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 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.

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.

Or was it her own first ball as mistress of this big house, a Van Rensselaer bride from way upstate near Albany, from Rensselaerwyck.

A member of the IRSAC staff ( E. Van De Walle ) was recently delegated to cooperate with AIMO in the development of demographic statistics in this territory.

Skorich was considered the logical choice after the club gave Norm Van Brocklin permission to seek the head coaching job with the Minnesota Vikings, the newest National Football League entry.

Van Brocklin, the quarterback who led the Eagles to the title, was signed by the Vikings last Wednesday.

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.

At Manzikert, on the Murat River, north of Lake Van, Diogenes was met by Alp Arslan.

Van Vogt was born on a farm in Edenburg, a Russian Mennonite community east of Gretna, Manitoba, Canada.

Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

Van Vogt was always interested in the idea of all-encompassing systems of knowledge ( akin to modern meta-systems ) -- the characters in his very first story used a system called ' Nexialism ' to analyze the alien's behaviour, and he became interested in the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski.

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

Van Vogt systematized his writing method, using scenes of 800 words or so where a new complication was added or something resolved.

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.

Despite Van Buren's defeat, Johnson was instrumental in keeping Greene County in the Democratic column.

The name Van Mahotsava ( the festival of trees ) originated in July 1947 after a successful tree-planting drive was undertaken in Delhi, in which national leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr Rajendra Prasad and Abdul Kalam Azad participated.

Although the press reported that he was engaged to vaudeville dancer and choreographer Rose Rolanda in 1924, Hopwood's close friend Carl Van Vechten confirmed in later years that it was all a publicity stunt.

Henry Moseley's work showed experimentally in 1913 ( see Moseley's law ) that the effective nuclear charge was very close to the atomic number ( Moseley found only one unit difference ), and Moseley referenced only the papers of Van den Broek and Rutherford.

Gus Van Sant's 2000 Finding Forrester was quickly billed " Good Will Hunting in the Hood.

Mike Judge has stated Van Driessen was his favorite character, after Beavis, to voice.

" Later, a Lady Gaga video convinced Van Toffler of the tenability of a Beavis and Butt-Head revival: " I felt like there was a whole crop of new artists — and what the world sorely missed was the point-of-view that only Beavis and Butt-Head could bring.

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala invented a solid-ink fountain pen in 1907, a German inventor named Baum took out a ballpoint patent in 1910, and yet another ballpoint pen device was patented by Van Vechten Riesburg in 1916.

She then studied for two years with the painter Francis Adolf Van der Wielen, who offered lessons in perspective and drawing from casts during the time that the new Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was under construction.

It is not clear, however, if Van der Heul exercised this degree of responsibility because Kidd was nominally a privateer.

Van Melle was born in Goes.

Martin Van Buren was born in the village of Kinderhook, New York, on December 5, 1782, about 25 miles ( 40 km ) south of Albany, New York.

Van Buren was the first president born a citizen of the United States, as all previous presidents were born before the American Revolution.

Van der Berge identifies common descent as the basis for the establishment of boundaries of ethnic groups, as most people to not join ethnic groups but are born into them.

In the dialect of Holland, it is, with a voiceless V. Van Gogh grew up in Brabant ( although his parents were not born there ), and used Brabant dialect in his writing ; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent:, with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh.

* November 25 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native born mayor of New York ( b. 1643 )

Van Basten was born on 31 October 1964 in Utrecht.

Don Van Vliet (, born Don Glen Vliet ;

Van Vliet was born Don Glen Vliet in Glendale, California, on January 15, 1941, to Glen Alonzo Vliet, a service station owner of Dutch ancestry from Kansas, and Willie Sue Vliet ( née Warfield ), who was from Arkansas.

Van Vliet also claimed that he was related to adventurer and author Richard Halliburton and the cowboy actor Slim Pickens, and said that he remembered being born.

* Lindsey Van ( born 1984 ), American ski jumper

* Marina de Van ( born 1971 ), French film director, screenwriter and actress

* Tomiko Van ( born 1971 ), Japanese singer and actress

* Van Morrison ( born 1945 ), an Irish musician

* Van Nelson ( born 1945 ), an American long-distance runner

* Malinda Williams ( born 1975 ), actress who played hair stylist Tracy " Bird " Van Adams on the Showtime television drama Soul Food.

* Le Van Duyet: famous 18th century Vietnamese eunuch, military strategist and government official ( not a true eunuch, he was born a hermaphrodite )

Van Morrison, OBE ( born George Ivan Morrison ; 31 August 1945 ) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician.

George Ivan ( Van ) Morrison was born on 31 August 1945, at 125 Hynford Street, Bloomfield, East Belfast, Northern Ireland as the only child of George Morrison, a shipyard electrician, and Violet Stitt Morrison, a singer and tap dancer in her youth.