# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/van-heflin
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:37:50.751Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/van-heflin"
name: "Van Heflin"
slug: "van-heflin"
description: "Emmett Evan \"Van\" Heflin Jr. was an American theatre, radio, and film 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. Heflin won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Johnny Eager (1942). He also had starring roles in the westerns Shane (1953), 3:10 to Yuma (1957), and Gunman's Walk (1958). He portrayed a mentally disturbed airline passenger in the classic disaster film Airport (1970)."
tagline: "American actor (1908–1971)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Van_Heflin_-_1941.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1908-12-13"
deathDate: "1971-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.623404495651192
  historical:           23.07130266666667
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001336/"
    handle:    "nm0001336"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump