FrameThrower · Actors · Lee Van Cleef
Lee Van Cleef
5 films · 319 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1959–1981
Born 9 January 1925 · Somerville, New Jersey, USA · died 16 December 1989
Clarence LeRoy "Lee" Van Cleef Jr. was an American actor best known for his roles in Spaghetti Westerns such as For A Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Hatchet-faced with piercing eyes, he had declined to have his nose altered to play a sympathetic character in his film debut, High Noon, and was relegated to a non-speaking outlaw as a result. For a decade he was typecast as a minor villain, his sinister features overshadowing his acting skills. After suffering serious injuries in a car crash, Van Cleef began to lose interest in his apparently waning career by the time Sergio Leone gave him a major role in For a Few Dollars More.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 319 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1959–1981
- Golden Boot Awards1983
- Bronze Star Medal
- Good Conduct Medal
- European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
- Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
- American Campaign Medal
- World War II Victory Medal
How their films are shot
Measured across 319 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Lee takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 60% of their frames are day, 55% natural — the look of the work Lee takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 319 frames from Lee Van Cleef's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.