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.

Van Cleef was born Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef, Jr. in Somerville, New Jersey, the son of Marion Levinia ( née Van Fleet ) and Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef, Sr.

Van Cleef appeared six times between 1951 and 1955 as Burt Tanner on the children's western The Adventures of Kit Carson, starring Bill Williams.

Van Cleef starred as minor villains and henchmen in various westerns, including The Tin Star and Gunfight at the O. K.

In 1959, a severe alcohol related car crash nearly cost Van Cleef his career as a resulting knee injury had doctors telling him he would never ride a horse again.

In 1963, Van Cleef made a rare TV appearance on Perry Mason in " The Case of the Golden Oranges.

His career revival began when the young Italian director Sergio Leone boldly cast Van Cleef, whose career was still in the doldrums, as one of the two protagonists, alongside Clint Eastwood, in Leone's second western, For a Few Dollars More.

Leone then chose Van Cleef to appear with Clint Eastwood again, this time as the primary villain in the classic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

With his roles in Leone's films, Van Cleef became a major star of Spaghetti Westerns, playing central roles in films such as Death Rides a Horse, Day of Anger, The Big Gundown and The Sabata Trilogy.

In 1984, Van Cleef was cast as a ninja master in the NBC adventure series, The Master, but it was canceled after 13 episodes.

In the early 1980s, Van Cleef appeared in a very popular series of commercials for Midas, in which he played up his gunfighter persona, playing opposite many character actors of the time, including Jack Palance.

Characterized as a sociopath and a hardened juvenile delinquent, Alex is also intelligent and quick-witted, with sophisticated taste in music, being particularly fond of Beethoven, or " Lovely Ludwig Van.

Several small streams that empty into the Black Sea or landlocked Lake Van also originate in these mountains.

Van Vogt was also profoundly affected by revelations of totalitarian police states that emerged after World War II.

The Territory is also technically divided into 5 administrative districts ( one for each of the four largest islands, and then a fifth for all other islands ), and into 6 civil registry districts ( three for Tortola, Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Gorda and Anegada ) although these have little practical relevance today.

Van Houten also developed the " so-called " Dutch process of treating chocolate with alkali to remove the bitter taste.

Van der Heul is also noteworthy because he may have been African or of African-American descent.

The cast also comprised Alan Reed, Luis Van Rooten, Joseph Du Val, Gerald Mohr, Frank Lovejoy, Herb Vigran, Sheldon Leonard, William Conrad, Jeff Chandler, Lionel Stander, Sidney Miller, Olive Deering and Joe De Santis.

They are also held in smaller venues across the island, featuring bands such as Estopa, Van Gogh's Ear, and King Afrhica.

The event attracts amateur swimmers from all over the Canaries and Spain, and also swimming professionals such as David Meca and Maarten Van der Weijden, the paralympist Jesús Collado Alarcón who won gold medals for 100m backstroke and butterfly in Athens 2004, and Xavi Torres Ramis, the paralympic champion in Barcelona ' 92, Sydney and Atlanta.

Van Johnson who also appeared in Pal Joey recalled: " I watched him rehearsing, and it seemed to me that there was no possible room for improvement.

Richard Van Voorst also states that the interpolation likely took place some time between Origen and Eusebius.

Van Voorst also states that the use of a neutral term " called Christ " which neither denies nor affirms Jesus as the Messiah points to authenticity, and indicates that Josephus used it to distinguish Jesus from the many other people called Jesus at the time, in the same way that James is distinguished, given that it was also a common name.

Van Voorst also states that calling Christians a " tribe " would have been very out of character for a Christian scribe, while Josephus has used it to refer both to Jewish and Christian groups.

Van Voorst also states that the neutral reconstruction fits better with the Arabic Testimonium discovered by Pines in the 1970s.

Van Goyen's troubles also may have affected the early business prospects of his student and son-in-law Jan Steen, who left The Hague in 1654.

In 1817, Van Lennep ( who was in the city council at the time ) had also placed the monument De Naald ( Heemstede ) at his own home in nearby Heemstede.

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.

As a young man, Reagan raced boats and later also sold them at a Sea Ray boat dealership in Van Nuys, California.

In 1664, a second attempt was made, but this one also ended badly as the men chosen for the job abandoned their sick commander, Van Niewland, without proper treatment, and the latter eventually died.

Martin Van Buren was the first real American politician and was also the first to use grassroots campaigning in his presidential campaign.

To help secure Florida, Van Buren also pursued the Second Seminole War, which had begun while Jackson was in office.

Van Buren's rather elegant personal style was also an easy target for Whig attacks, such as the Gold Spoon Oration.

Philadelphia Eagles assistant Nick Skorich and a man with Minnesota ties who was working in the CFL, Bud Grant, were also candidates until a different Eagle, quarterback Norm Van Brocklin, was hired on January 18, 1961.

Jay had participated in the decision that exiled his old friend Van Schaack.

Not long after Colonel Van Hamm had foisted me on the Watson staff I received a salary raise and a contract on the Hetman's recommendation.

In the late 1700's Beccaria and Van Marum, among others, had magnetized iron by sending an electrostatic charge through it.

Everybody had heard of Van Gogh, the French impressionist.

Moseley, after discussions with Bohr who was at the same lab ( and who had used Van den Broek's hypothesis in his Bohr model of the atom ), decided to test Van den Broek and Bohr's hypothesis directly, by seeing if spectral lines emitted from excited atoms fit the Bohr theory's demand that the frequency of the spectral lines be proportional to a measure of the square of Z.

Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

Seven Republican senators – William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle and notably Senators Grimes and Ross played a decisive role ; purportedly disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence, they voted against conviction, in defiance of their party and public opinion.

Van Gaal had already left for Bayern Munich after becoming league champions with AZ.

Bacardi had architects Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe and Felix Candela design office buildings and a bottling plant for them in Mexico City during the 1950s.

According to Pissarro ’ s son Lucien, his father was impressed by Van Gogh ’ s work and had “ foreseen the power of this artist ”, who was 23 years younger.

Truffaut and his colleagues argued that Hitchcock had a style as distinct as that of Flaubert or Van Gogh: the virtuoso editing, the lyrical camera movements, the droll humour.

" Van Ash speculates that Fu Manchu had been a member of the Imperial family who backed the losing side in the Boxer Rebellion.

Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.

That same year, investigation proved convicts still had ample access to illicit drugs and four inmates from the Dr. S. Van Mesdagkliniek were arrested for possession of child pornography.

Van Buren and Polk faced pressure to rescind the Specie Circular, an act that had been signed by Jackson to boost the economy.

Van Buren opposed the annexation but in doing so lost the support of many Democrats, including former President Andrew Jackson, who still had much influence.

Craig Evans ( and separately Robert Van Voorst ) state that most modern scholars accept the position that the Testimonium is partially authentic, had a kernel with an authentic reference to Jesus, and that the analysis of its content and style support this conclusion.

Van Voorst states that if the original references to Jesus had had a negative tone, the Christian scribes would have likely deleted it entirely.

Larner had previously played koto with John Fahey, Jim O ' Rourke and members of indie rock groups including Camper Van Beethoven, Deerhoof, Jackie O Motherfucker and Mr. Bungle.

By 1837, after Van Buren had become president, banks were clearly in trouble.