His early performances included playing gang leaders in both The Big Heat (1953) and The Wild One (1954) before a surprise Oscar for his role in spoof Western Cat Ballou (1965) elevated him to true big-star status. However, his status as an ex-Marine would follow him throughout a film career forged on a series of memorable ‘heavies’ and hard-man heroes. I walked up to him and he said: ‘What kept ya?’ We hadn’t seen each other for ten years!”īiography: American star of major Hollywood film noir and Westerns, Marvin was invalided out of World War II after being shot in the buttocks. I got out of the car he still didn’t move or speak. He reminded me of a guard dog summing you up. As I came into range I could see him sitting on the wall outside, his legs dangling as he waited, and watching the car come around.
Get here.’ It was Sunday morning as I drove to his hacienda, high in the rugged mountains of the desert. ‘Sure,’ he said when I called him, ‘Come along.
David Steen recalls: “Some years later I was in Arizona on an assignment and decided to look him up.
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