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There is no related content available. Ad Blocker Detected. Thanks for visiting! He turned down the title role of Patton , which won George C. Scott an Oscar. His favorite war movies he made were Hell in the Pacific and The Big Red One , because they showed war in a sufficiently real and unpleasant light.

Speaking of movies Marvin didn't do, the list is remarkable. He turned down the role of Quint in Jaws it went to Robert Shaw. Marvin was asked by John Boorman to play alongside Marlon Brando in Deliverance , but convinced the director that he and Brando were too old the parts went to Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds. A true military hero entombed in Arlington Cemetery pinterest. In the suit, a woman claimed that while she lived with Marvin for six years, he promised her half of his fortune.

Toward the end of his life, Marvin enjoyed the sweet silence of the desert. There are a bunch of coyotes around the house. I like them. Toggle navigation. More from Groovy History. Share On Facebook. He is an avid traveler, surfer and lover of NBA basketball. He wishes he could have grown up in the free love era! Remember the Good Times. Fall in love again Famous Faces.

He then drove off in an old pickup truck. Colorful guy for sure. Sorry to hear about your Dad, I keep my Dad's photo albums of his hunting and fishing trips and go through them every now and then myself, so I know what you meant. Muledeer, ask your friend if he still has that My dad told me it has a white streak on the stock where a horse rubbed against an aspen tree. The white dust was pushed into the grain. Another part to the story, that is kind of mentioned in the story, is it was a elk and mule deer hunt in early fall.

My dad told me they were hunting during deer season, elk wasn't open. Lee's schedule didn't work for the elk season. The guides were a game warden and a sheriff's deputy. There was a Sony camera crew there to get the story. The whole "let the biggest one live" was a marketing ploy. They wanted to get hunters into the area. And the one he shot had just shot his load in a cow, he waited until he finished, was the gentleman thing to do.

My granddad was told what booze to have on hand for Lee, but when Lee found out my grandpa didn't drink, he put it all away and didn't drink on the ranch. He did smoke some big cigars, the one that my dad put a cigar load into, got a big laugh around the fire.

My granddad was in the army and was in the Battle of the Bulge, Lee Marvin was a Marine and was wounded in the Pacific. They had fun swapping military tales at night. This is all per my dad, who from that time on, was a huge Lee Marvin fan. He raised me watching all his movies.

That's some really cool history. That was when Hollywood actors were men, educated, and war heros. I remember watching Carson one night when Lee was the guest. They were talking about WWll, and Marvin said That Bob Sherran sp or Captain Kangaroo was the bravest man he ever saw, said he was directing troops on Iwo Jima taking fire and still standing there.