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