Date of birth: 1910-12-13
Place of birth: Walters, Oklahoma, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Emmett Evan Heflin Jr., ون هفلین

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).

1940-12-20
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, G

1953-04-23
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and ra

1965-04-09
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is give

1970-03-25
An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots

1947-05-29
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor th

1948-08-25
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses

1951-05-25
Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is as

1946-08-19
Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious M

1949-01-22
A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has

1941-12-09
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.

1957-08-07
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans a

1965-04-24
Ex-convict Eddie and his wife, Kristine, attempt to build a new life for themselves and their daught

1948-10-20
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends

1958-07-15
A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, u

1943-04-29
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role bu

1954-10-28
When a young stage hopeful is found dead, suspicion falls on her mentor, a successful Broadway produ

1939-04-19
The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".

1949-08-25
A frivolous country girl married to a naïve small-town doctor goes down the path of destruction when

1951-02-05
In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and

1966-04-21
A group of unlikely travelling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They i

1942-05-01
Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Ce

1942-04-17
Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by

1959-06-01
An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommended soldiers for the Congressional M

1946-12-05
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs fro

1968-09-12
The protégé of a powerful congressman discovers his boss's corruption.

1942-12-01
The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story b

1955-10-01
A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War.

1955-02-02
The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story

1952-04-08
In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.

1954-08-04
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the smal

1948-03-24
Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired we

1965-11-15
Mayhem on a Sunday Afternoon was the last of three documentaries William Friedkin made for producer

1968-02-09
After years of hard work, old Sam Cooper has finally found a gold mine. Since he cannot take everyth

1956-03-27
To eliminate internal opposition, a cruel CEO sabotages and humiliates a good-natured executive in a

1941-12-04
A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of

1941-10-01
A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Do

1942-11-13
Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival.

1949-12-22
A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing him

1947-01-15
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years l

1953-03-17
Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancien

1969-03-05
A Vietnam veteran and ex-con is persuaded by a shady woman to rob a $50,000 payroll account on a Cal

1960-03-15
Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by

1948-10-22
This documentary, filmed entirely by military photographers, recounts the U.S. Navy's 1946-47 expedi

1954-09-30
Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wi

1960-09-15
"Under Ten Flags" is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce raide

1963-10-09
During World War II, the spoiled son of a wealthy businessman finds himself involved in the guerrill

1937-08-20
Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air serv

1937-04-16
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.

1951-12-01
Two single parents shock their children by falling in love.

1937-09-10
The adventures of three disparate cadets at the US Naval Academy--one the son of a Navy enlisted man

1937-10-08
College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his sc

1958-12-01
A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at

1971-10-05
In a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 6

1954-07-03
A landowner in colonial Africa leads a safari through Nukumbi territory in order to capture an escap

1967-08-24
Bill MacLean is a former CIA agent living in London. He had been fired when he stuck up for one of t

1961-02-24
A wealthy and self-serving man, sets out on a perilous ocean voyage with his son. An unexpected inci

1936-11-06
A defiant young woman struggles against the norms and morals established by Victorian society and en

1973-01-01

1961-10-03
An army sergeant blames himself for causing a rookie's death during training.

1974-06-21
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year hi

1953-08-26
Gringo miner Gallager is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11 when corrupt administrator R

1997-05-12
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17
1965-10-19
Documentary about teenage life in the mid-60s.

1965-03-02
A documentary about men who are courageous enough to risk their lives undertaking challenges, sports
1950-01-01
Black and white UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A student film

1957-09-19
A drama set in 1956, during the unsuccessful Hungarian uprising against the Russians.

1991-07-15
Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara S

1954-09-28
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest wo

1966-03-09
The work of the US police force and the problem of fighting rising crime across the country.

1944-03-14
In this World War II military training film, a B-25 crew bails out over the jungle, and the pilot is

2019-07-14
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have prog

1945-12-11
Documentary short film depicting the correct methods of surviving the crash landing of a military ai