Lee’s TV Show appearance: From the earliest days of live television to the the TV-movies of the late 1980s, Lee Marvin had been a permanent fixture in America’s living rooms in spite of his screen success. An entire chapter of Lee Marvin Point Blank is dedicated to his TV performances in which he proved to be more versatile than he ever was on the big screen. Rather ironic considering he hated the medium of television. His versatility allowed him to do such things as …..
play romantic love scenes as shown above with Patricia Donahue in “The Last Reunion” episode of GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER.
He gave a poignant performance as a brain damaged boxer who must choose between the age-old conflict of his life or his pride in 
THE SCHILTZ PLAYHOUSE episode from September 1959 entitled “A Fistful Of Love.”
As manned space flight became a reality, he also played a troubled astronaut alongside E.G. Marshall in
The DESILU PLAYHOUSE production entitled “Man In Orbit” in May of 1959.
His physical appearance had him playing bad guys in westerns in the movies but on TV he played
a western drifter in the title role of “The Easy-Going Man” episode of NBC’s COLGATE WESTERN THEATER.
As his success slowly grew, he was not above appearing in other types of shows simply as himself, such as
a short-lived game show entitled YOU DON’T SAY with host Tom Kennedy (center) and fellow celebrity contestant, Beverly Garland.
Even after his film success in the mid-sixties he continued to make appearances on such unlikely venues as
Bob Hope’s comedy specials and as a host of a 1976 TV special highlighting the work of
of such legendary stuntmen as Dar Robinson (right).
