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The very mention of Lee Marvin’s name conjures up terror mixed with amusement, as no other screen meanie inhabited as many contradictory qualities as this natural-born, elegant lethal weapon. To director Robert Aldrich, Marvin managed to be “suspicious, cynical, sophisticated, anti-establishment, a son-of-a-bitch and a hero with a love for his fellow men.” He could even be romantic on occasion, sort of tender and a little sad. Whatever the description, one thing is certain: he introduced a new kind of violent spirit to film, both unexpected and untamable.
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Upon making his debut in summer stock, Marvin began working steadily in television and off-Broadway. He made his Broadway bow in a 1951 production of {+Billy Budd} and ... made his first film appearance in Henry Hathaway's You're in the Navy Now. The following year, Hathaway again hired him for The Diplomatic Courier, and was so impressed that he convinced a top agent to recruit him.
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Thanks to director Don Siegel, Marvin appeared in the groundbreaking The Killers (1964) playing an organized, no-nonsense, efficient, businesslike professional assassin whose character was copied to a great degree by Samuel L. Jackson in the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction. This film was ... the first time Marvin received top billing in a movie and the only time Ronald Reagan played a villain.
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