Jim VanCleve

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Biography

Self-taught bluegrass fiddler Jim VanCleve was created and raised in Florida, where his desire for bluegrass 1st blossomed. His family’s proceed to North Carolina after that positioned VanCleve in the center of string music group nation, and by his teenagers he was gigging frequently being a fiddler. VanCleve was just 18 yrs . old when he became a member of Rambler’s Choice in 1998. The group released its just album, Sounds from the Mountains, on Rounder Information that same calendar year, and VanCleve left to utilize Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. He following joined pushes with two various other alumni of Quicksilver, Barry Abernathy and Steve Gulley, to create Mountain Heart, alongside Alan Perdue and Johnny Dowdle. Hill Center released a self-titled record in 1999, and implemented it with 2000’s gospel-tinged The Trip, 2002’s NO ALTERNATIVE WAY, 2004’s Drive of Character, and 2006’s WIDELY OPEN. In 2007 VanCleve released his debut single album (including musical efforts from Mountain Center associates), No Apologies, on Rural Tempo Information.

Quick Facts

Full Name Jim Van Cleve

Profession Session musician, Fiddler

IMDB http://imdb.com/name/nm0001812

Allmusic http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000110594

Music Groups Mountain Heart

Music Songs Nature of the Beast, Devil's Courthouse, Train 45, Way It Always Seems to Go, We Can't Be Darlings Anymore, Grey Afternoon, Fall Creek Falls, Let the Big Dog Eat, Wheel Hoss, It's Mighty Dark to Travel, Ripped Fuel, Foster's Reel, X Grass, Ralph Crimson, Panhandle Country, Chattanooga Breakdown, Tillery Cove, Greenbrier, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Pretty Little Indian, Highlands, Stoney Point, Scars, Cascades

Albums No Apologies

#	Fact
1	His death certificate gave throat cancer as a secondary cause of death.
2	When still working as an accountant, Van Cleef was offered an acting job "starting on Monday." He protested that he needed to give his employer two weeks' notice, only to be told that he started on Monday or didn't start at all. When Van Cleef's employer heard this, he promptly fired him, removing the need for any notice period.
3	Served in the US Navy from 1942-46.
4	Producer Stuart Cohen recently revealed that Van Cleef was considered for the role of Garry in John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), since Carpenter had recently worked with him on Escape from New York (1981).
5	He was involved in a car accident in 1959 in which he lost his left kneecap. Doctors told him he would never be able to ride a horse again because of the injury. Within six months he was back in the saddle.
6	Was on the short list of actors under consideration for arms dealer Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights (1987).
7	Interviewed in "Bad at the Bijou" by William R. Horner (McFarland, 1982).
8	Was portrayed as a bounty hunter in the Lucky Luke comic book "The Bounty Hunter".
9	Son of Clarence Leroy Van Cleef and Maria Lavinia Van Fleet, both mostly of Dutch ancestry. He also had distant French, Swedish, Belgian (Flemish), English, and German, roots.
10	During one summer in the early 1950s he was a camp counselor in NYC for Marc Furstenberg.
11	Was the inspiration for the character Revolver Ocelot in the "Metal Gear" series of games.
12	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".
13	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 (1965). It made him a superstar in Europe and restarted his career in the US, making him again a recognizable and bankable name.
14	One episode of his short-lived TV series, The Master (1984), was titled "The Good, The Bad and the Priceless".
15	He had three children from his first marriage: Alan (B. 1947), Deborah (B. 1948), and David. In 1960, when Lee married his second wife Joan Miller. They adopted a daughter, Denise.
16	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 (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.

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Thieves of Fortune	1990		Sergio Danielo Christophero
Speed Zone	1989		Rock-Skipping Grandfather
Der Commander	1988		Col. Mazzarini
Armed Response	1986		Burt Roth
La leggenda del rubino malese	1985		Warren
Geheimcode Wildgänse	1984		China
The Master	1984	TV Series	John Peter McAllister / The Master
Goma-2	1984		Julot
Escape from New York	1981		Hauk
The Octagon	1980		McCarn
The Hard Way	1979	TV Movie	McNeal
The Squeeze	1978		Chris Gretchko / Ray Sloan
The Perfect Killer	1977		Harry Chapman
Nowhere to Hide	1977	TV Movie	Ike Scanlon
Vengeance	1977		McClain
Diamante Lobo	1976		Father John / Lewis
Take a Hard Ride	1975		Kiefer
El kárate, el Colt y el impostor	1974		Dakota
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony	1973		Frankie Diomede
The Grand Duel	1972		Sheriff Clayton
The Magnificent Seven Ride!	1972		Chris
Bad Man's River	1971		Roy King
È tornato Sabata... hai chiuso un'altra volta!	1971		Sabata / Major
Captain Apache	1971		Capt. Apache
El Condor	1970		Jaroo
Barquero	1970		Travis
Sabata	1969		Sabata
Commandos	1968		MSgt. Sullivan
Al di l	1968		Billy Joe Cudlip
Day of Anger	1967		Frank Talby
Death Rides a Horse	1967		Ryan
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	1966		Sentenza Angel Eyes
La resa dei conti	1966		Jonathan 'Colorado' Corbett
Gunsmoke	1960-1966	TV Series	Ike Jeffords / Johnny Hooker / Rad Meadows
Laredo	1966	TV Series	Big Mike Kelly
Branded	1965-1966	TV Series	Charlie Yates / Fred Slater
For a Few Dollars More	1965		Col. Douglas Mortimer
My Mother the Car	1965	TV Series	Nick Fitch
The Andy Griffith Show	1965	TV Series	Skip
Rawhide	1964	TV Series	Deck Sommers / Fred Grant
Destry	1964	TV Series	Ace Slater
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters	1963	TV Series	Raoul Volta
77 Sunset Strip	1960-1963	TV Series	Majeski / Deek
Laramie	1960-1963	TV Series	Caleb / Mac Morgan / Dawson / ...
Have Gun - Will Travel	1962-1963	TV Series	Golias / Corbin
The Dick Powell Theatre	1963	TV Series	Salty
Perry Mason	1963	TV Series	Edward Doyle
The Dakotas	1962-1963	TV Series	Slade Tucker / Larry Jackson
Ripcord	1962-1963	TV Series	Jack Martin / Henry Kane
How the West Was Won	1962		River Pirate (uncredited)
The Rifleman	1959-1962	TV Series	Johnny Drako / Wicks / Stinger / ...
Death Valley Days	1954-1962	TV Series	Brogger / Fred Daniels
Cheyenne	1961-1962	TV Series	Harry / Larry Jackson / Braden
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	1962		Reese
Bronco	1961-1962	TV Series	Charley Clune / Shanghai Williams
The Joey Bishop Show	1962	TV Series
The Twilight Zone	1961	TV Series	Steinhart
Posse from Hell	1961		Leo
Stagecoach West	1961	TV Series	Lin Hyatt
Maverick	1961	TV Series	Wolf McManus
Hawaiian Eye	1961	TV Series	Manuel
Shotgun Slade	1961	TV Series	Buck
Bonanza	1960	TV Series	Appling
Lawman	1958-1960	TV Series	Jack Saunders Deputy Clyde Wilson Ned Scott ...
Colt .45	1958-1960	TV Series	Red Feather / Devery
Mr. Lucky	1960	TV Series	Kruger
The Deputy	1960	TV Series	Cherokee Kid
The Slowest Gun in the West	1960	TV Movie	Sam Bass
Black Saddle	1960	TV Series	Frank Sandoo
The Untouchables	1960	TV Series	Frank Diamond
The Alaskans	1960	TV Series	Roc
Hotel de Paree	1960	TV Series	Thompson
The DuPont Show with June Allyson	1960	TV Series	Peak
Law of the Plainsman	1959	TV Series	Tracey
Riverboat	1959	TV Series	Luke Cragg
Tombstone Territory	1959	TV Series	Jake Conroy / Sam Carver
Wanted: Dead or Alive	1959	TV Series	Jumbo Kane
The Real McCoys	1959	TV Series	1st Sentry
Yancy Derringer	1959	TV Series	Ike Milton / Frank James
Cimarron City	1959	TV Series	Tom
Fury	1959	TV Series	Race Collins
Ride Lonesome	1959		Frank
Northwest Passage	1959	TV Series	Frank Wade
Frontier Doctor	1958	TV Series	Deputy Sid Carver aka Bill Dalton
Machete	1958		Miguel
Guns, Girls, and Gangsters	1958		Mike Bennett
Zorro	1958	TV Series	Antonio Castillo
Target	1958	TV Series
The Bravados	1958		Alfonso Parral
State Trooper	1958	TV Series	Frank Parnessa
The Young Lions	1958		1st Sgt. Rickett
Richard Diamond, Private Detective	1958	TV Series	Ed Murdock
Day of the Badman	1958		Jake Hayes
Wagon Train	1958	TV Series	Rufe Beal
Trackdown	1957	TV Series	Ben Fraser
Raiders of Old California	1957		Sgt. Damon Pardee
Casey Jones	1957	TV Series	Mort Clio
Gun Battle at Monterey	1957		Kirby
The Tin Star	1957		Ed McGaffey
General Electric Theater	1957	TV Series	Dave Rudabaugh
Joe Dakota	1957		Adam Grant
The Last Stagecoach West	1957		Steve Margolies
The Lonely Man	1957		Faro
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral	1957		Ed Bailey
China Gate	1957		Maj. Cham
The Badge of Marshal Brennan	1957		Shad Donaphin
Schlitz Playhouse	1953-1957	TV Series	Cowboy / Wink / Larkin / ...
Tales of Wells Fargo	1957	TV Series	Cherokee Bob
Soldiers of Fortune	1957	TV Series	Sergeant Bucheroff
The Quiet Gun	1957		Doug Sadler
Accused of Murder	1956		Police Sgt. Emmett Lackey
Crossroads	1956	TV Series	Charlie
The Sheriff of Cochise	1956	TV Series	Hackett
Wire Service	1956	TV Series	Al Sanders
The Ford Television Theatre	1954-1956	TV Series	Stanley Perrin
Pardners	1956		Gus
It Conquered the World	1956		Dr. Tom Anderson
Chevron Hall of Stars	1956	TV Series	Thomas
Tribute to a Bad Man	1956		Fat Jones
Studio 57	1956	TV Series	Tommy
The Conqueror	1956		Chepei
The Millionaire	1956	TV Series	Howard Branch
Brave Eagle	1955	TV Series	Great Bear
The Vanishing American	1955		Jay Lord
A Man Alone	1955		Clanton
The Adventures of Champion	1955	TV Series	Frank
Luke and the Tenderfoot	1955	TV Series	Johnny Dark
The Naked Street	1955		Harry Goldish (uncredited)
The Star and the Story	1955	TV Series
The Road to Denver	1955		Pecos Larry
The Man Behind the Badge	1955	TV Series	Floyd
I Cover the Underworld	1955		Flash Logan
Annie Oakley	1955	TV Series	Amos Belcher / Tim Brennan
Buffalo Bill, Jr.	1955	TV Series	Tom Stace / John-O
City Detective	1955	TV Series	Hardtman
TV Reader's Digest	1955	TV Series	Mike
The Big Combo	1955		Fante
Ten Wanted Men	1955		Al Drucker
Treasure of Ruby Hills	1955		Frank Emmett
The Adventures of Kit Carson	1953-1955	TV Series	Sheriff Ned Jackson / Maj. Farnsworth and Vance Howard / Burt Tanner / ...
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin	1954	TV Series	Ed McCleod
Medic	1954	TV Series	Dr. Frank Strauss
The Gene Autry Show	1953-1954	TV Series	Henchman Ray / Henchman Hod
Dawn at Socorro	1954		Earl Ferris
Waterfront	1954	TV Series	Ed
The Desperado	1954		Paul Clayton / Buck Clayton
Princess of the Nile	1954		Hakar (uncredited)
Cavalcade of America	1953-1954	TV Series
The Yellow Tomahawk	1954		Fire Knife
Arrow in the Dust	1954		Tillotson Henchman
Rails Into Laramie	1954		Ace Winton
Gypsy Colt	1954		Hank
Stories of the Century	1954	TV Series	Jesse James
Big Town	1953-1954	TV Series	Jack Coleman / Rick
The Nebraskan	1953		Pvt. Reno Benton
Tumbleweed	1953		Marv
Jack Slade	1953		Bolt Mackay
The Lone Ranger	1952-1953	TV Series	Jango / Bull Harper / Joe Singer
Vice Squad	1953		Pete Monte
Arena	1953		Smitty
Space Patrol	1952-1953	TV Series	Lesser / Ward / Herrick / ...
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms	1953		Corp. Stone
White Lightning	1953		Brutus Allen
Bandits of Corsica	1953		Nerva
Four Star Playhouse	1953	TV Series	Bob Wheeler aka Sonora Kid
The Lawless Breed	1953		Dirk Hanley
The Range Rider	1952-1953	TV Series	El Latigo / Utah Joe / Rocky Hatch
Boston Blackie	1952	TV Series	Lou / Captain Jansen
Kansas City Confidential	1952		Tony Romano
Sky King	1952	TV Series	Mark
Untamed Frontier	1952		Dave Chittun
High Noon	1952		Jack Colby

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status	Character
El kárate, el Colt y el impostor	1974	performer: "Rye Whiskey"
Captain Apache	1971	performer: "Captain Apache", "April Morning"

Thanks

Title	Year	Status
6 Bullets to Hell	2014	grateful acknowledgment
Edición Especial Coleccionista	2013	TV Series in memory of - 1 episode
Kill Bill: Vol. 2	2004	dedicatee

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
The David Frost Show	1970	TV Series	Himself
The Dick Cavett Show	1970	TV Series	Himself
Talking Pictures	1988	TV Series documentary	Himself
Monsters, Madmen & Machines: 25 Years of Science Fiction	1984	TV Movie documentary	actor 'It Conquered the World'
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	1984	TV Series	Himself
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion	1979	TV Movie documentary	Himself

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Alfonso Sansone produttore per caso	2014
Peter Baumgartner, Filmkameramann	2014	Video documentary short	China (uncredited)
Söldner-Stories	2014	Video documentary short	China (uncredited)
Stirb langsam auf den Philippinen	2014	Video documentary short	Col. Mazzarini (uncredited)
Edición Especial Coleccionista	2013	TV Series	Sentenza / Angel Eyes
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s	2012	Documentary	Himself
Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel	2011	Documentary
España, plató de cine	2009	TV Movie documentary	Col. Douglas Mortimer (uncredited)
Comic Relief 2009	2009	TV Special
Il falso bugiardo	2008		Himself
How the West Was Lost	2008	TV Movie documentary	Sentenza Angel Eyes (uncredited)
Ein Leben wie im Flug	2007	TV Movie	Himself
Hollywood Remembers Lee Marvin	2000	TV Movie documentary	Reese (uncredited)
Klaus Kinski - Ich bin kein Schauspieler	2000	Documentary	Col. Douglas Mortimer
The Making of 'How the West Was Won'	1998	Video documentary short	Himself
Bruce Lee and Kung Fu Mania	1992	Documentary
The Best of the Martial Arts Films	1992	Documentary	Himself
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to James Stewart	1980	TV Special documentary	Actor 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' (uncredited)
Blade Rider, Revenge of the Indian Nations	1966		Charlie Yates
Luke and the Tenderfoot	1965	TV Movie	Johnny Darth
The Gun of Zangara	1960	TV Movie	Frank Diamond (uncredited)

Won awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
1983	Golden Boot	Golden Boot Awards

Title	Salary
Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)	$17,000
High Noon (1952)	$500 /week

#	Quote
1	[6/12/81 interview in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, on his pierced left ear] I started wearing it when I was a kid in the Navy. I sailed all over the world, and somewhere along I started wearing an earring as a symbol of respect for all of the different cultures and people. I've worn it, off and on, ever since. Lately, when directors and producers see the bloody thing, they ask me to wear it on camera.
2	Bad guys have always been my bag . . . I look mean without even trying. Audiences just naturally hate me on screen. I could play a role in a tuxedo and people would think I was rotten. You can do much more with a villain part. Movies are full of leading men, most of whom aren't working. It's much harder to find a good villain.
3	Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.

#	Trademark
1	When starring in westerns, his characters frequently use customized firearms, such as rifles and pistols with increased precision, fire rate, ammo magazine and additional muzzles.
2	Low Authorative voice
3	Sardonic, menacing characters
4	Beady eyes that frequently squinted in the Western sun
5	Sharp facial features
6	Spaghetti westerns