tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388554970113771183.post5304888254264483827..comments2024-03-25T12:58:24.299-07:00Comments on TheBad.net - The Lee Van Cleef Blog: "Van Cleef Notes" - 2006 Entertainment Weekly Articleaaron@theBad.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07610876186258437366noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388554970113771183.post-72710385496180599642012-06-08T18:19:20.358-07:002012-06-08T18:19:20.358-07:00I my post had a mistake:-) Nowhere to Hide was NOT...I my post had a mistake:-) Nowhere to Hide was NOT picked up. It was to be a NBC TV series starring Lee Van Cleef, Charles Robinson and Russell Johnson titled "Skanlon".BobOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18271946822465853875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388554970113771183.post-38795780470044285762012-06-08T18:14:33.790-07:002012-06-08T18:14:33.790-07:00Well this guy in interesting but wrong on a few po...Well this guy in interesting but wrong on a few points. Lee Van Cleef never dropped out. He continued to work as an actor right up to For A Few Dollars More EXCEPT after the 1950's, it was mostly in television. Indeed Lee went right back to doing television work when For A Few Dollars More wrapped. Strong evidence that at that point, Lee didn't see himself becoming a big star in Italy and Spain in just a year. Lee did several TV jobs including Larado, Gunsmoke, My Mother the Car and Branded before he was asked by Leone at Clint Eastwood's suggestion to return to Europe for Good, Bad and Ugly. I have a hunch that Lee knew that he was going to do Big Gundown for For A Few Dollars More/Good, Bad and Ugly producer Alberto Grimaldi. Once I read an interview with a TV director who was doing a three part Branded and he mentioned Lee. He said Chuck Conners had helped arrange for Lee to have a part in the show so he could come up with airfare to Europe and Lee told him that he had to go over there and try it and see if it pans out because if he stayed in Hollywood he would died. Said Lee said he just doesn't work enough now to pay his bills.<br /><br />To help pay his bills, Lee began painting and remodeling houses between TV jobs and NO movie jobs had come his way since 1962. This is 1966, so it had been four years since anybody in Hollywood had offered a film role to Lee.<br /><br />And Lee did come back to the states in 1969 for Barquero and next he did another US film "El Condor" which was shot in Spain at some of the same places as the Leone films and most other SWs. But for some reason, Lee didn't catch on like Bronson and Eastwood. So it was back to Europe and for the rest of his career it was working mostly there but always ready to work in the states when the offer was there. 1972: The Magnificent Seven Ride was a US film shot in and around Los Angles. Nowhere to Hide was a made for TV film that served as a pilot for something Lee had always wanted. To star in his own US television series. But it was picked up by NBC. In 1979 Lee did a small part on the US TV special "When the West Was Fun" starring Glen Ford. 1980 and 81 Lee worked in the US on The Octagon and Escape From New York and finally got another TV job in 1983 which was The Master.<br /><br />Oh well. It is funny to read things with mistakes. Us Lee Van Cleef fanatics are the only ones who can pick out these mistakes I guess.BobOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18271946822465853875noreply@blogger.com