Character from The Dollars Trilogy by Sergio Leone / United Artists
A former Confederate officer turned bounty hunter — meticulously professional, extensively armed, and pursuing El Indio for reasons that have nothing to do with the reward money.
Mortimer is methodical and patient in the way of someone who has been planning something for a long time and is finally close to the end of it. He is the better bounty hunter than Manco in most technical respects — more experienced, more prepared, more systematic — and their partnership is a negotiation between equals who recognize each other as useful. The pocket watch is the tell. He carries it, he winds it, he opens it and looks at the photograph inside when he doesn't know anyone is watching. His sister. El Indio killed her family and she killed herself. Mortimer has been tracking El Indio since the war ended. His code: he will not endanger a civilian, will not cheat a partner, will not finish a job for money that should be finished for free. He is the closest thing the trilogy has to a traditional western hero — which means he costs more than the Man with No Name, who has no such constraints.
Older, distinguished, with the bearing of a military man who has kept his posture through everything that happened after the war. Lee Van Cleef's lean face and hard eyes — the same eyes he uses later for Angel Eyes, but aimed at a different purpose. Carries an extraordinary collection of guns in a specialized case: he has prepared for this encounter the way a professional prepares for anything.
Also known as: Colonel Mortimer, Mortimer, Colonel Douglas Mortimer