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Known for:	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Escape from New York, For a Few Dollars More
Birthday:	9 January 1925, Somerville, New Jersey, USA
Height:	6' 2" (1.88 m)

He was missing the last joint of his middle finger, a disfigurement prominently featured in the climactic gunfight of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. He actually lost it while building a playhouse for his daughter, although there were rumors that it happened in a road accident or a bar fight. He had three children from his first marriage: Deborah, Alan and David. One episode of his short-lived TV series, The Master, was titled "The Good, The Bad, and the Priceless". He had almost given up his acting career in the mid-'60s and turned to painting. When he was cast by Sergio Leone in For a Few Dollars More, it made him a superstar in Europe and restarted his career in the US, making him a recognizable and bankable name. According to the book "Weird NJ" (Sceurman, Mark and Mark Moran, Barnes and Noble Books, 2004 ISBN 0-7607-3979-X) he was a descendant of the Morris County Van Cleefs who were infamous in the area for their strange living and "procreational" efforts. In fact, one trait that Lee had was that he had one green eye and one blue eye. According to the book, "this telltale characteristic was corrected in the movies with colored contact lenses". Was the inspiration for the character Revolver Ocelot in the "Metal Gear" series of games.

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