Van Heflin

Van Heflin

December 13, 1910 · 115 years old

Emmett Evan “Van” Heflin Jr. (December 13, 1908 – July 23, 1971) was an American stage, radio, film, and television actor whose steady craftsmanship and versatility made him a respected character player and occasional leading man across four decades. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Acto…

Known For

22 titles
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Shane

Shane

1953 · 1h 58m · Movie

An ex-gunfighter defends homesteaders in 1889 Wyoming.

7.6
2
3:10 to Yuma

3:10 to Yuma

1957 · 1h 32m · Movie

Broke small-time rancher Dan Evans is hired by the stagecoach line to put big-time captured outlaw leader Ben Wade on the 3:10 train to Yuma but Wade's gang tries to free him.

7.6
3
Airport

Airport

1970 · 2h 17m · Movie

A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.

6.6
4
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

1946 · 1h 56m · Movie

A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband who believes he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier. Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.

7.4
5
The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965 · 4h 20m · Movie

An all-star, large scale epic movie that chronicles the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.

6.5
6
Possessed

Possessed

1947 · 1h 48m · Movie

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.

7.1
7
Act of Violence

Act of Violence

1949 · 1h 22m · Movie

An embittered, vengeful POW stalks his former commanding officer who betrayed his men's planned escape attempt from a Nazi prison camp.

7.4
8
Santa Fe Trail

Santa Fe Trail

1940 · 1h 50m · Movie

In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.

6.2
9
Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

1949 · 1h 54m · Movie

A provincial doctor's wife's romantic illusions about life and social status lead her to betray her naive husband, take on lovers, and run up ruinous debts.

7.0
10
Till the Clouds Roll By

Till the Clouds Roll By

1946 · 2h 12m · Movie

Songwriter and Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern is unable to find immediate success in the U.S. He sought recognition abroad. He journeyed to England where his dreams of success became real and where he met his future wife Eva Leale.

6.3
11
Battle Cry

Battle Cry

1955 · 2h 29m · Movie

Young Marines have adventures in love and war.

6.4
12
Stagecoach

Stagecoach

1966 · 1h 55m · Movie

On the stagecoach to Cheyenne, a mixed group of passengers must work together to survive the arduous journey and the Indian attacks.

6.1
13
Once a Thief

Once a Thief

1965 · 1h 47m · Movie

San Francisco ex-con Eddie Pedak wants to go straight, but local cop Mike Vido, motivated by a personal vendetta, keeps harassing him while Eddie's brother Walter wants Eddie for one last major heist.

6.5
14
Gunman's Walk

Gunman's Walk

1958 · 1h 37m · Movie

A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.

7.0
15
Green Dolphin Street

Green Dolphin Street

1947 · 2h 21m · Movie

A young man loved by two sisters becomes a naval officer and sails to New Zealand, where he drunkenly writes a marriage proposal to the wrong sister, profoundly affecting the life of the other.

6.8
16
Woman's World

Woman's World

1954 · 1h 34m · Movie

An executive plans to fill a high-ranking position by interviewing the candidates' wives.

6.9
17
Presenting Lily Mars

Presenting Lily Mars

1943 · 1h 44m · Movie

Small-town Indiana girl Lily Mars dreams to be a stage actress. She begs visiting Broadway producer John Thornway for a role but he dismisses her as an amateur. She follows him to New York and worms her way into his show, and his ...

6.8
18
Tomahawk

Tomahawk

1951 · 1h 22m · Movie

In 1866 Wyoming, a frontier scout tries to prevent a war between the Sioux and the U.S. after the Army builds a road and a fort on territory previously ceded to the Sioux by treaty.

6.4
19
Count Three and Pray

Count Three and Pray

1955 · 1h 42m · Movie

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

6.3
20
Tap Roots

Tap Roots

1948 · 1h 49m · Movie

In 1860s Mississippi, the Dabneys, founders of the Dabney plantation in Levington, experience tragedy and turmoil when they refuse to join either side of the American Civil War.

6.5
21
Wings of the Hawk

Wings of the Hawk

1953 · 1h 21m · Movie

During the Mexican revolution of 1910, an American prospector gets involved with the revolutionaries after a corrupt Mexican official confiscates his mine.

6.2
22
Flight from Glory

Flight from Glory

1937 · 1h 7m · Movie

This laudable RKO programmer casts Chester Morris as a fearless pilot whose misdeeds have exiled him to a remote flying field in the Andes mountains.

6.1