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.

* Lee Van Cleef as Bob Hauk

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.

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

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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.

* Lee Van Cleef, actor

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.

A decade before the classic era, a story of Hammett's was the source for the gangster melodrama City Streets ( 1931 ), directed by Rouben Mamoulian and photographed by Lee Garmes, who worked regularly with Sternberg.

Lee had worked previously with Leon in a band called Suite 19 and the trio practiced together for some time with Leon eventually deciding not to continue.

The Marvel Comics company itself exists within the Marvel Universe, and versions of people such as Stan Lee and Jack Kirby have appeared in some of the stories, whereas characters like Steve Rogers, ( Captain America's alter ego ), have worked for Marvel.

Alcorn worked with Lee to develop the designs and prototype, and based them on the same digital technology used in their arcade games.

The two worked in shifts to save time and money ; Lee worked on the design's logic during the day, while Alcorn debugged the designs in the evenings.

Ross has also worked with John Lee Hooker, Lightnin ' Hopkins, Brownie McGhee, Memphis Slim, Sunnyland Slim, Otis Rush, Dr. John, Bobby Lewis, Pinetop Perkins, Charles Neville, Cyril Neville, Big Mama Thornton, Louisiana Red, J. B. Hutto, Eddie Kirkland, Floyd Jones, Homesick James, and many other blues greats.

He worked with Elvis Presley and Dolores del Río in Flaming Star ( 1960 ), with Steve McQueen in Hell Is for Heroes and Lee Marvin in the influential The Killers ( 1964 ) before directing a series of five films with Clint Eastwood that were commercially successful in addition to being well received by critics.

Tony Lee returned as Commissioner and in 1971 worked out another " interim agreement " with the islanders.

New semi-regular characters introduced by Collins and Fletcher included: Dr. Will Carver, a plastic surgeon with underworld ties who often worked on known felons ; Wendy Wichel, a smarmy newspaper reporter / editorialist with a strong anti-Tracy bias in her articles ; and Lee Ebony, an African-American female detective.

Christopher Lee was extremely keen to get the film made ; he and others worked on the production without pay.

Daisy worked as a waitress at the Boar's Nest, the local bar owned by Boss Hogg, as part of an agreement with Boss Hogg so that he would give Uncle Jesse and the boys a loan for a lower interest rate so the boys could purchase the entry fee for a race that they wished to race General Lee in.

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.

Beginning in the mid-1940s, he worked for several years with Stan Lee on comic books at Timely Comics ( now known as Marvel Comics ), ranging from Combat Kelly and The Ringo Kid to Tessie the Typist.

Lee believed that only the individual could come to understand what worked ; based on critical self analysis, and by, " honestly expressing oneself, without lying to oneself.

Produced by Paul Rothchild – who worked on The Doors ' first five albums – the R & B-infused album was meant to be the first record by a new line-up of Love three years after frontman Arthur Lee quietly disbanded the Sixties psychedelic band.

Shackleton then worked hard to persuade others of his wealthy friends and acquaintances to contribute, including Sir Phillip Lee Brocklehurst, who subscribed £ 2, 000 ( 2011 equivalent £ 157, 000 ) to secure a place on the expedition, author Campbell Mackellar, and Guinness baron Lord Iveagh whose contribution was secured less than two weeks before the departure of the expedition ship Nimrod.

There he worked with Ann-Margret and Dinah Manoff, the daughter of the actress whom Matthau starred with in Plaza Suite, Lee Grant.

She worked with such leading men as Dustin Hoffman, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Tommy Lee Jones, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Duvall.

Lee agreed to a 6-year, $ 80 million dollar deal, on a framework which was worked on during the day that was contingent on the decision of LeBron James.

Moreover, Keitel has worked for other acclaimed directors such as: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Dario Argento, Luc Besson, Fernando Colomo, Brian De Palma, Stanley Donen, Philip Kaufman, Spike Lee, Barry Levinson, Jack Nicholson, Robert Rodriguez, George A. Romero, Paul Schrader, Ettore Scola, Luis Sepúlveda and Bertrand Tavernier ; and for TV productions with Stephen Frears, Clint Eastwood, and Joel Schumacher.

* Laurie Lee, author, lived and worked as a building labourer in Putney during the 1930s

* Hung's younger brother, Lee Chi Kit, has worked on almost 40 films, many of which Hung was also involved with.

Lee also worked on Hung's Martial Law series.