Lee Van Cleef

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Lee Van Cleef in Death Rides A Horse (1967)

Lee Van Cleef (1925–1989) was a prolific American actor who made his name in films of the Western genre. His debut movie was the classic High Noon (1952) in which he played Jack Colby, one of the "three men waiting for the noon train". Generally cast as a villain, he was a prominent supporting actor until the mid-1960s when he had his breakthrough role as bounty hunter "Colonel Douglas Mortimer" in For A Few Dollars More (1965), the second of Sergio Leone's Sphagetti Westerns which also starred Clint Eastwood and Gian Maria Volonte. The following year, Van Cleef starred as "Angel Eyes" (The Bad) in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly with Eastwood and Eli Wallach.