ACTOR

Lee Van Cleef

1925 - 1989

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Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef Jr. (January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989) 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, particularly the Sergio Leone-directed Dollars Trilogy films, For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lee Van Cleef has received more than 7,214,813 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Lee Van Cleef is the 129th most popular actor (up from 133rd in 2019), the 256th most popular biography from United States (down from 248th in 2019) and the 64th most popular American Actor.

Lee Van Cleef is most famous for his role as the villain in the 1966 film "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"

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  • 7.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Lee Van Cleef ranks 129 out of 13,578. Before him are Audie Murphy, Charlton Heston, Simone Signoret, Klaus Kinski, Robert Forster, and Joe Pesci. After him are Judi Dench, Dianne Wiest, Salman Khan, Bruno Ganz, Donald Sutherland, and Irene Papas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Lee Van Cleef ranks 16. Before him are Giorgio Napolitano, Zygmunt Bauman, Mahathir Mohamad, Albert Bandura, Audie Murphy, and Mikis Theodorakis. After him are Carlos Castaneda, Robert F. Kennedy, Jorge Rafael Videla, Tony Curtis, B.B. King, and Jack Lemmon. Among people deceased in 1989, Lee Van Cleef ranks 16. Before him are Konrad Lorenz, Georges Simenon, Sergio Leone, Elena Ceaușescu, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, and Osamu Tezuka. After him are János Kádár, Laurence Olivier, Dolores Ibárruri, Vladimir Horowitz, Graham Chapman, and Sándor Márai.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lee Van Cleef ranks 256 out of 20,380. Before him are Barbra Streisand (1942), Emily Dickinson (1830), Robert Forster (1941), Joe Pesci (1943), Pearl S. Buck (1892), and George Gershwin (1898). After him are John Howard Northrop (1891), Dianne Wiest (1946), Ernest Lawrence (1901), Pete Conrad (1930), Irvin D. Yalom (1931), and Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Lee Van Cleef ranks 64. Before him are Kevin Costner (1955), Diane Keaton (1946), Audie Murphy (1925), Charlton Heston (1923), Robert Forster (1941), and Joe Pesci (1943). After him are Dianne Wiest (1946), Gary Cooper (1901), Gene Hackman (1930), Robert Duvall (1931), Susan Sarandon (1946), and Leonardo DiCaprio (1974).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Sentenza / Angel Eyes
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
Dec 22nd 19668.5 / 10
For a Few Dollars More
Col. Douglas Mortimer
Two bounty hunters both pursue a brutal and sadistic bandit of the name El Indio who has a massive bounty on his head.
Dec 18th 19658 / 10
Escape from New York
Police Commissioner Bob Hauk
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam. After the US president crash-lands inside, war hero Snake Plissken has 24 hours to bring him back.
May 23rd 19817.1 / 10