Van Heflin
Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin, Jr. (December 13, 1910 – July 23, 1971) was an American film and theatre actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string of roles as a leading man. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Johnny Eager (1942).
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.951 |
Birthday | 1910-12-13 |
Place of Birth | Walters, Oklahoma, USA |
Also Known As | Emmett Evan Heflin Jr., Ван Хефлин, Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin Jr., |
1940
Santa Fe Trail
5.6/45
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assign...
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Santa Fe Trail
1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told
6.389/176
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. M...
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
1953
Shane
7.412/575
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
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Shane
1970
Airport
6.394/369
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
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Airport
1947
Possessed
6.869/80
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
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Possessed
1948
Tap Roots
6.6/8
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the con...
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Tap Roots
1951
The Prowler
6.846/81
Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is assigned to investigate the case of a prowler who st...
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The Prowler
1949
Act of Violence
6.8/79
A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him w...
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Act of Violence
1946
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
7.09/161
Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. S...
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1941
Johnny Eager
6.013/39
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
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Johnny Eager
1957
3:10 to Yuma
7.194/340
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's ga...
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3:10 to Yuma
1948
The Three Musketeers
6.722/133
Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.
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The Three Musketeers
1965
Once a Thief
6.333/21
Ex-convict Eddie and his wife, Kristine, attempt to build a new life for themselves and their daughter Kathy in San Francisco, but police officer Mike...
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Once a Thief
1958
Gunman's Walk
6.7/52
A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.
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Gunman's Walk
1943
Presenting Lily Mars
6.1/9
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
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Presenting Lily Mars
1954
Black Widow
6.3/45
A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.
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Black Widow
1939
Back Door to Heaven
5/2
The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".
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Back Door to Heaven
1949
Madame Bovary
6.7/45
After marrying small-town doctor Charles Bovary, Emma becomes tired of her limited social status and begins to have affairs, first with the young Leon...
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Madame Bovary
1951
Tomahawk
6.6/17
In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and fort in territory ceded by previous treaty to the...
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Tomahawk
1966
Stagecoach
5.9/39
A group of unlikely travelling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They include a drunken doctor, a bar girl who's been thr...
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Stagecoach
1942
Grand Central Murder
5.9/22
Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a...
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Grand Central Murder
1959
They Came to Cordura
6.5/27
An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommended soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion...
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They Came to Cordura
1942
Kid Glove Killer
6.2/19
Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.
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Kid Glove Killer
1946
Till the Clouds Roll By
5.6/22
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists,...
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Till the Clouds Roll By
1942
Tennessee Johnson
6.2/7
The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early...
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Tennessee Johnson
1955
Count Three and Pray
4.8/13
A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War.
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Count Three and Pray
1955
Battle Cry
5.6/21
The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story centers on a major who guides the raw recruits fr...
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Battle Cry
1952
My Son John
5.2/8
In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.
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My Son John
1954
The Raid
6.482/28
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie...
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The Raid
1948
B.F.'s Daughter
6.3/8
Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.
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B.F.'s Daughter
1968
The Ruthless Four
6.1/17
This superior Spaghetti western scrutinizes the greed and paranoia that afflict four men as they struggle among themselves to unearth a fortune in gol...
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The Ruthless Four
1941
The Feminine Touch
5.1/7
A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind Rus...
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The Feminine Touch
1956
Patterns
7.278/45
Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Br...
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Patterns
1941
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
6.8/8
A man who lived his life as he was told he should, not as he would have chosen to, is brought out of his shell by a beautiful young woman.
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H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1942
Seven Sweethearts
7/2
Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven dau...
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Seven Sweethearts
1949
East Side, West Side
7/20
A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.
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East Side, West Side
1947
Green Dolphin Street
6.1/17
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie...
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Green Dolphin Street
1953
South of Algiers
6/4
Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.
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South of Algiers
1969
The Big Bounce
5.2/8
A Vietnam veteran and ex-con is persuaded by a shady woman to rob a $50,000 payroll account on a California produce farm. But who is playing who?
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The Big Bounce
1960
Five Branded Women
6/19
Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fe...
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Five Branded Women
1954
Woman's World
7.1/16
Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto indus...
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Woman's World
1948
The Secret Land
5.9/8
This documentary, filmed entirely by military photographers, recounts the U.S. Navy's 1946-47 expedition to Antarctica, known as Operation High Jump....
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The Secret Land
1963
Cry of Battle
4.2/5
During World War II, the spoiled son of a wealthy businessman finds himself involved in the guerrilla movement fighting against the Japanese, and find...
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Cry of Battle
1960
Under Ten Flags
5.3/16
"Under Ten Flags" is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce raider Atlantis, a converted Auxilliary Cruiser, and he...
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Under Ten Flags
1937
Flight from Glory
5.5/4
Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney Bou...
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Flight from Glory
1937
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
6/2
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1951
Week-End with Father
5.8/4
Two single parents shock their children by falling in love.
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Week-End with Father
1971
The Last Child
7/4
In a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very draconia...
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The Last Child
1937
Annapolis Salute
6/2
The adventures of three disparate cadets at the US Naval Academy--one the son of a Navy enlisted man, the other the scion of a wealthy family, the thi...
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Annapolis Salute
1937
Saturday's Heroes
7/1
College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.
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Saturday's Heroes
1954
Tanganyika
7.5/2
A landowner in colonial Africa leads a safari through Nukumbi territory in order to capture an escaped criminal.
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Tanganyika
1974
That's Entertainment!
7.3/56
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
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That's Entertainment!
1967
The Man Outside
6/1
Bill MacLean is a former CIA agent living in London. He had been fired when he stuck up for one of the men in his command who turned out to be branded...
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The Man Outside
1961
The Wastrel
4.5/4
A wealthy and self-serving man, sets out on a perilous ocean voyage with his son. An unexpected incident with the vessel causes him to reflect on his...
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The Wastrel
1936
A Woman Rebels
5.8/14
A Victorian-era woman struggles to break free of the moral codes established by society and enforced by her father.
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A Woman Rebels
1958
Tempest
6.167/6
A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he c...
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Tempest
1953
Wings of the Hawk
5.1/6
Gringo miner Gallager is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11 when corrupt administrator Ruiz appropriates his mine. Gallager saves the life...
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Wings of the Hawk
1957
The Dark Side of the Earth
0/0
A drama set in 1956, during the unsuccessful Hungarian uprising against the Russians.
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The Dark Side of the Earth
1991
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
5.7/3
Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90), a Hollywood legend.
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Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1954
A Star Is Born World Premiere
8/2
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Acade...
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A Star Is Born World Premiere
1966
The Thin Blue Line
0/0
The work of the US police force and the problem of fighting rising crime across the country.
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The Thin Blue Line
1944
Land and Live in the Jungle
0/0
In this World War II military training film, a B-25 crew bails out over the jungle, and the pilot is separated from the rest of of his crew. The two g...
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Land and Live in the Jungle
2019
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
7.7/23
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war an...
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Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
1985
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
5.6/11
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
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George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1945
Land and Live in the Desert
0/0
Documentary short film depicting the correct methods of surviving the crash landing of a military aircraft in the desert. Methods of conserving water,...
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Land and Live in the Desert
1968
Certain Honorable Men
0/0
The protégé of a powerful congressman discovers his boss's corruption.
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Certain Honorable Men
1965
Pro Football: Mayhem on a Sunday Afternoon
0/0
Mayhem on a Sunday Afternoon was the last of three documentaries William Friedkin made for producer David Wolper. It concerned the world of pro footba...
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Pro Football: Mayhem on a Sunday Afternoon
1973
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
0/0
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1961
Ricochet
0/0
An army sergeant blames himself for causing a rookie's death during training.
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Ricochet
1965
The Teen-Age Revolution
0/0
Documentary about teenage life in the mid-60s.
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The Teen-Age Revolution
1997
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
7/1
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellen...
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
1965
The Bold Men
0/0
A documentary about men who are courageous enough to risk their lives undertaking challenges, sports-related and not, that are at the limit of human c...
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