Police Commissioner Bob Hauk ( Lee Van Cleef ) offers a deal to special forces soldier turned criminal " Snake " Plissken ( Kurt Russell ): If he rescues the president and retrieves a secret cassette tape within 24 hours, Hauk will give him a full pardon.

Clarence Leroy " Lee " Van Cleef, Jr. ( January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989 ) was an American film actor who appeared mostly in Western and action pictures.

Lee Van Cleef worked up until his failing health took his life on December 16, 1989 at the age of 64.

His gravestone reads: " Lee Van Cleef January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989 ' Best of the Bad ' Love and Light.

Hollywood has also participated in the genre with actors such as Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, Brandon Lee ( son of Bruce Lee ), Wesley Snipes, Gary Daniels, Mark Dacascos, and Jason Statham.

* 1954 – David Lee Roth, American singer ( Van Halen )

" As our tastes got more obscure ," Geddy Lee said in a recent interview, " we discovered more progressive rock-based bands like Yes, Van der Graaf Generator and King Crimson, and we were very inspired by those bands.

In both cases Lee Van Cleef carries on as the older hero versus Giuliano Gemma and John Phillip Law, respectively.

When Asian Martial arts films started to draw crowds in European cinema houses, the producers of Spaghetti Westerns tried to hang on, this time not by adapting story-lines but rather by directly including Martial Arts fighting in the films, performed by Eastern actors – for example Chen Lee in My Name Is Shanghai Joe or Lo Lieh teaming up with Lee Van Cleef in The Stranger and the Gunfighter.

* Lee Van Cleef

* December 16 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor ( b. 1925 )

* January 9 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor ( d. 1989 )

As a result of his efforts, he also gave actors such as Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Warren Beatty, Andy Griffith, James Dean, and Jack Palance, their first major movie roles.

Lee Van Cleef returned as a ruthless fortune seeker, with Eli Wallach portraying the cunning Mexican bandit Tuco Ramirez.

wife Eliza Van Wie and son DeWitt ( 1843 – 1870 ) daughter Mary ( 1845 – 1869 ), daughter Catherine ( Kate ) Lee ( 1849 – 1851 ).

Charles Bronson, Lee Van Cleef and Clint Eastwood became famous by starring in Spaghetti Westerns, although they were also to provide a showcase for other noted actors such as Jason Robards, James Coburn, Klaus Kinski and Henry Fonda.

The label has also found great commercial success with the vocalist Norah Jones, and released new albums by established artists on the fringes of jazz such as Van Morrison, Al Green, Anita Baker and newcomer Amos Lee, sometimes referred to as the " male Norah Jones ".

More importantly, much was made of a draft treaty of commerce, secretly negotiated between the Amsterdam banker Jean de Neufville and the American agent in Aix-la-Chapelle, William Lee, with the connivance of the Amsterdam pensionary Van Berckel, and found among the effects of Henry Laurens, an American diplomat who had been apprehended by the British cruiser HMS Vestal in September, 1780, on the high seas.

* David Lee Roth, rock musician with Van Halen

* David Lee Roth, lead singer of band Van Halen

Famous people who attended the Little Red Schoolhouse include opera star and Edison protégé, Anna Case and Marion Van Fleet, the mother of actor Lee Van Cleef.

Spaghetti Westerns also began featuring a pair of different heroes – In Leone's film Eastwood's character is an unshaven bounty hunter dressed similarly to his character in A Fistful of Dollars who enters an unstable partnership with Mortimer, an older bounty killer who uses more sophisticated weaponry and wears a suit ( Lee van Cleef ).

Fittingly enough Sabata is performed by Lee van Cleef himself, while John Garko plays the very similar Sartana protagonist.

Another famous Somerville native was famed character actor Lee Van Cleef.

* Lee Van Cleef ( 1925 – 1989 ), character actor, who was an accountant in his hometown before his movie career began.

Margheriti worked with many well-known genre actors such as Lee Van Cleef, John Saxon, Claude Rains, John Morghen, Klaus Kinski, Barbara Steele, Reb Brown, Donald Pleasence, Yul Brynner, David Warbeck, Luciano Pigozzi, Marvin Hagler, Lee Majors, James Franciscus, Terence Hill, Fred Williamson, Christopher Lee and many others.

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Lee Van Cleef played Jesse James in the same episode.

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Chan's character, " Chon Wang " is meant to sound like John Wayne, and the antagonist, Nathan Van Cleef, is an homage to Lee Van Cleef, who played in the 1976 kung-fu western film The Stranger and the Gunfighter, among other roles in major westerns.

Robert James Lee " Bob " Hawke AC GCL ( born 9 December 1929 ) is a former Australian politician who served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991.

* The Lemon Drop Kid ( 1934, Lee Tracy ) — remade in 1951 with Bob Hope ( and I Love Lucy co-star William Frawley as a racetrack tout ), it introduced the Christmas song " Silver Bells ".

Sixx and Lee soon met guitarist Bob " Mick Mars " Deal.

Among the musicians with whom he has played are Eddie Harris, Lee Konitz, Dave Liebman, Sam Rivers, Bob Mintzer, Terry Gibbs, Buddy DeFranco, Roscoe Mitchell, Evan Parker, Jay McShann, Herbie Mann, Randy Brecker, Jerry Goodman and Ramsey Lewis and many others.

After the designs were approved, fellow Atari engineer Bob Brown assisted Alcorn and Lee in building a prototype.

After both teams turned the ball over on downs, Minnesota drove 86 yards in 9 plays to score on a 14-yard touchdown pass from backup quarterback Bob Lee to tight end Stu Voigt.

In a controversial move, X-Men editor Bob Harras sided with Lee ( and Uncanny X-Men artist Whilce Portacio ) over Claremont in a dispute over plotting.

The soundtrack features songs by Newman, Bobby Darin, The Who, Free, Eels, The Guess Who, Bill Withers, Betty Carter, Peggy Lee, The Folk Implosion, Gomez, and Bob Dylan, as well as two cover versions — The Beatles ' " Because " performed by Elliott Smith, and Neil Young's " Don't Let It Bring You Down " performed by Annie Lennox.

The album, produced by Ethan Johns ( who has previously worked with Kings Of Leon, Rufus Wainwright and Laura Marling ), would include covers of songs by Bob Dylan, John Lee Hooker and Billy Joe Shaver, and feature such guest musicians as Booker T.

** The Gospel at Colonus – Lee Breuer, Bob Telson

The popularity of many of the major bands was amplified by star vocalists, such as Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey, Helen O ' Connell and Bob Eberly with Jimmy Dorsey, Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb, Billie Holiday and Jimmy Rushing with Count Basie, Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest with Harry James, Doris Day with Les Brown, Toni Arden and Ken Curtis with Shep Fields and Peggy Lee with Benny Goodman.

The film featured Michael Caine as well as R. Lee Ermey and Billy Bob Thornton in minor supporting roles.

On Deadly Ground is a 1994 environmental action-adventure film, co-produced, directed by and starring Steven Seagal, and co-starring in an all-star cast, Michael Caine, Joan Chen, John C. McGinley, R. Lee Ermey, Kenji Nakano, and Billy Bob Thornton in one of his early appearances.

Robert Lee " Bullet Bob " Hayes ( December 20, 1942 – September 18, 2002 ) was an Olympic sprinter turned American football wide receiver in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys.

The film was remade in 1949 as Sorrowful Jones with Bob Hope and Lucille Ball and again as Little Miss Marker in 1980 with Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart, Brian Dennehy, and Lee Grant.

However, some fans, including Lee Eckmann and Bob Erickson, including Dave Hunter, toward the open ( East ) end of the stadium on the student side started yelling " sideways ".

It is the setting for Stephen Hunter's fictional Bob Lee Swagger series, the most notable being Black Light, as well as the place where Joel B Reed's fictional character, Jazz Phillips, of the Jazz Phillips mystery series, grew up.

Chasing Amy, released in 1997, reveals that in the years since the events of Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob have found out that comic book artists Holden McNeil ( Ben Affleck ) and Banky Edwards ( Jason Lee ) created a popular independent comic book series entitled Bluntman and Chronic which stars the duo.

They visit Holden McNeil, co-creator of the characters, and ask for the money that belongs to them for using their likenesses in the film, only to find out that he sold his half of the rights to " Bluntman and Chronic " to the other co-creator, Banky Edwards ( also Lee ); after Holden introduces them to the internet, they also discover that a number of people have bashed the upcoming film and insulted Jay and Silent Bob numerous times.

** Tron-Michael Minkler, Bob Minkler, Lee Minkler and James LaRue

Elliott was born in New York City, the son of Lee and Bob Elliott, who was a well-known comedian as part of the very successful comedy team Bob and Ray .< ref >