More
Prime CutChicago wise guy Nick (Lee Marvin) travels to Kansas City to investigate the disappearance of one of his acquaintances. There, he meets mob boss "Mary Ann" (Gene Hackman), and also happens upon a group of young women who have been drugged, stripped and are being held hostage. One of them, Poppy... Read More
