Marvin, Lee.

  His father was a direct descendant of Matthew Marvin, Sr., who emigrated from Great Bentley, Essex, England in 1635 and helped found Hartford, Connecticut. Marvin studied violin when he was young. As a teenager, Marvin “spent weekends and spare time hunting deer, puma, wild turkey and bobwhite in the wilds of the then-uncharted Everglades.” He attended St. Leo Preparatory College in St. Leo, Florida  after being expelled from several schools for bad behavior. Marvin left school to join the United States Marine Corps , serving as a Scout Sniper in the 4^th Marine Division, nickname “Fighting Fourth” . Tani Masuo, He was wounded  in action during the World War II Battle of Saipan, during which most of his platoon were killed.

   Marvin’s wound, in the buttocks, was from machine gun fire, which severed his sciatic nerve. He was awarded the Purple Heart  and was given a medical discharge with the rank of Private First Class. After the war, while working as a plumber’s assistant at a local community theatre in Upstate New York, Marvin was asked to replace an actor who had fallen ill during rehearsals. He then began an amateur Off-Broadway acting career in New York City and served as an understudy in Broadway productions. In 1950, Marvin moved to Hollywood. He found work in supporting roles, and from the beginning was cast in various war films. As a decorated combat veteran, Marvin was a natural in war dramas, where he frequently assisted the director and other in realistically portraying infantry movement, arranging costumes, and even adjusting war surplus military prop firearms. His debut was in You’re in the Navy Now. A father of four, Marvin was married twice. His first marriage to Betty Ebeling began in February 1951 and ended in divorce on 05-01-1967; during this time his hobbies included sport fishing off the Baja California coast and duck hunting along the Mexican border near Mexicali. He and Ebeling had a son, Christopher (born in 1952), and three daughters: Courtenay (born 1954), Cynthia (born 1956) and Claudia (born 1958). Claudia passed away on 27-11-2012. Betty Maria Ebeling   died 09-03-2018 age 89 in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California, USA  Marvin was married to Pamela Feeley (who had been his girlfriend in Woodstock New York, a quarter century earlier) from 18-10-1970 until his death. Pamela Feely died 02-04-2018, age 88, in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona.. During the 1970s, Marvin resided off and on in Woodstock, caring for his dying father, and would make regular trips to Australia to engage in fishing for marlin at Cairns and Great White Shark at Port Fairy. In 1975 Marvin and Pamela moved to Tucson, where he lived until his death. Marvin was a liberal Democrat who opposed the Vietnam War and declared his support for the gay rights movement in a January 1969 interview with playboy magazine. He publicly endorsed John Fitzgerald Kennedy       in the 1960 presidential election.