56 Fims of Van Heflin ( 1908 - 1971)
God smiled and danced on this date in 1908 when Van was born in Watters, Oklahoma.
Heflin served in WW II in the Air Force as a combat cameraman.
Appeared in first play in 1928 at age of 20 at the Yale School of Drama. Started with RKO then onto MGM.
Won Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in 1943 for his performance in Johnny Eager.
His career spanned 34 years from 1936 to 1978. He appeared in 56 feature films. Most of his appearances came during the 40s and 50s (70%).
Film genres included: drama (40); romance (18); and westerns (18).
IMDb data is: mean - 6.6, median - 6.9 and mode - 6.5 (8).
Highest IMDb rated movie: 7.9 Patterns (1956)
Lowest rated movie: 5.1 The Golden Mask (1953)
Heflin passed away on July 23th, 1971 of a heart attack in Hollywood, CA.
Heflin served in WW II in the Air Force as a combat cameraman.
Appeared in first play in 1928 at age of 20 at the Yale School of Drama. Started with RKO then onto MGM.
Won Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in 1943 for his performance in Johnny Eager.
His career spanned 34 years from 1936 to 1978. He appeared in 56 feature films. Most of his appearances came during the 40s and 50s (70%).
Film genres included: drama (40); romance (18); and westerns (18).
IMDb data is: mean - 6.6, median - 6.9 and mode - 6.5 (8).
Highest IMDb rated movie: 7.9 Patterns (1956)
Lowest rated movie: 5.1 The Golden Mask (1953)
Heflin passed away on July 23th, 1971 of a heart attack in Hollywood, CA.
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- DirectorMark SandrichStarsKatharine HepburnHerbert MarshallElizabeth AllanPamela, a woman in late-1800s England, wishes to be her own person and has no intention to ever marry. After she has a great deal of difficulty finding a job, she finally lands a position at a "woman's" magazine that covers topics like sewing and cooking. When the editor takes sick, Pamela moves the magazine into discussing issues like gender equality, child labor, medical care, and job searches. She is then surprised to find herself the leader of a movement. After an unexpected event, she is also faced with raising a child without a father, something people of that time thought was scandalous.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsPreston FosterJean MuirVan HeflinA California mining camp is plagued by a series of murders. Four people come under suspicion for the killings and are swiftly run straight out of the camp. During a blizzard they take refuge in an isolated cabin, and conflicts break out among them.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsChester MorrisWhitney BourneOnslow StevensThis laudable RKO programmer casts Chester Morris as a fearless pilot whose misdeeds have exiled him to a remote flying field in the Andes mountains.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsJames EllisonMarsha HuntHarry CareyThe adventures of three disparate cadets at the US Naval Academy--one the son of a Navy enlisted man, the other the scion of a wealthy family, the third decent but somewhat slow-witted--and their struggles with the rigors of the academy, women, and each other.
- DirectorEdward KillyStarsVan HeflinMarian MarshRichard LaneA college football star struggles to return integrity to the game.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsJimmy LydonAnita MageeRaymond RoeLittle Frankie Rogers lives on the wrong side of the tracks; his father is a drunkard and his mother is unable to support the family. After stealing a harmonica to play in his grammar school graduation recital, Frankie is sent to reform school, even though his teacher, Miss Williams, and classmate Carol Evans are convinced that he is a good boy. Frankie goes to reform school with dreams of leading a decent life, but those dreams are shattered when he is sentenced to the state penitentiary for slugging a trusty who was cruel to a fellow prisoner. His term completed, Frankie decides to go home to St. Mary, Ohio, and is accompanied by Jud Mason and Bert "The Mouse" Gatto, two friends from prison. Frankie finds that St. Mary has changed, however, and decides to move to Cleveland, where Carol has a struggling career as a singer. Carol convinces Frankie to settle down in Cleveland and get a job, but his plans go awry when, returning home one evening after a date with Carol, he learns that Jud and The Mouse have gone to rob a restaurant. Frankie rushes to stop them, but is too late, and arrives just as a man is killed. Frankie refuses to let Carol testify in his behalf and is convicted and sentenced to death. Meanwhile, Charley Smith, the only classmate of Frankie's who has become financially successful, invites his old schoolmates to return to St. Mary for a reunion. Under a cloud of gloom, the class reassembles and Carol and former classmate John Shelley beg Charley to help Frankie, but he smugly refuses. Hearing of the reunion, Frankie escapes from his cell and speeds home, bursting into the schoolroom just as Carol denounces Charley for his lack of compassion. After urging Carol to forgive Charley, Frankie bids farewell to his old schoolmates and leaves the building. Moments later, the sound of gun shots signal Frankie's death.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsErrol FlynnOlivia de HavillandRaymond MasseyIn 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.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsRosalind RussellDon AmecheKay FrancisAn author writing a book on jealousy discovers his wife is an expert on the subject.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsHedy LamarrRobert YoungRuth HusseyA man who lived his life as he was advised to do, not how he would have chosen to, is brought out of his shell by a beautiful young woman.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsRobert TaylorLana TurnerEdward ArnoldThe step-daughter of a district attorney falls in love with a gangster on parole who her father originally imprisoned.won Oscar for Best Supporting Actor
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsVan HeflinMarsha HuntLee BowmanCrime lab expert Gordon McKay uses the latest forensic techniques to solve murders in a city plagued by political corruption and mob rackets.
- DirectorS. Sylvan SimonStarsVan HeflinPatricia DaneCecilia ParkerA New York private eye works the puzzle of an actress found slain in a Grand Central Station railway car.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsKathryn GraysonMarsha HuntCecilia ParkerHenry falls in love with Billie, one of seven daughters of an eccentric hotel owner. Billie loves him back but refuses marriage because family tradition demands that the eldest daughter must marry first.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsVan HeflinLionel BarrymoreRuth HusseyBiography of Andrew Johnson, who followed Abraham Lincoln into office and became the first President of the United States ever to be impeached.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJudy GarlandVan HeflinFay BainterSmall-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 heart.
- StarsMel FordVan HeflinPatrick McVeyIn this World War II military training film, a B-25 crew bails out over the jungle, and the pilot is separated from the rest of of his crew. The two groups of soldiers must survive until they can meet up and be rescued. The pilot does almost everything wrong, and the rest of his crew does almost everything right. We learn, by both bad and good example, how to survive in the jungle.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsBarbara StanwyckVan HeflinLizabeth ScottA 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.an excellent film noir, debut performance by Kirk Douglas
- DirectorsRichard WhorfVincente MinnelliGeorge SidneyStarsRobert WalkerVan HeflinLucille BremerSongwriter 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.
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsJoan CrawfordVan HeflinRaymond MasseyAfter being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsVan HeflinLana TurnerDonna ReedA 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.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsBarbara StanwyckVan HeflinCharles CoburnWealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.
- StarsRobert MontgomeryRobert TaylorVan HeflinThe 1946-1947 U.S. military expedition to explore and map Antarctica, led by Admiral Richard E. Byrd, is presented from its planning stages through its successful completion.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsVan HeflinSusan HaywardBoris KarloffIn 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.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsLana TurnerGene KellyJune AllysonD'Artagnan and his Musketeer comrades thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsVan HeflinRobert RyanJanet LeighAn embittered, vengeful POW stalks his former commanding officer who betrayed his men's planned escape attempt from a Nazi prison camp.an excellent film noir classic