Cast: Lee Van Cleef

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Lee Van Cleef. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

1962 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · James Stewart · Vera Miles · Lee Marvin

Plot Congressman Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) returns with his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) to the tiny town of Shinbone to bury an old friend, Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), and tells reporters...

8.3

32K votes

8.3

32K votes

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

1966 · Movie · 161 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Clint Eastwood · Lee Van Cleef · Eli Wallach · Aldo Giuffrè

Plot First we are introduced to the Ugly, Tuco (Eli Wallach), who leaps through a window after killing the men who were out to get him. Then there is the Bad,...

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8.2

65K votes

8.2

65K votes

High Noon

1952 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Gary Cooper · Grace Kelly · Thomas Mitchell · Lloyd Bridges

Plot A killer that Sheriff Will Kane (Gary Cooper) put away has been let out of the prison and now he and his gang of bad guys are coming to the...

8.1

26K votes

8.1

26K votes

For a Few Dollars More

1965 · Movie · 132 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Clint Eastwood · Lee Van Cleef · Gian Maria Volonté · Mara Krupp

Plot The film establishes episodes for each of the main characters. There is Colonel Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), an aging bounty killer, and the Man With No Name (Clint Eastwood), another...

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8.0

35K votes

8.0

35K votes

Gunfight at the OK Corral

1957 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Burt Lancaster · Kirk Douglas · Rhonda Fleming · Jo Van Fleet

Plot Of all the film versions of the famed 1881 gunfight, this one, starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday, probably has the highest testosterone quotient....

7.5

6K votes

7.5

6K votes

The Young Lions

1958 · Movie · 167 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Marlon Brando · Montgomery Clift · Dean Martin · Maximilian Schell

Plot The destiny of two soldiers during World War II. The German officer Christian approves less and less of the war, while the American GI Ackerman climbs the military hierarchy.

7.2

6K votes

7.2

6K votes

The Tin Star

1957 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Henry Fonda · Anthony Perkins · Betsy Palmer · Michel Ray

Plot Anthony Mann made some of the greatest Westerns of the 1950s, all in partnership with James Stewart. Perhaps needing to prove himself as his own man, in 1957 Mann dropped...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

The Big Combo

1955 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Joseph H. Lewis

Cast Cornel Wilde · Richard Conte · Brian Donlevy · Jean Wallace

Plot Police Lt. Diamond (Cornel Wilde) is told to close his surveillance of suspected mob boss Mr. Brown (Richard Conte) because it's costing the department too much money with no results....

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

How the West Was Won

1962 · Movie · 164 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway · John Ford · George Marshall · Richard Thorpe

Cast Carroll Baker · James Stewart · Debbie Reynolds · Gregory Peck

Plot The fifty years of American westward expansion between the 1830s and 1880s are viewed through the experiences of the Prescott and Rawlings families, as they migrate by the Erie Canal,...

7.0

5K votes

7.0

5K votes

Ride Lonesome

1959 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Randolph Scott · Karen Steele · Pernell Roberts · James Best

Plot A wanted murderer, Billy John, is captured by Ben Brigade, a bounty hunter, who intends to take him to Santa Cruz to be hanged. Brigade stops at a staging post,...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Kansas City Confidential

1952 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast John Payne · Preston Foster · Lee Van Cleef · Coleen Gray

Plot Phil Karlson's low budget, B-grade film noir, opens on a Kansas City armored-car robbery perpetrated by cynical, corrupt ex-policeman Timothy Foster. He devises an outrageous scheme: he will recruit three...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Death Rides a Horse

1967 · Movie · 114 min. · Italy

Direction Giulio Petroni

Cast Lee Van Cleef · John Phillip Law · Mario Brega · Luigi Pistilli

Plot The gunmen who killed five defenseless people made one big mistake. They should have killed six! John Phillip Law lives for one purpose - to avenge the massacre of his...

6.7

748 votes

6.7

748 votes

The Bravados

1958 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Gregory Peck · Joan Collins · Henry Silva · Lee Van Cleef

Plot Jim Douglas has been relentlessly pursuing the four outlaws who murdered his wife, but finds them in jail about to be hanged. While he waits to witness their execution, they...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

The Big Gundown

1966 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Sollima

Cast Lee Van Cleef · Tomas Milian · Fernando Sancho · Luisa Rivelli

Plot Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

The Lawless Breed

1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Rock Hudson · Julie Adams · John McIntire · Dennis Weaver

Plot Released from jail, John Wesley Hardin leaves an account of his life with the local newspaper. It tells of his overly religious father, his resulting life of cards and guns,...

6.6

644 votes

6.6

644 votes

The Best of the Martial Arts Films

1992 · Documentary · 90 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Sandra Weintraub Roland

Cast Kareem Abdul-Jabbar · Chris Casamassa · Jackie Chan · Sammo Hung

Plot There is no plot in this film. It is a collection of the best fighting scenes from the martial arts films (i.e. Bruce Lee and others).

6.5

141 votes

6.5

141 votes

Vice Squad

1953 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Paulette Goddard · K.T. Stevens · Porter Hall

Plot When a police officer is shot arresting a car thief, Captain Barnaby uses his skills and contacts to track down the culprits and uncovers a bank heist plan in the...

6.5

78 votes

6.5

78 votes

The Twilight Zone: The Grave (TV)

1961 · Movie · 24 min. · United States

Direction Montgomery Pittman

Cast Lee Marvin · James Best · Strother Martin · Elen Willard

Plot Old West lawman Conny Miller visits the grave of a man who he failed to track down to prove he was never afraid of him but gets more than he...

6.5

83 votes

6.5

83 votes

Day of Anger

1967 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Tonino Valerii

Cast Lee Van Cleef · Giuliano Gemma · Walter Rilla · Christa Linder

Plot First-class Italian frontier saga starring Lee Van Cleef as a master gunslinger who joins forces with an orphan to take over a small town. After teaching the youngster everything he...

6.5

838 votes

6.5

838 votes

Tribute to a Bad Man

1956 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast James Cagney · Irene Papas · Vic Morrow · Don Dubbins

Plot Easterner Steve Miller (Don Dubbins), making his way west, comes to work for rich, ruthless landowner and horse breeder Jeremy Rodock (Cagney), who doesn’t hesitate to hang cattle rustlers and,...

6.4

651 votes

6.4

651 votes