Van Heflin
Born: 1910-12-13 in Walters, Oklahoma, USA
Died: 1971-07-23
Known For: Acting
Biography
Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin, Jr. 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).
Filmography
2019
- Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress as Self (archive footage)
1997
- Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line as Self (archive footage)
1991
- Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire as Self (archive footage)
1974
- That's Entertainment! as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1973
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli as Self (archive footage)
1971
- The Last Child as Senator Quincy George
1970
- Airport as D. O. Guerrero
1969
- The Big Bounce as Sam Mirakian
1968
- The Ruthless Four as Sam Cooper
- Certain Honorable Men as Champ Donohue
1967
- The Man Outside as Bill MacLean
1966
- Stagecoach as Marshal Curly Wilcox
- The Thin Blue Line as Self - Narrator (voice)
1965
- The Greatest Story Ever Told as Bar Amand
- Once a Thief as Inspector Mike Vido
- The Bold Men as Narrator
- The Teen-Age Revolution as Narrator/Host
- Pro Football: Mayhem on a Sunday Afternoon
1963
- Cry of Battle as Joe Trent
1961
- Ricochet as Sergeant Paul Maxon
- The Wastrel as Duncan Bell
1960
- Five Branded Women as Velko
- Under Ten Flags as Captain Bernhard Rogge
1959
- They Came to Cordura as Sgt. John Chawk
1958
- Tempest as Emelyan Pugachov
- Gunman's Walk as Lee Hackett
1957
- 3:10 to Yuma as Dan Evans
- The Dark Side of the Earth as Col. Sten
1956
- Patterns as Fred Staples
- Playhouse 90 as Bill Kilcoyne
1955
- Battle Cry as Major Sam Huxley
- Count Three and Pray as Luke Fargo
1954
- The Raid as Maj. Neal Benton
- Black Widow as Peter Denver
- Woman's World as Jerry Talbot
- Tanganyika as John Gale
- A Star Is Born World Premiere as Self
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Shane as Joe Starrett
- Wings of the Hawk as Irish Gallager
- South of Algiers as Nicholas Chapman
1952
- This Is Your Life as Self
- My Son John as Stedman
1951
- The Prowler as Webb Garwood
- Tomahawk as Bridger
- Week-End with Father as Brad Stubbs
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Joseph
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as Dr. Martin Arrowsmith
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- University U.S.A. as Narrator
1949
- Madame Bovary as Charles Bovary
- Act of Violence as Frank R. Enley
- East Side, West Side as Mark Dwyer
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- The Three Musketeers as Athos
- Tap Roots as Keith Alexander
- B.F.'s Daughter as Thomas W. 'Tom' Brett
- The Secret Land as Narrator
1947
- Possessed as David Sutton
- Green Dolphin Street as Timothy Haslam
1946
- The Strange Love of Martha Ivers as Sam Masterson
- Till the Clouds Roll By as James I. Hessler
1945
- Land and Live in the Desert as Narrator (voice)
1944
- Land and Live in the Jungle as 1st Lieutenant Lynn Harrison
1943
- Presenting Lily Mars as John Thornway
1942
- Tennessee Johnson as Andrew Johnson
- Seven Sweethearts as Henry Taggart
- Grand Central Murder as 'Rocky' Custer
- Kid Glove Killer as Gordon McKay
1941
- Johnny Eager as Jeff Hartnett
- H.M. Pulham, Esq. as Bill King
- The Feminine Touch as Elliott Morgan
1940
- Santa Fe Trail as Rader
1939
- Back Door to Heaven as John Shelley
1937
- Annapolis Salute as Clay V. Parker
- Saturday's Heroes as Val
- The Outcasts of Poker Flat as Rev. Samuel Woods
- Flight from Glory as George Wilson
1936
- A Woman Rebels as Lord Gerald Waring Gaythorne