During his decades-long career in film and television, Lee Marvin played everything from a badass Chicago cop in the 1957–60 TV series M Squad to the demanding leader of convicts pressed into service for a guerrilla mission in The Dirty Dozen (1967) to the guilt-racked traveling salesman Hickey in John Frankenheimer’s 1973 film of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh.
But as we celebrate his centennial—he was born Feb. 19, 1924 in New York City — we remain most impressed by Marvin’s work in westerns. Here are some of the late Oscar-winner’s best efforts in the genre.
(1956): Director Budd Boetticher gave Marvin a major visibility-raising career boost by casting him as Bill
