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Primetime Emmy Awards. 1968 Nominee Primetime Emmy. Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama. A Case of Libel. For playing: "Robert Sloane".
- December 13, 1908
- July 23, 1971
For his role as the heavy-drinking, Shakespeare-quoting mobster with a conscience, Van got the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor in 1942. He was immediately cast in the leading role as a forensically-minded detective in Kid Glove Killer (1942), a film which marked the debut of Fred Zinnemann as a feature director.
- January 1, 1
- Walters, Oklahoma, USA
- January 1, 1
- Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Check all the awards won and nominated for by Van Heflin - Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (1942) and more awards. Van Heflin was an American film and theater actor. He played mostly character parts over the...
- Johnny Eager (1942), Directed by Mervyn Leroy
- Shane (1953), Directed by George Stevens
- Black Widow (1954), Directed by Nunnally Johnson
- 3:10 to Yuma (1957), Directed by Delmer Daves
- Airport (1970), Directed by George Seaton
Robert Taylor in arguably his best role ever and Lana Turner in her biggest role to date were the stars promoted as TNT in this classic gangster film directed by LeRoy who had directed Taylor in Waterloo Bridge and Escape before concentrating on the Greer Garson classics, Blossoms in the Dust, Random Harvest and Madame Curie. Taylor in a rare bad g...
After a dry spell that lasted four years or so, Heflin had what many consider the best role of his career as the hardworking head of a family of homesteading farmers that is helped by a weary gunfighter in this beautifully filmed western with Alan Ladd at the top of his game as the gunfighter, Jean Arthur in her last film role as Heflin’s wife and ...
One of a handful of films directed by prolific writer Johnson (The Dark Mirror, Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation), this one finds Heflin in one of his more sophisticated roles as a famed Broadway producer stalked by an ambitious young writer (Peggy Ann Garner) who is murdered in his apartment. Is the murderer Heflin, his wife (Gene Tierney), the famous s...
An early film from the work of prolific writer Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty, Out of Sight), this intense western in a which a small-time rancher (Heflin) is tasked with the job of ensuring that a notorious outlaw (Glenn Ford) is put on a train that will take him to his long-awaited trial in another town. Richard Jaeckel is Ford’s second in command wh...
The big box-office hit of 1970 from Arthur Hailey’s best-seller received an incredible ten Oscar nominations including Best Picture, most of which it didn’t deserve. It had a high-powered cast led by Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg and Jacqueline Bisset, but it was the supporting cast that made it interesting, particularly George Kennedy, ...
A biography and filmography of Van Heflin, highly skilled character actor who appeared in many successful movies during the 1940s and 1950s and who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in 'Johnny Eager' in 1942.
Jul 24, 1971 · Mr. Heflin won an Academy Award as best supporting actor in 1943 for his role as the hard-drinking stooge for a big-city gangster in “Johnny Eager.”
Van Heflin, born Emmett Evan Heflin Jr., was an American theater, screen, and radio actor. He won the ‘Academy Award’ for the ‘Best Supporting Actor’ for his remarkable performance as ‘Jeff Hartnett’ in the film noir ‘Johnny Eager.’. He made his acting debut on ‘Broadway’ during the late 1920s.
