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Lee Marvin February 19, — August 29, was an American film and television actor. Known for his bass voice and prematurely white hair, he is best remembered for playing hardboiled "tough guy" characters. Although initially typecast as the "heavy" i. Lamont Waltman Marvin Jr. Confederate General Robert E. Lee was his first cousin, four times removed.

President George Washington.

Lee Marvin's acting career began

Marvin studied violin when he was young. As a teenager, Marvin "spent weekends and spare time hunting deer, puma, wild turkey, and bobwhite in the wilds of the then-uncharted Everglades". He later attended St. Leo, Florida, after being expelled from several other schools for bad behavior smoking cigarettes, truancy of lessons and fights. Before finishing School of Infantry , he was a quartermaster.

He was wounded in action on June 18, , while taking part in the assault on Mount Tapochau during the Battle of Saipan , in the course of which most of his company became casualties. He previously held the rank of corporal, but had been demoted for troublemaking. After the war, while working as a plumber's assistant in the artist village of Woodstock in upstate New York, Marvin was asked to replace an actor who had fallen ill during rehearsals.

He moved to Greenwich Village and used the G. Bill to study at the American Theatre Wing.