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Returning to the stage, he made his Broadway debut in "Billy Budd", and after a succession of small TV roles, moved to Hollywood, where he began playing heavies and cops in roles of increasing size and frequency. He landed an extra role in Henry Hathaway's You're in the Navy Now (1951), and found his role expanded when Hathaway took a liking to him. He was immediately stricken with a love for the theater and went to New York City, where he studied and played small roles in stock and Off-Broadway. While repairing a toilet at the local community theater, he was asked to replace an ailing actor in a rehearsal. He received a medical discharge and got menial work as a plumber's apprentice in Woodstock, NY. In the battle of Saipan in June 1944, he was wounded in the buttocks by Japanese fire which severed his sciatic nerve. Marine Corps at the beginning of World War II. Dismissed there as well, he enlisted in the U.S. His parents took him to Florida, where he attended St. The young Marvin was thrown out of dozens of schools for incorrigibility. Prematurely white-haired character star who began as a supporting player of generally vicious demeanor, then metamorphosed into a star of both action and drama projects, Lee Marvin was born in New York City, the son of Courtenay Washington (Davidge), a fashion writer, and Lamont Waltman Marvin, an advertising executive.
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