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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 3, 1925
Died
September 20, 2019
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Jan Merlin
0.4 Popularity
Biography
Character actor, screenwriter, and author. He had recurring roles on Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (1951-54) and The Rough Riders (1958-59). Merlin won a Daytime Emmy for writing Another World.
Known For
6.9
Jury Foreman
A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story
1992
4.0
Hancock Gish
Silk 2
1990
5.0
Potter - Pete
False Identity
1990
6.7
Attorney
Buried Alive
1990
3.3
Max Barker
Time Trackers
1989
3.5
Mr. Groker
Nowhere to Run
1989
6.3
Permanent Record
1988
3.0
Karl
Covenant
1985
7.5
Colonel Donald Davis
The A-Team
1983
5.0
Centauri
Aliens From Another Planet
1982
Credits
A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story
as Jury Foreman
1992
6.9
Silk 2
as Hancock Gish
1990
4.0
False Identity
as Potter - Pete
1990
5.0
Buried Alive
as Attorney
1990
6.7
Time Trackers
as Max Barker
1989
3.3
Nowhere to Run
as Mr. Groker
1989
3.5
Permanent Record
1988
6.3
Covenant
as Karl
1985
3.0
The A-Team
as Colonel Donald Davis
1983
7.5
Aliens From Another Planet
as Centauri
1982
5.0
The Hindenburg
as Speck
1975
6.3
Switch
as Bradner
1975
6.7
The Slams
as Saddler
1973
6.2
I Escaped from Devil's Island
as Rosenquist
1973
4.7
The Twilight People
as Steinman
1972
4.5
Take the Money and Run
as Al - Bank Robber
1969
7.1
Strategy of Terror
as Jon
1969
0.0
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
as Willie Marks
1967
6.3
The Invaders
as Post
1967
6.8
Mission: Impossible
as Captain Danko
1966
7.6
Mission: Impossible
as Leon
1966
7.6
The Time Tunnel
as Centauri
1966
7.6
Guns of Diablo
as Rance Macklin
1964
5.3
Gunfight at Comanche Creek
as Nielson
1963
5.8
The Fugitive
as Jan Karac
1963
7.2
Hell Bent for Leather
as Travers
1960
6.2
The Rough Riders
1958
6.3
Cole Younger, Gunfighter
as Frank Wittrock
1958
6.2
Woman and the Hunter
as Robert Gifford
1957
0.0
The Peacemaker
as Viggo Tomlin
1956
3.7
A Strange Adventure
as Al Kutner
1956
5.3
Screaming Eagles
as Lt. Pauling
1956
5.6
A Day of Fury
as Billy Brand
1956
5.5
Running Wild
as Scotty Cluett
1955
0.0
Illegal
as Andy Garth
1955
6.4
Frontier
as Clay Chandler
1955
5.0
Big House, U.S.A
as Tommy (uncredited)
1955
6.5
Six Bridges to Cross
as Andy Norris
1955
6.2
Flight to Nowhere
as (Unconfirmed) Hotel Bellboy
1946
4.7