Jan Merlin

Jan Merlin

Born: April 3, 1925
Died: September 20, 2019
in New York City, New York, USA
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

Movies for Jan Merlin...

A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story
Title: A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story
Character: Jury Foreman
Released: November 16, 1992
Type: Movie
A teenage mother is forced to give up her baby for adoption and, 19 years later, when she tries to contact her son, she learns that he died, under questionable circumstances when he was three years old.
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Silk 2
Title: Silk 2
Character: Hancock Gish
Released: August 22, 1990
Type: Movie
Silk, the smoothest, toughest, and sexiest cop in Honolulu is hot on the trail of ruthless art smugglers who are after a priceless Asian Scroll. Silk will stop at nothing to get her man, even if it means blowing up an entire building.
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False Identity
Title: False Identity
Character: Potter - Pete
Released: June 8, 1990
Type: Movie
When Rachel, a radio personality, discovers a Purple Heart at a garage sale she decides to find out its history. She finds that the medal belonged to a man named Harlan Erickson, a long-lost brother of the town's leading citizen.
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Buried Alive
Title: Buried Alive
Character: Attorney
Released: May 9, 1990
Type: Movie
A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish toxins backfires in surprising ways.
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Time Trackers
Title: Time Trackers
Character: Max Barker
Released: May 1, 1989
Type: Movie
When an evil scientist steals his colleague's time machine his colleague's beautiful, brilliant daughter, aided by an L.A. cop and a hapless admirer, pursues him back to twelfth century England where - disguised as a damsel in distress - she enlists the help of a knight errant whose secret past holds the key to her future.
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Nowhere to Run
Title: Nowhere to Run
Character: Mr. Groker
Released: March 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Rural Texas, 1960 -- An age of good times and innocence, when growing up was supposed to be easy. Six high school seniors know the terrible secret that will make the difference in the biggest election in the county's history. Now they must make the most difficult decision of their lives. They must become adults. Written by Concorde - New Horizons
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Permanent Record
Title: Permanent Record
Released: April 22, 1988
Type: Movie
David Sinclair seems to have everything going for him: he's smart, musically talented, and very successful. To top off his senior year in high school, his band is trying to get a recording session. Therefore, David's suicide leaves everyone, especially his best friend and bandmate, Chris, with a lot of questions.
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Covenant
Title: Covenant
Character: Karl
Released: August 5, 1985
Type: Movie
A powerful family that controls the world's banks has made a deal with Satan to help the forces of evil take over the world. An underground group named The Judges bands together to try to stop them.
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Title: The A-Team
Character: Colonel Donald Davis
Released: January 23, 1983
Type: TV
A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."
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Aliens From Another Planet
Title: Aliens From Another Planet
Character: Centauri
Released: March 10, 1982
Type: Movie
A senator is sent to inspect a project that can send people into the future or past & decide if it is feasible to continue. One of the scientists working on it, decides to go through it anyway... This is a compilation of three episodes of the 1960's TV series, "The Time Tunnel".
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The Hindenburg
Title: The Hindenburg
Character: Speck
Released: December 25, 1975
Type: Movie
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.
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The Slams
Title: The Slams
Character: Saddler
Released: September 26, 1973
Type: Movie
Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.
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I Escaped from Devil's Island
Title: I Escaped from Devil's Island
Character: Rosenquist
Released: September 1, 1973
Type: Movie
In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.
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Twilight People
Title: Twilight People
Character: Steinman
Released: June 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.
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Take the Money and Run
Title: Take the Money and Run
Character: Al - Bank Robber
Released: August 18, 1969
Type: Movie
Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.
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Strategy of Terror
Title: Strategy of Terror
Character: Jon
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
A reporter and a New York City cop team up to find out who is trying to assassinate a UN leader. Film was a re-edit of two Kraft Suspense Theatre episodes.
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Title: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Character: Willie Marks
Released: June 30, 1967
Type: Movie
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
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Title: The Invaders
Character: Post
Released: January 10, 1967
Type: TV
The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for him it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now, David Vincent knows that the Invaders are here, that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.
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Title: The Time Tunnel
Character: Centauri
Released: September 9, 1966
Type: TV
The Time Tunnel is a 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series, written around a theme of time travel adventure. The show was creator-producer Irwin Allen's third science fiction television series, released by 20th Century Fox and broadcast on ABC. The show ran for one season of 30 episodes. Reruns are viewable on cable and by internet streaming. A pilot for a new series was produced in 2002, although it was not picked up.
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Guns of Diablo
Title: Guns of Diablo
Character: Rance Macklin
Released: October 4, 1964
Type: Movie
14-year-old Kurt Russell plays Jamie, an orphaned boy heading westward with a wagon train. Charles Bronson is a wagon scout Linc Murdock, who runs into difficulties when he meets old flame Maria (Susan Oliver), who is now married to corrupt lawman Rance Macklin (Jan Merlin). The jealous Macklin has Murdock arrested, but Maria frees him, permitting Murdock and Jamie to embark on a new adventure involving a "lost" gold mine.
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Gunfight at Comanche Creek
Title: Gunfight at Comanche Creek
Character: Nielson
Released: November 6, 1963
Type: Movie
Comanche Creek, Colorado, 1875: Prisoner Jack Mason is broken out of jail by a gang of strangers. They use him in a robbery, then when the dead-or-alive reward is high enough, they shoot him and collect. The National Detective Agency, now knowing the gang's methods, arranges to have agent Bob Gifford jailed in Comanche Creek for train robbery. The gang takes the bait (not before Gifford catches the eye of lovely saloon-keeper Abbie). But how will the bait get off the hook?
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Title: The Fugitive
Character: Jan Karac
Released: September 17, 1963
Type: TV
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
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Hell Bent for Leather
Title: Hell Bent for Leather
Character: Travers
Released: February 1, 1960
Type: Movie
When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. The townspeople capture Santell, and turn him over to lawman Harry Deckett. Deckett, who is tired of chasing the real Travers, decides to kill Santell and pass him off as Travers. Santell escapes from Deckett, taking lovely Janet Gifford hostage in the process. Janet comes to believe Santell's story, and helps him in his struggle to prove his real identity.
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Title: The Rough Riders
Released: October 2, 1958
Type: TV
The Rough Riders is an American Western television series set in the West after the American Civil War. It aired on ABC for the 1958-1959 television season. It was produced by Ziv Television, the production company responsible for such hit shows as Bat Masterson, Tombstone Territory, Sea Hunt, and Highway Patrol.
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Cole Younger, Gunfighter
Title: Cole Younger, Gunfighter
Character: Frank Wittrock
Released: March 30, 1958
Type: Movie
An outlaw must decide whether to stick his neck out for an innocent man.
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Woman and the Hunter
Title: Woman and the Hunter
Character: Robert Gifford
Released: January 13, 1957
Type: Movie
When embittered safari guide David Kirby accepts a fateful commission to lead a hunting trip for wealthy and ruthless American Mitchell Gifford, tragedy soon intervenes and the big game hunt becomes a man hunt.
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The Peacemaker
Title: The Peacemaker
Character: Viggo Tomlin
Released: November 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A former gunfighter who went to prison but then took up religion arrives in a western town as the new preacher. There he finds a feud between the ranchers and the farmers. The Railroad Agent is after the ranchers land and has his men causing all the trouble. The new preacher sets out to bring the two sides together and he says he will not need a gun.
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A Strange Adventure
Title: A Strange Adventure
Character: Al Kutner
Released: August 24, 1956
Type: Movie
A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder, and take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering its occupants.
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Screaming Eagles
Title: Screaming Eagles
Character: Lt. Pauling
Released: May 27, 1956
Type: Movie
A group of young soldiers parachute into France in preparation for D-Day.
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A Day of Fury
Title: A Day of Fury
Character: Billy Brand
Released: May 2, 1956
Type: Movie
Town marshal Alan Burnett life is saved by a stranger he meets on the trail. His rescuer turns out to be Jagade, a gunslinger just returned after years away, who finds when he gets into town that he can't abide the peace that has been settled between "his" people (i.e. the saloon-keepers, gamblers, etc.) and the righteous, "respectable" folk.
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Running Wild
Title: Running Wild
Character: Scotty Cluett
Released: November 11, 1955
Type: Movie
To get evidence against a crooked garage owner, a rookie cop masquerades as a hard case who wants a job as a mechanic.
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Illegal
Title: Illegal
Character: Andy Garth
Released: October 9, 1955
Type: Movie
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
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Big House, U.S.A
Title: Big House, U.S.A
Released: March 3, 1955
Type: Movie
A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate lands Barker in Casabel Island Prison.
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Six Bridges to Cross
Title: Six Bridges to Cross
Character: Andy Norris
Released: January 21, 1955
Type: Movie
Follow the evolution of a small time juvenile delinquent hood to a big time racketeer. Based on the famous 1950 Brinks Robbery in Boston that netted the crooks $2.5 million. The story delves into the psychology of the perpetrators, as well as the intricate mechanics of the hold-up.
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Flight to Nowhere
Title: Flight to Nowhere
Character: (Unconfirmed) Hotel Bellboy
Released: September 30, 1946
Type: Movie
A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets.