Bavaria Commercial with Lee van Cleef

A commercial of the Dutch beer brewer Bavaria starring Lee van Cleef

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Bier
• commercial
• Beer
• Lee
• Cleef
• Bavaria
• reclame

[dawnpatrol6]

I was the DP on this commercial. We shot it in Fiddletown Ca. in an original old west era bar. Getting a chance to meet Lee van Cleef is something I will never forget. Lee had cancer and died I believe about two weeks after we shot this. He was wonderful to everyone there that day. He was so fast on the draw that we had to slow him down. From the holster to the muzzle blast was only about 1 frame of film. He was using special loads like small buckshot to smash the bottles.

[Paladin1441]

These young actors who think they're bad assed today could learn from men like this legend and Jack Palance! When they passed on along with many of the other legends..The age of western went with them..It would be miraculous if they can bring back the same caliber of westerns these men stared in,. HOLLYWOOD has lost its way! They need to regroup and find out what people really want to see instead of the bullshit thats on today!

[AtorTheFlyingEagle]

@dawnpatrol6 Cancer? All sources indicate he died from a heart attack.

[snoopeZayko]

@Paladin1441 Impossible man , the only way the good old westerns will come back to life is if the legendary actors of the '60-'70s will come back to life , Oh and lets not forget Sergio Leone who defined the western and gave it its true shape and charm .

[martijnjanssen1967]

You should also check out the latest Bavaria commercial with Hugh Hefner. Bavaria commercial - Hugh Hefner [full version HD] v=9O0x154nWyA

[ThePaparhino]

I was the art director for this spot and I bet no one knows that Lee actually shot the bottles! Special effects couldn't get a squib to work on a traveling bottle so what they did was to open the blank cartridges and put six grains of sand in each bullet. When Marsh, the bartender was ducking, he was really ducking! They had to slow him down so they could see his draw on camera.

[JohnWayneTV]

@dawnpatrol6 Awsome commercial! I wasn't aware he had cancer. The actual cause of death is listed as a heart attack on wikipedia and imdb. Anyways, thanks for the commercial and sharing the story behind it!

[MrGuitarandvocals]

@fonzi0was0cool

You need to kill yourself!

[Tomhot89]

He was born with a gun!

[roaringrockets]

Van Cleef looks like he is dying, and was... but what an icon of the old west! No one today is even remotely like him. My antihero!

[mert017cop]

THE GOOD THE BAD THE UGLY. THE BEST!!!!!!!!

[normanby100]

Sand irradiated from the atomic testings was imported for some scenes and it is believed this is what caused so many on that film, including John Wayne and Susan Hayward to die of cancer. Nosher Powell, a stunt man on that film, once said he and Lee Van Cleef were the only 2 on that film not to contract cancer, mostly because they had not had any contact with this sand.