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Acting

Van Heflin

Career: Active from 1937 to 1971, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 49
top three billing

Average score: 63/100

Highest rated: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 43 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Van Heflin Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.5, average 5.4
Pop Culture
0.7, average 2.2
Uncanny
1.3, average 2.5
Absurdist Humor
0.8, average 2.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Drama 8
Classic Western 5
Moral Ambiguity 5
Character Study 5
Political Intrigue 4
Psychological Drama 4
Social Commentary 3
Historical Setting 3
Suspenseful 3
Film Noir 3
Intrigue 3
Character-Driven 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

69

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1970s

3 titles · average score 71

That's Entertainment!

84

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Last Child

69

as Senator Quincy George

Airport

60

as D. O. Guerrero

1960s

15 titles · average score 53

The Big Bounce

45

as Sam Mirakian

The Ruthless Four

57

as Sam Cooper

A Case of Libel

as Robert Sloane

Certain Honorable Men

as Champ Donohue

The Man Outside

as Bill MacLean

Stagecoach

53

as Marshal Curly Wilcox

Once a Thief

59

as Inspector Mike Vido

The Bold Men

as Narrator

Cry of Battle

34

as Joe Trent

The Wastrel

as Duncan Bell

Under Ten Flags

61

as Captain Bernhard Rogge

Five Branded Women

63

as Velko

1950s

23 titles · average score 67

They Came to Cordura

69

as Sgt. John Chawk

Gunman's Walk

75

as Lee Hackett

3:10 to Yuma

81

as Dan Evans

Patterns

83

as Fred Staples

Battle Cry

58

as Major Sam Huxley

Count Three and Pray

55

as Luke Fargo

Black Widow

62

as Peter Denver

The Raid

66

as Maj. Neal Benton

Shane

83

as Joe Starrett

Wings of the Hawk

59

as Irish Gallager

The Prowler

69

as Webb Garwood

Tomahawk

50

as Bridger

1940s

22 titles · average score 66

Act of Violence

67

as Frank R. Enley

Madame Bovary

58

as Charles Bovary

East Side, West Side

57

as Mark Dwyer

Tap Roots

72

as Keith Alexander

B.F.'s Daughter

51

as Thomas W. 'Tom' Brett

The Secret Land

61

as Narrator

The Three Musketeers

72

as Athos

Possessed

77

as David Sutton

Green Dolphin Street

67

as Timothy Haslam

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

86

as Sam Masterson

Presenting Lily Mars

69

as John Thornway

Kid Glove Killer

58

as Gordon McKay

1930s

6 titles · average score 56

Back Door to Heaven

42

as John Shelley

Annapolis Salute

as Clay V. Parker

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

61

as Rev. Samuel Woods

Saturday's Heroes

as Val

Flight from Glory

62

as George Wilson

A Woman Rebels

61

as Lord Gerald Waring Gaythorne