A great actor and a humble man. He spoke at a graduation when I was in the Marine Corps. It was a great thrill to meet him, and have a few drinks with him. We were all scout-snipers. He told us about his time in the barrel. God bless him eternally.
Lee Marvin was in the Marines in WW II. He saw brutal combat in the Marianas in the Summer of 1944 where was badly wounded and spent the rest of the War recovering
Lee Marvin spent 13 months in the hospital recovering from his wound, it severed the sciatic nerve. Did anyone notice how he did not spent much time talking about his combat experience. Great marine , great actor, great American.
Yeah, he doesn't really talk about it. i'm on a hunt for an interview where he deflects the idea of being a war hero to someone else. AND the only reason i know of this interview is because Tom Hanks and Stephen Colbert had a conversation discussing said interview and how amazing that Marvin thought Captain Kangaroo was a true war hero.. in comparison to Marvin.
The actors of the 50's and 60's were the soldiers of WWII and Korea. They went to real boot camp, not a three day taste, when it mattered, and ended up in combat. The amazing thing is that they never really brought it up, it was just a given that they and their peers, were all in government issue
Too right Jack. There were a few actors from that era that you wouldn't want to mess with. Lee Marvin, Robert Mitchum, Clint Eastwood, but to name a few.
@@martinreynolds6027 Robert Mitchum was never in either the services or WW2. Tough looking guy, nonetheless!!! 👍 Clint Eastwood was never in the Korean war either, though he was in the army for a stint at that time.👌
After a battle on Saipan, only Marvin and one other guy in his unit were left alive, and for the rest of his life Marvin helped and looked out for the guy who shared that experience with him....
Actually, there were about 250 guys in Marvin's unit in the 4th Marines on Saipan and about 5 of them survived the war. One is about as terrible a death toll as the other, but I just thought you might want to know it wasn't quite that grim. But that is only talking about Saipan, which was his last battle. Lee Marvin also invaded about 20 different islands in the Marshalls and I don't know if anyone knows how many of his comrades were killed there. He was a scout-sniper inserted just around daybreak to spy out the Japanese defenses and bunkers. I can only imagine that was a terribly dangerous job in the Marines.
One of my favourite actors. Lee was awesome, yet so modest in his manner. Loved a few of his films. Death Hunt with Charles Bronson in 1981.Rest in Peace, sir.
Thanks Lee for all the pleasure you gave me in watching your films. The man has more class in his smallest fart than most of the preening posturing narcissists who lecture us nowadays. Rest in peace sir.
not really... almost anyone with a day of active duty qualifies. If you got a medal you're in...purple heart included. ruclips.net/video/e_S6e5RC9U8/видео.html
i understand what you are saying about eligibility, but how hard is it to actually get a decent spot in there. is it expensive? is there a waiting list? it's also interesting when a veteran chooses to be buried at arlington instead of with their relatives. lee marvin's marker looks just like all the rest...as it should. i doubt that many young people today even know who he was.
Started watching Lee Marvin in a myriad of TV roles in late 50's, early 60's...but he was BORN to play Col. Reisman !! Once you saw him and heard that voice, you knew you wanted him ON YOUR SIDE !!!
He has a very good sense of humor. I like how he makes light of things and comes up with funny little quips. He was, in fact, rather charming, as some have commented.
Lee admitted he was shot in the ass by the Japanese in combat, why did the BBC choose to censor that? Two films stand out, "Hell in the Pacific" and "Death Hunt". Great actor.
Marvin Thiessen Getting shot in the behind happened a lot to guys In Easy company, Band of Brothers too. I suppose if your going to get shot or fragged it’s not the worst place.
The generation of men I grew up watching on screen - Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Oliver Reed, Sean Connery, Terence Stamp, Ian McShane, Robert Mitchum, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, et al .... the modern era is a joke by comparison to these people.
Velo in the Vale. I agree. As I come from that generation being a proud member of the 'baby boomer' generation which appears to be the last generation with a secure hold on masculinity. Thanks to the liberal agenda and modern therapy methods all your young men of today have become affeminized and no longer allowed to assert their masculinity. If we are to follow the proposed ideologies of Rosie O'Donnell, Ellen DeGeneres and especially the queen Oprah Winfrey then why would you not expect to hear such nonsense as gender identification issues along with the other collateral nonsense that follows. I pity the millennials and their offspring who have nothing achieve but Facebook .......
Lee watched many of his comrades die in the Pacific and it haunted him all his life despite the humour. All movie fans love Lee. He elevates every show he is in. Point Blank is a masterpiece.
+IMP yes and he like many veterans didn't talk much about his service, but in the Pacific, during world war 2 he assaulted 21 beaches with the USMC and was finally wounded so bad at the battle of Saipan , in which most of the men in his unit were killed, he was sent home after healing with a purple heart and honorable discharge. talk about a Tough guy!
Growing up, I thought Lee Marvin wasn't a good actor. Then I saw him in Paint Your Wagon, and completely changed my mind - one of the greatest performances I have ever seen
@@javiermorhaim3667 That is true. The film's director, Samuel Fuller based it on his own experiences as an Infantry man In the 1st U.S. Infantry Division, the famous "The Big Red One" in WW II. Fuller wrote a novel, The Big Red One that includes lots of incidents that was not in the movie. Also, except for a few Battle of the Bulge scenes, the entire film was shot in Israel and all the extras including those playing German soldiers were Israelis !
Samuel Fuller liked to use actors that were veterans especially those who had been in combat for his war films. He did not want to use actors like John Wayne who had never been in uniform.
I saw him in Wild Ones and watched him completely steal every scene he was in with Brando. That and watching a trailer of The Big Heat convinced me he's one of the very finest actors of our time.
I don't know how to put this, but Lee Marvin has always reminded me of one those very last Mohicans, or one of those last remaining dinosaurs, from the Alpha male generation breed. He had so much class and yet he had a lot of charm and charisma. Thank! you for this download, on the RUclips channel. Johnny, Montréal, Canada!
Lee Marvin was one of my all time favorites. They don't make em like that anymore. RIP Lee Marvin!! Gone but no forgotten through your movies. Gonna go watch POINT BLANK!! 🗣He was a beast in that movie!!👹💀 🗣👤♊
Just that scene of him arriving at LAX was worth the price of admission. I remember the first time I walked down that concourse. I HAD to make that sound with my shoes! I never got straight whether, after Lee's death, Boorman, the director, gave the shoes to his widow, or she gave them to him. Either way, it's a poignant story.
Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou, The Dirty Dozen .... Lee Marvin will always be one of my favorites. He had such presence on the screen and off. My kind of actor.
Lee Marvin the rough masculine voice . Great actor. You are missed but we still watch your movies. Great man. .My favorite movie was when you were on the island with a Japanese pilot and you 2 were it. You finally RESPECTED each other
Marvin was great in The Dirty Dozen and he had scenes in Point Blank that were incredible. Of course, some of his best characters were in the John Wayne trilogies: The Comancheros, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (brilliant villain) and Donovan's Reef. I hate to sound like an old man with a cliche -- but there are no actors today that are Lee Marvin. None. Absolutely none.
@@GrymsArchive Writer/Director Sam Fuller wrote the part of the sergeant SPECIFICALLY for Lee in that movie. And, Robert Carradine's character was a stand-in for Fuller himself, when he was young, chronicling his experiences in the First Infantry during WW2.
Interesting how many of the major male stars of that era did front-line service in WWII. No hiding in the rear-echelon.....Joe Kennedy Jr. got himself blown up AFTER he completed his required number of missions in bombers....Refused to go home....
@@stephenreeds3672 : Stupid interviewer ! And they said his show lasted 10 yrs in Britain ? If his show, (and the exact same show) was aired in the US, imo it wouldn't have lasted even a year ! I almost didn't watch the whole interview it was so very poor !
Terry Wogan couldn't break the top off a boiled egg . This interview does him no favours . Lee Marvin on the other hand . . . One word sums up Mr Marvin ; Granite .
I really enjoyed his work as an actor, and of course his real life came through on screen for his military roles. My late father served in the South Pacific WWII and many of his friends. When I watched these war movies with Lee Marvin and others, I really believed they were there at that moment, filming the war, of course it can't capture the reality, but you could believe these men, and I enjoyed their acting.
@@louisfriend1851 better check your underpants are clean then . Lee Marvin must have met 10,000 's of people in his lifetime. A man so charismatic would generate memories for all of them . Those stories pass down in family folklore. I don't doubt him for a second . Try to be a better man buddy .
Interesting story from the bio written by Marvin's wife. After being wounded on Saipan, Marvin woke up on a hospital ship. When he regained consciousness, "Moonlight Serenade" was playing on the phonograph and a nurse was asking him what flavor of ice cream he would like. All he could feel was guilt, because his buddies were still fighting on the island. All but two were killed and, for the rest of his life, Marvin could never listen to "Moonlight Serenade".
"you look more like Lee Marvin than Lee Marvin" . Not one Terry's more enlightened observations! Poor Lee, not so much wounded in the Pacific, more wounded in the specifics!
MOS 0317 normally a second military occupation, scout sniper. I trained with the M40A1, and a 79 day course in k bay Oahu. Shooting center of 9" pie plates at a thousand yards. 30-06 kicks and you need a shooter jacket big time. But a person being shot at that distance, a dead man! The training is intense, many in first week rock out from just not wanting it bad enough, or just cannot shoot accurate enough to qualify! Lee probably has many stories to tell from the battle field in a shooter nest!
Lee Marvin was actually a true scout, for the most part, during WW2. He was inserted onto around 20 different islands in the Marshalls during that campaign early in the morning to scout out the Japanese bunkers and strongholds. He was hit by a machine gun bullet close to his sciatica nerve, and also in the foot, while on Saipan. That is doubtless why he was always squirming in his chair in interviews. Only around 5 or so guys in his unit of about 250 on Saipan even survived the war. My ex-wife's uncle fought with the 27 Infantry division on Saipan and he told me they never, ever took prisoners. Shot them all dead because they did not trust the Japanese to actually surrender. They would emerge from their bunker or fox hole and produce a grenade from don't ask where and take as many GIs as they could with them. Saipan was a terrible place.
What a genuine classy guy with a great sense of humor! Earnest Borgnine, who had been his good friend, said that people didn't know that Lee Marvin was (quote) "an old softy". Lee Marvin >always< brought real substance to the movies he was in; this interview shows it. ⚡👍🥴⚡
Summer of ‘74 I was working as staff for the Malibu Drug Store (and soda shop) that used to be across from the Malibu Colony. Lee suddenly appeared at the large glass doors looking like he was wearing pajamas … white backgrounds with mis-matching cowboys on one and the other with sailboats. And his presence was HUGE! I will never forget the quiet humor.
I was entering a popular restaurant in Malibu in the early eighties with some family members. Sitting at the bar, drinking a neat Scotch, was Lee Marvin, by himself. He had recently lost his 'Palamony' suite to his ex live-in girlfriend. Lee was one of my hero's from the movies and I was also aware that he had served and fought with the Marine Corps on Iwo Jima during WW2. I wanted so badly to walk up and say hello, shake his hand and tell him how much I admired him, but out of respect for his privacy, I didn't. I don't regret my decision either. Interestingly, as we were seated, my cousin Pat nudged me and nodded towards a table behind us. Sitting there, with his then wife, who was devouring a steak, was Rod Stewart, also nursing a Scotch!
Lee Marvin was not on Iwo Jima. He was in the Marshall Islands and also on Saipan, where he was wounded and eventually released from the Marines in mid-1945 because of his sciatica nerve problems from the machine gun bullet that hit him in his posterior.
A great actor and a humble man. He spoke at a graduation when I was in the Marine Corps. It was a great thrill to meet him, and have a few drinks with him. We were all scout-snipers. He told us about his time in the barrel. God bless him eternally.
Lee Marvin was in the Marines in WW II. He saw brutal combat in the Marianas in the Summer of 1944 where was badly wounded and spent the rest of the War recovering
A friend who was a LA county Sherrif was called to Lees home. He said Lee was an OK Guy.
Lee Marvin spent 13 months in the hospital recovering from his wound, it severed the sciatic nerve. Did anyone notice how he did not spent much time talking about his combat experience. Great marine , great actor, great American.
Yeah, he doesn't really talk about it. i'm on a hunt for an interview where he deflects the idea of being a war hero to someone else. AND the only reason i know of this interview is because Tom Hanks and Stephen Colbert had a conversation discussing said interview and how amazing that Marvin thought Captain Kangaroo was a true war hero.. in comparison to Marvin.
I always admired him not just because he was a pacific veteran but also a great actor .
Which wound?
One of my favourite actors a real man among many pretenders
Lee and John were great friends. John Wayne was protrade as the all American hero.But for me it was Lee Marvin he was the reall deal.
Lee Marvin's voice was badass itself.
This was a time when the actors, like Lee Marvin, playing heroic soldiers and tough guys were heroic tough guys in real life.
Yuuupp
The actors of the 50's and 60's were the soldiers of WWII and Korea. They went to real boot camp, not a three day taste, when it mattered, and ended up in combat. The amazing thing is that they never really brought it up, it was just a given that they and their peers, were all in government issue
Too right Jack. There were a few actors from that era that you wouldn't want to mess with. Lee Marvin, Robert Mitchum, Clint Eastwood, but to name a few.
Agree.
@@martinreynolds6027 Robert Mitchum was never in either the services or WW2. Tough looking guy, nonetheless!!! 👍
Clint Eastwood was never in the Korean war either, though he was in the army for a stint at that time.👌
After a battle on Saipan, only Marvin and one other guy in his unit were left alive, and for the rest of his life Marvin helped and looked out for the guy who shared that experience with him....
Saipan
@@muchosgracias3764 Tks
@@xzqzq np
Holy shit.....if thats true he knew pain and honor and loyalty like few people do.
Actually, there were about 250 guys in Marvin's unit in the 4th Marines on Saipan and about 5 of them survived the war. One is about as terrible a death toll as the other, but I just thought you might want to know it wasn't quite that grim. But that is only talking about Saipan, which was his last battle. Lee Marvin also invaded about 20 different islands in the Marshalls and I don't know if anyone knows how many of his comrades were killed there. He was a scout-sniper inserted just around daybreak to spy out the Japanese defenses and bunkers. I can only imagine that was a terribly dangerous job in the Marines.
The great Lee Marvin, natural tough guy...with that voice..got to say a true artist and amazing actor.
One of my favourite actors. Lee was awesome, yet so modest in his manner. Loved a few of his films. Death Hunt with Charles Bronson in 1981.Rest in Peace, sir.
He was a humble guy.
This man was just pure cool.
Thanks Lee for all the pleasure you gave me in watching your films.
The man has more class in his smallest fart than most of the preening posturing narcissists who lecture us nowadays.
Rest in peace sir.
They don't make em like that anymore
@j j 2021 Gonna take a spell as we have 8 years of a previous administration's social experimenting, wokeness and #metoo mendacity to deal with.
Sorry Rodney. Wasn't stealing your quote. I said the same.
@@edmonddantes3640 Whining crybaby.
You got that right!!
War Hero and Gentleman and great actor
honeybeebadger Sums it up.
@@stevepayne5965 true.
Also the best handler of firearms in movie history.
@James Henderson try again
JB yes great actor
One of the all time greats
He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery . A great honor......
not really... almost anyone with a day of active duty qualifies.
If you got a medal you're in...purple heart included.
ruclips.net/video/e_S6e5RC9U8/видео.html
i understand what you are saying about eligibility, but how hard is it to actually get a decent spot in there. is it expensive? is there a waiting list?
it's also interesting when a veteran chooses to be buried at arlington instead of with their relatives.
lee marvin's marker looks just like all the rest...as it should. i doubt that many young people today even know who he was.
packrcch no)
Good enough for Lee,good enough for me.Semper Fi Marines.
@@00BillyTorontoBill most are buried in their local community national cemetery, not Arlington
Marvin WAS tough. That made it easy for him to play off his toughness.
Natch
His humility when asked about being tough is the mark of a real tough guy.
lee Marvin has the coolest voice ever
clumpyify
It's the most masculine voice ever.
and Robert Mitchum
Reminds me of Tom Waits
If anything kept him out of fights it was his voice.
clumpyify Nearly. It was between him and Burton.
Started watching Lee Marvin in a myriad of TV roles in late 50's, early 60's...but he was BORN to play Col. Reisman !! Once you saw him and heard that voice, you knew you wanted him ON YOUR SIDE !!!
He played Major Reisman not Colonel!!!
He has a very good sense of humor. I like how he makes light of things and comes up with funny little quips. He was, in fact, rather charming, as some have commented.
What a charming man! You can tell he’s both a character and a good fellow!
What a voice and what an actor. Top man
Lee Marvin was tough, he was a WW2 Marine in the Pacific.
Patriot Prepper Channel Absolutely. That was why he didn’t need to claim toughness in this interview.
Was in three Campaigns in the Pacific ...
Rip lee Marvin we miss you ,one great actor,one great Marine
What a sense of humor. One of the greatest actors ever.
Outstanding actor..Dirty Dozen is my favorite. Proud to be a brother Marine.
One of the best, a class act as an actor, and a stand up man. He won an Oscar for Cat Balou, but was so good as Liberty Valence. RIP Lee.
Lee admitted he was shot in the ass by the Japanese in combat, why did the BBC choose to censor that? Two films stand out, "Hell in the Pacific" and "Death Hunt". Great actor.
Marvin Thiessen Getting shot in the behind happened a lot to guys In Easy company, Band of Brothers too. I suppose if your going to get shot or fragged it’s not the worst place.
Big Red One
Mr. Roberts
Why censor? 1984, Champ.
Same reason there are so few programs regarding Japanese WWII atrocities compared to those of Germany....afraid of being called ' racist '.
WHAT A DIGNIFIED PATRIOT .....A TRUE GENTLEMAN .....A GIANT ....WOW ....R.I.P LEE ....
Two fantastic men in completely different ways and both sorely missed.
There's not many actors I have any true respect for. Lee Marvin is the absolute exception to that. Just a great guy, real legend.
“ I went into the normal types of jobs a 21 year old marine scout sniper does, digging ditches.....” Legend.
One of the greatest, I love Lee Marvin and he left this world to soon.
The generation of men I grew up watching on screen - Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Oliver Reed, Sean Connery, Terence Stamp, Ian McShane, Robert Mitchum, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, et al .... the modern era is a joke by comparison to these people.
Total agreement.... these men were and are REAL men..... not like todays young fake pussys!
Excellent recount of the "heavies" of last 60 years! Good list.
Don't forget Jack Palance.
Velo in the Vale. I agree. As I come from that generation being a proud member of the 'baby boomer' generation which appears to be the last generation with a secure hold on masculinity. Thanks to the liberal agenda and modern therapy methods all your young men of today have become affeminized and no longer allowed to assert their masculinity. If we are to follow the proposed ideologies of Rosie O'Donnell, Ellen DeGeneres and especially the queen Oprah Winfrey then why would you not expect to hear such nonsense as gender identification issues along with the other collateral nonsense that follows. I pity the millennials and their offspring who have nothing achieve but Facebook .......
True.... back then it was cool to be a Man.... nowadays being a Man is an evil thing.
Lee watched many of his comrades die in the Pacific and it haunted him all his life despite the humour. All movie fans love Lee. He elevates every show he is in. Point Blank is a masterpiece.
Lee Marvin absolute legend.
On of my favourite actors ,i can watch anything he appears in,the definition of cool
Great down 2 earth fella. He really is 1 of the best thats ever come outs hollywood.
Marvin was the Man. Just an amazing human being. Always interesting. And one cannot forget about how he served his nation with distinct honor.
His wit is so sharp. Rip Lee.
What a cool guy...a true bad ass
+IMP yes and he like many veterans didn't talk much about his service, but in the Pacific, during world war 2 he assaulted 21 beaches with the USMC and was finally wounded so bad at the battle of Saipan , in which most of the men in his unit were killed, he was sent home after healing with a purple heart and honorable discharge. talk about a Tough guy!
IMP go by
Brings back memories so many the war was part at times it cheered me up and I still have good joy when I hear the music. Thank you
A Marine who fought in the Pacific. A true bad ass.
Rod Stewart
Superb actor and thanks for your service. Semper fi
I love this guy! Every inch the man! Greatly missed.
Can never find fine actors like this anymore!
Marvin dodged every difficult queustion with such grace. What a guy.
Growing up, I thought Lee Marvin wasn't a good actor. Then I saw him in Paint Your Wagon, and completely changed my mind - one of the greatest performances I have ever seen
You need to watch " The Big Red One", Marvin is great there! You're gonna love it!!
@@javiermorhaim3667 That is true. The film's director, Samuel Fuller based it on his own experiences as an Infantry man In the 1st U.S. Infantry Division, the famous "The Big Red One" in WW II. Fuller wrote a novel, The Big Red One that includes lots of incidents that was not in the movie. Also, except for a few Battle of the Bulge scenes, the entire film was shot in Israel and all the extras including those playing German soldiers were Israelis !
Samuel Fuller liked to use actors that were veterans especially those who had been in combat for his war films. He did not want to use actors like John Wayne who had never been in uniform.
I saw him in Wild Ones and watched him completely steal every scene he was in with Brando. That and watching a trailer of The Big Heat convinced me he's one of the very finest actors of our time.
Check out Gorky Park with William Hurt and Lee Marvin
What a charming man Lee Marvin was.
I don't know how to put this, but Lee Marvin has always reminded me of one those very last Mohicans, or one of those last remaining dinosaurs, from the Alpha male generation breed. He had so much class and yet he had a lot of charm and charisma. Thank! you for this download, on the RUclips channel. Johnny, Montréal, Canada!
Lee Marvin was one of my all time favorites.
They don't make em like that anymore.
RIP Lee Marvin!!
Gone but no forgotten through your movies.
Gonna go watch POINT BLANK!!
🗣He was a beast in that movie!!👹💀
🗣👤♊
The resonance in his voice. Class act.
That baleful bass voice. Amazing instrument for any actor.
Incredible actor....loved him in Bad day at black rock....and the wandrin' star.....RIP both of you
Martin Platt
He's a real bastard in that! Point Blank is my favourite.
Just that scene of him arriving at LAX was worth the price of admission.
I remember the first time I walked down that concourse. I HAD to make that sound with my shoes!
I never got straight whether, after Lee's death, Boorman, the director, gave the shoes to his widow, or she gave them to him. Either way, it's a poignant story.
Here’s a wonderful academy award winning actor. And a bedroom voice to die for! The way he sung “I Was Born Under A Wandrin Star” in Paint Your Wagon!
And
A Horse That Was Built For Two
Thank you for ur service and God bless.....R.I.P.
Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou, The Dirty Dozen .... Lee Marvin will always be one of my favorites. He had such presence on the screen and off. My kind of actor.
Lee Marvin the rough masculine voice . Great actor. You are missed but we still watch your movies. Great man. .My favorite movie was when you were on the island with a Japanese pilot and you 2 were it. You finally RESPECTED each other
Marvin was great in The Dirty Dozen and he had scenes in Point Blank that were incredible. Of course, some of his best characters were in the John Wayne trilogies: The Comancheros, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (brilliant villain) and Donovan's Reef. I hate to sound like an old man with a cliche -- but there are no actors today that are Lee Marvin. None. Absolutely none.
John LaStrada all great films
*The Big Red One*
@@GrymsArchive - Yes. Absolutely.
@@GrymsArchive Writer/Director Sam Fuller wrote the part of the sergeant SPECIFICALLY for Lee in that movie. And, Robert Carradine's character was a stand-in for Fuller himself, when he was young, chronicling his experiences in the First Infantry during WW2.
He hated the dirty dozen. Said it was totally phony.
Lee Marvin. What a star. They don't make them like him any more. And so modest too. Kind of sad thinking these guys are now all long gone.
Real men existed. Don't forget it.
Interesting how many of the major male stars of that era did front-line service in WWII. No hiding in the rear-echelon.....Joe Kennedy Jr. got himself blown up AFTER he completed his required number of missions in bombers....Refused to go home....
What an embarressing interview, Mr Marvin handled it with professional aplomb. Terry you were an intelectual by-pass. Mr Marvin you are a Star.
I agree. Every question could have been answered yes or no. V poor questioning. Thank God Marvin expanded his answers.
Exactly. “Are you tough?” What the hell was he supposed to say to that?
@@stephenreeds3672 : Stupid interviewer ! And they said his show lasted 10 yrs in Britain ?
If his show, (and the exact same show) was aired in the US, imo it wouldn't have lasted even a year !
I almost didn't watch the whole interview it was so very poor !
Terry Wogan couldn't break the top off a boiled egg . This interview does him no favours . Lee Marvin on the other hand . . .
One word sums up Mr Marvin ; Granite .
Totally disagree, just a light hearted interview, which Marvin didn't seem to mind.
A fine actor with that unmistakable voice...witty, and with a great sense of humor.
Wow! Enjoyed to watch, how smart and funny "Liberty Valence" actually was. Brilliant interview!
Mr.Marvin was always one of My favorites. Will truly miss Him
I really enjoyed his work as an actor, and of course his real life came through on screen for his military roles.
My late father served in the South Pacific WWII and many of his friends.
When I watched these war movies with Lee Marvin and others, I really believed they were there at that moment, filming the war, of course it can't capture the reality, but you could believe these men, and I enjoyed their acting.
Lee Marvin is a fine actor and a helluva man!!
Compare this guy, to the fools we have to put up with today,,,
True that!
well said sir, well said indeed.
And look how elegantly he puts up with the stupid interviewer.
How true, how true. Even in the quality of the actors there is a sure sign of decline in our society.
fools...lol your too kind Max !....
My late Uncle Vincent knew Lee Marvin in the 24th Marines. Vince was 2/24 Marvin was 3/24. Semper Fi.
TheDustysix I smell the shit of a bull.
No Bull. A Rifle Battalion is about 1100 men. Uncle Vince was a 60mm Mortar team leader. Roi-Namor Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima.
They are probably up there raising Hell in bar .
@@louisfriend1851 better check your underpants are clean then . Lee Marvin must have met 10,000 's of people in his lifetime. A man so charismatic would generate memories for all of them . Those stories pass down in family folklore. I don't doubt him for a second .
Try to be a better man buddy .
No, Lee Marvin was in the 4th Marine division.
I didn’t know he was a marine nor had a Purple Heart ! Congrats!
Lee Mavin was tough and honest and funny.
Yes very funny as well, look at his work in cat ballou.
One of my favourite actors.
He didn't have to act tough on screen... here's a tough man for sure.
My older son is named after Lee Marvin. My late wife and I loved watching this guy.
US MARINE,CLASS ALL THE WAY,KNOWS HONOR,DUTY,AND DEDICATION,INCREDIBLE ACTOR,INCREDIBLE MAN
Interesting story from the bio written by Marvin's wife.
After being wounded on Saipan, Marvin woke up on a hospital ship. When he regained consciousness, "Moonlight Serenade" was playing on the phonograph and a nurse was asking him what flavor of ice cream he would like. All he could feel was guilt, because his buddies were still fighting on the island. All but two were killed and, for the rest of his life, Marvin could never listen to "Moonlight Serenade".
Sadly Missed , Legend ..as a Kid his movie roles are still worth watching ... today ....
Lee saw his buddies blow apart in the war. It haunted him aĺl his life.
Nothing like old school. It’s the best school!!!
“The first thing you know” is brilliant as helped me recover from my brain injury! Be brave & love your hero till thee end!”
a true legend
Eddie Campion marvin loved brando acting scills
IMP, you got that right. Lee Marvin was a Marine Scout/Sniper in WW2, seriously wounded on the island of Saipan, killed a lot of japanese.
how does one go back to normal life after that? very interesting
It affected Lee Marvin for the rest of his life.
He didn't kill enough though .
An interviewers ideal guest, informative, witty and humble. Add to that a great actor who was unique.
Lee Marvin One of the ''Heaviest'' of all time.
"you look more like Lee Marvin than Lee Marvin" . Not one Terry's more enlightened observations! Poor Lee, not so much wounded in the Pacific, more wounded in the specifics!
The interviewer "Terry" was a polite idiot but Lee took it all in stride, what a class act.
Lee Marvin and Christopher Lee. Real Badasses to the eternal silver screen of Badassdom.
MOS 0317 normally a second military occupation, scout sniper. I trained with the M40A1, and a 79 day course in k bay Oahu. Shooting center of 9" pie plates at a thousand yards. 30-06 kicks and you need a shooter jacket big time. But a person being shot at that distance, a dead man! The training is intense, many in first week rock out from just not wanting it bad enough, or just cannot shoot accurate enough to qualify! Lee probably has many stories to tell from the battle field in a shooter nest!
Lee Marvin was actually a true scout, for the most part, during WW2. He was inserted onto around 20 different islands in the Marshalls during that campaign early in the morning to scout out the Japanese bunkers and strongholds. He was hit by a machine gun bullet close to his sciatica nerve, and also in the foot, while on Saipan. That is doubtless why he was always squirming in his chair in interviews. Only around 5 or so guys in his unit of about 250 on Saipan even survived the war.
My ex-wife's uncle fought with the 27 Infantry division on Saipan and he told me they never, ever took prisoners. Shot them all dead because they did not trust the Japanese to actually surrender. They would emerge from their bunker or fox hole and produce a grenade from don't ask where and take as many GIs as they could with them. Saipan was a terrible place.
Rest in peace Sir
May God bless you always and you was a true gentleman with character and honesty on and off the screen.
SEMPER FIDELIS
What a genuine classy guy with a great sense of humor! Earnest Borgnine, who had been his good friend, said that people didn't know that Lee Marvin was (quote) "an old softy". Lee Marvin >always< brought real substance to the movies he was in; this interview shows it.
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A very fine actor and excelled in his profession. And to me all of them are heroes who fought in that war. Freedom is never free. R.I.P. Mr. Marvin
One of the true greats.
Missed these old, great men of the movies. Listen to this booming voice.
WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From a mad keen 74yo Aussie fan.
What a fantastic person & actor.
The world retains this kind of man, let alone actor any more.
2 years and 9 months later he would leave us forever, R.i.J Sir Marvin
my kid was born in '97 and he loves Lee Marvin.
Summer of ‘74 I was working as staff for the Malibu Drug Store (and soda shop) that used to be across from the Malibu Colony. Lee suddenly appeared at the large glass doors looking like he was wearing pajamas … white backgrounds with mis-matching cowboys on one and the other with sailboats. And his presence was HUGE! I will never forget the quiet humor.
Thank you Mr. Marvin. ,I to this day, catch you on the screen every chance I get. Safe travels and no more shots to the rear I hope.
Never saw lee laugh before. Good😉
David Scott Hi. Actually, he laughed quite a lot. He was a lovely, generous, private man.
Susie Guglielmino 😊
One of the best actors of all time to interview.
What a complete gent and a good sport too boot. A truly great actor who starred in some great movies.
I was entering a popular restaurant in Malibu in the early eighties with some family members. Sitting at the bar, drinking a neat Scotch, was Lee Marvin, by himself. He had recently lost his 'Palamony' suite to his ex live-in girlfriend. Lee was one of my hero's from the movies and I was also aware that he had served and fought with the Marine Corps on Iwo Jima during WW2. I wanted so badly to walk up and say hello, shake his hand and tell him how much I admired him, but out of respect for his privacy, I didn't. I don't regret my decision either. Interestingly, as we were seated, my cousin Pat nudged me and nodded towards a table behind us. Sitting there, with his then wife, who was devouring a steak, was Rod Stewart, also nursing a Scotch!
Good for you. I'd like to think I would have done the same.
That's a really good story. Thanks for sharing.
Jeffrey Collier £
Lee Marvin was not on Iwo Jima. He was in the Marshall Islands and also on Saipan, where he was wounded and eventually released from the Marines in mid-1945 because of his sciatica nerve problems from the machine gun bullet that hit him in his posterior.
Donovan's Reef - Must see movie!
John S. yes
Wayne and marvin didnt get along, wayne was a conservative and marvin was a liberal.
I liked this man! He was a great actor!