Van Heflin
Gender: Male
Born: 13th December 1910
Died: 23rd July 1971
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Great Adventure
Movies: 3:10 to Yuma, Act of Violence, Airport, Battle Cry, Possessed, Shane, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Count Three and Pray, H.M. Pulham, Esq., Tap Roots, Madame Bovary, The Three Musketeers, Presenting Lily Mars, The Prowler, The Greatest Story Ever Told, A Woman Rebels, Johnny Eager, Till the Clouds Roll By, Stagecoach, Santa Fe Trail, Tennessee Johnson, Flight From Glory, Patterns, Green Dolphin Street, Grand Central Murder, Woman's World, Kid Glove Killer, Stagecoach, The Ruthless Four, They Came To Cordura, Tomahawk, Black Widow, B.F.'s Daughter, Tanganyika, East Side, West Side, The Raid, Under Ten Flags, Once a Thief, The Man Outside, The Big Bounce, My Son John, Tempest, South of Algiers, Cry of Battle, Gunman's Walk, 5 Branded Women, The Feminine Touch, Seven Sweethearts, Annapolis Salute, Saturday's Heroes, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, The Bold Men
Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin, Jr. (December 13, 1910 – July 23, 1971) was an American film and theater 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).
Heflin was born in Walters, Oklahoma, the son of Fanny Bleecker (née Shippey) and Dr. Emmett Evan Heflin, a dentist. He was of Irish and French ancestry. Heflin's sister was Daytime Emmy-nominated actress Frances Heflin. Heflin attended Classen High School in Oklahoma City and the University of Oklahoma, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
Heflin began his acting career on Broadway in the early 1930s before being signed to a contract by RKO Radio Pictures. He made his film debut in A Woman Rebels (1936), opposite Katharine Hepburn. He was signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and was initially cast in supporting roles in films such as Santa Fe Trail (1940), and Johnny Eager (1942), winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the latter performance.
MGM began to groom him as a leading man in B movies, and provided him with supporting
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