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 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.

Van Cleef also had a supporting role in John Carpenter's cult hit Escape from New York.

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.

Although gold has an atomic number of 79, immediately after Rutherford's paper appeared in 1911 Antonius Van den Broek made the intuitive suggestion that atomic number is nuclear charge.

The earliest allegation of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in a September 16, 1950 Associated Press article by Edward Van Winkle Jones.

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.

In 1995, she appeared in the fantasy movie Jumanji, loosely based on Chris Van Allsburg's 1981 book of the same name.

Richardson has appeared in a number of high-profile supporting roles in the cinema, including Vanessa Bell in The Hours, Lady Van Tassel in Sleepy Hollow and Patsy Carpenter in The Evening Star.

In 1970, after having appeared earlier in a pivotal one-hour musical special called " Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman ", Moore and husband Grant Tinker successfully pitched a sitcom centered on Moore to CBS.

To arouse curiosity and nostalgic feelings, Dick Van Dyke appeared as her guest, but the program was canceled within three months.

She has appeared in a number of television movies, including Like Mother, Like Son, Run a Crooked Mile, Heartsounds, The Gin Game ( based on the Broadway play ; reuniting her with Dick Van Dyke ), Mary and Rhoda, Finnegan Begin Again.

Later in 1957 Connery appeared in Terence Young's poorly received MGM action picture Action of the Tiger opposite Van Johnson, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom and Gustavo Rojo ; the film was shot on location in southern Spain.

Among the entertainers was the internationally known concert pianist Van Cliburn, who appeared in a business suit, rather than his usual formal wear.

European action actors such as Belgian-born Jean-Claude Van Damme ( Bloodsport, Hard Target, Timecop ), Moroccan-born Jean Reno ( Ronin ), Swedish-born Dolph Lundgren ( Showdown in Little Tokyo, Universal Soldier, The Expendables ) and English-born Jason Statham ( The Transporter, The Expendables, Crank ), appeared in a number of 1990s and 2000s-era action films.

After his retirement from music, Van Vliet rarely appeared in public.

In September 2010, Loretta Sanchez appeared on the Spanish language network, Univisión and said that " the Vietnamese and the Republicans are – with an intensity – trying to take away ' our ' seat ", referring to her Vietnamese-born opponent, Van Tran.

The first mention of equal temperament related to Twelfth root of two in the West appeared in Simon Stevin's unfinished manuscript Van de Spiegheling der singconst ( ca 1605 ) published posthumously three hundred years later in 1884 ; however, due to insufficient accuracy of his calculation, many of the numbers he obtained were off by one or two units from the correct values.

Trudy Van Tubb appeared first, and was introduced in " Topolino e la collana Chirikawa " (" Mickey Mouse and the Chirikawa Necklace ", first published on March 10, 1960 ).

Farr also appeared on The Dick Van Dyke Show and was a regular on the gangster-comedy series The Chicago Teddy Bears ( featuring Huntz Hall ).

Some of Blue Note's output has appeared in CD Box sets issued by Mosaic Records ( also involving Cuscuna ), and there has been a series of reissues of older material, much of it in the " RVG series ", remastered by Rudy Van Gelder.

In 1985, she sang and appeared in the video of " Sun City ", the anti-apartheid record written and produced by guitarist Steven Van Zandt.

In 2002, The Van Riebeeck Society published Sir Graham Bower's Secret History of the Jameson Raid and the South African Crisis, 1895 – 1902 ( Edited by Deryck Schreuder and Jeffrey Butler, Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, Second Series No. 33 ), adding to growing historical evidence that the imprisonment and judgement upon the Raiders at the time of their trial was unjust, in view of what has appeared, in later historical analysis, to have been the calculated political manoeuvres by Joseph Chamberlain and his staff to hide his own involvement and knowledge of the Raid.

Van Halen III did produce a hit however, " Without You ", and additionally the song " Fire in the Hole " appeared on the Lethal Weapon 4 soundtrack.

As well as winning Bronze for his acclaimed The Huey Show on BBC Radio 6 Music, Huey has appeared on Jack Osbourne's Adrenaline Junkie, a Boy-Racer show Slips, sat in for Jonathon Ross and Dermot O ' Leary on BBC Radio 2, appeared in the Soul Boy as a Dick Van Dyke accented London record shop owner, voiced a character in the Scarface: The World Is Yours video game, and most bizarrely appeared with his dog, Sugar and Liza Tarbuck on Liza & Huey's Pet Nation on primetime SKY TV.

An alternative system based on six recurring narrative themes was designed by Raymond Van Over:

When it became clear after another six ballots that Van Buren would not win the required majority, Polk emerged as a " dark horse " candidate.

In early 2002, Digweed underwent a six week country-wide tour of the United States with Sasha and Jimmy Van M called Delta Heavy.

His father Abraham Van Buren ( 1737 – 1817 ) was a farmer, the owner of six slaves, and a tavern-keeper in Kinderhook.

After six years under Sylvester, he spent a final year of apprenticeship in the New York City office of William P. Van Ness, a political lieutenant of Aaron Burr.

Van Leeuwenhoek left after six years.

Television roles included the recurring role of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk in five of the six episodes of The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( 1970 ), the villainous Nasca in Thames Television's Aztec-themed drama The Feathered Serpent ( 1976 – 78 ), a guest starring spot in the comedy series The Goodies in the episode " The Baddies ", as well as episodes of Paul Temple, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Doomwatch, The Persuaders !, A Family at War, Coronation Street, Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Colditz, Play for Today, Z-Cars, Special Branch, Sutherland's Law, The Sweeney, Jason King, Survivors, Crown Court, Angels, Warship, Van der Valk, Space: 1999, The Onedin Line, All Creatures Great and Small, Only When I Laugh ( Series 2, Total Episode # 9 ), Nanny, Minder, and the first episode of Inspector Morse in January 1987.

There were also calls for Van Basten to call up Dennis Bergkamp, who had retired from the national team six years earlier for a final " hurrah " as he was retiring that season.

The limited edition version of the book contains a CD of Van Vliet reading six of his poems: " Fallin ' Ditch ", " The Tired Plain ", " Skeleton Makes Good ", " Safe Sex Drill ", " Tulip " and " Gill ".

John Peter Van Ness Throop of Washington D. C. engraved a new die in 1841, which is also sometimes known as the " illegal seal " because only six arrows are shown rather than the required thirteen.

But they were ousted in six games by the Atlanta Hawks in the first round of the 2011 NBA Playoffs, the first time head coach Stan Van Gundy was eliminated early in the playoffs.

The suite of six 17th-century audernade tapesteries represents hunting scenes according to Van Der Meulen's sketches.

In particular the corrugated Citroën H Van style " ripple bonnet " of convex swages was replaced ( except for the Sahara ), with one using six larger concave swages and looked similar until the end of production.

On August 12, 1862 the 24th Missouri Infantry ( Union ) under the command of Colonel Boyd surprised six rebel soldiers near Van Buren.

In July 1999, six additional adult beetles were identified in the county living in Van Hetton Creek.

Later, six more were created: Davis, Fulton, Jackson, Logan, Millcreek and Van Buren.

The latter, designed by architect Rem Koolhaas, held ten exhibitions of masterworks by leading artists from the last six centuries, from Van Eyck, Titian and Velázquez, to Van Gogh, Picasso, Pollock and Lichtenstein.

The Van Buren School District is the largest school district in Crawford County, consisting of six elementary schools ( grades K-4 ), two middle schools ( grades 5-6 ), two junior highs ( grades 7-9 ) and one high school ( grades 10-12 ).

The district has six elementary schools ( Elwell, Savage, Rawsonville, Tyler, Haggerty, and Edgemont ), two middle schools ( North Middle School and South Middle School ), Belleville High School, and the Van Buren Alternative Educational School.

Despite Van Halen's extraordinarily long lay-off between studio albums, " A Different Kind of Truth " sold 188, 000 copies during its first six days of release, debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart.

Van Halen released 5150 ( 1986 ), their first album with Sammy Hagar on lead vocals, which was number one in the U. S. for three weeks and sold over six million copies.

He was survived by his wife Jane Malley Norris, eight children, sons William, George, Daniel, Brian, Roger and David, and daughters Constance Van Hoven and Mary Keck, 21 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.

Inside the chapel are six stained glass windows, three on each side, designed by the Van Linge family.