lee marvin tribute...

They Don’t Make ‘Em Like That No More. Despite his rough and tough persona, the actor was way more than a character actor. On a day like today in 1924, Lee Marvin was born, from the generation that started out as badasses because of their features and ended up as established actors. Lee played leaders of men no one else could possibly lead; cold-hearted villains; tortured husbands and clownish louts. He could beat John Wayne in a fistfight, rival Marlon Brando in a motorcycle gang, and go mano a mano with Toshiro Mifune for an entire film. A man whose bark was bad but whose bite was worse. And then still have a top-selling single with I was Born Under a Wanderin’ Star.