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

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. He was missing the last joint of his middle finger, a disfigurement prominently featured in the climactic gunfight of Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. (1966). 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. One episode of his short-lived TV series, "The Master" (1984), was titled "The Good, The Bad and the Priceless". 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". During one summer in the early 1950s he was a camp counselor in NYC for Marc Furstenberg. Was portrayed as a bounty hunter in the Lucky Luke comic book "The Bounty Hunter". Was on the short list of actors under consideration for arms dealer Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights (1987).

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