Jan Arvan

Jan Arvan

Born: April 10, 1913
Died: May 24, 1979
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Jan Arvan was born on April 10, 1913 in Wisconsin, USA as Jan Arvanitas. He was an actor.

Movies for Jan Arvan...

Nick and Nora
Title: Nick and Nora
Released: March 4, 1975
Type: Movie
Retired detective Nick Charles and his wife set out to solve a murder mystery after a corpse wearing white gloves is found in a hotel pool.
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The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
Title: The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
Character: Uncle Charles
Released: March 6, 1974
Type: Movie
A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy keeping adoption records sealed.
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The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping
Title: The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping
Character: Doctor
Released: November 17, 1973
Type: Movie
A criminal organization known as OSO specializes in kidnapping high ranking U.S. representatives. Although Steve Austin has already thwarted one of their kidnappings, he is unable to stop them from grabbing William Henry Cameron right from under OSI's nose. OSO demands one million dollars in gold and Oscar Goldman takes the opportunity to try and lure them out into the open. Meanwhile, Steve accompanies Dr. Erica Bergner, who is testing a new method of brain transferal in order to find out where Cameron is being kept.
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The Stone Killer
Title: The Stone Killer
Character: Bartolomeo Vechetti
Released: August 8, 1973
Type: Movie
A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.
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The Poseidon Adventure
Title: The Poseidon Adventure
Character: Doctor
Released: December 13, 1972
Type: Movie
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
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The Screaming Woman
Title: The Screaming Woman
Character: Martin
Released: January 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground. Her family, however, refuses to believe her story, and sees the incident as an opportunity to prove the woman's mind has snapped so they can take control of her money.
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Winchester '73
Title: Winchester '73
Character: Santiago Ortega
Released: March 14, 1967
Type: Movie
TV Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an ex-con the other a law officer, competing for possession of the famed repeating rifle.
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Gambit
Title: Gambit
Character: Airport Official (uncredited)
Released: December 21, 1966
Type: Movie
Harry Dean is a career burglar set on stealing a piece of priceless art from the world's wealthiest man, Mr. Shahbandar. With the help of exotic showgirl Nicole Chang, he concocts the perfect scheme for how the robbery should go and lays it out point by point. However, when the team tries to execute the plan, perfection and reality don't quite match up, and Harry's vision begins to unravel in this twisty tale of a heist gone wrong.
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The Magnificent Stranger
Title: The Magnificent Stranger
Character: Telegraph Operator
Released: August 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Rowdy Yates is accused of murder, and has to alert the Army to a bandit assault.
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Title: Batman
Character: Judge
Released: January 12, 1966
Type: TV
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.
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Title: I Dream of Jeannie
Character: Auctioneer
Released: September 18, 1965
Type: TV
While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency landing that will forever change his life. On a deserted South Pacific island, Captain Nelson happens upon a bottle containing a beautiful two-thousand-year-old female genie named Jeannie. Rescuing her from the bottle nets Tony the requisite three wishes, and then some, when Jeannie pledges total devotion to her new "master".
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Title: Get Smart
Character: Sehokian
Released: September 18, 1965
Type: TV
Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show stars Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, and Edward Platt. Henry said they created the show by request of Daniel Melnick, who was a partner, along with Leonard Stern and David Susskind, of the show's production company, Talent Associates, to capitalize on "the two biggest things in the entertainment world today"—James Bond and Inspector Clouseau. Brooks said: "It's an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy." This is the only Mel Brooks production to feature a laugh track. The success of the show eventually spawned the follow-up films The Nude Bomb and Get Smart, Again!, as well as a 1995 revival series and a 2008 film remake. In 2010, TV Guide ranked Get Smart's opening title sequence at No. 2 on its list of TV's Top 10 Credits Sequences, as selected by readers.
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Title: Honey West
Character: Mr. Rush
Released: September 17, 1965
Type: TV
After her father's death, Honey West takes over his high-tech private-detective firm, assisted by rugged Sam Bolt--and her pet ocelot Bruce.
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Title: The Addams Family
Character: Drashi Dumo
Released: September 18, 1964
Type: TV
A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.
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The Brass Bottle
Title: The Brass Bottle
Character: Seneschal
Released: May 20, 1964
Type: Movie
A genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of.
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Title: Petticoat Junction
Character: Waiter
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: TV
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
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Title: Petticoat Junction
Character: Maitre D'
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: TV
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
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Title: The Lucy Show
Character: Head
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.
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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: Al
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: TV
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
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Frontier Uprising
Title: Frontier Uprising
Character: Toyon
Released: February 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Not having heard that war has erupted between the U.S. and Mexico, a wagon train heads west, only to find itself threatened by the Mexicans who have teamed up with hostile Indians.
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Title: The Case of the Dangerous Robin
Character: Carlos Andrade
Released: October 18, 1960
Type: TV
The Case of the Dangerous Robin is an American crime drama series which aired in syndication from October 1960, to July 1961. The series stars Rick Jason. It was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.
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Noose for a Gunman
Title: Noose for a Gunman
Character: Ben Hallop - Town Council Member
Released: May 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his brother.
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Three Came to Kill
Title: Three Came to Kill
Character: Ipara
Released: March 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Assassins take a flight controller's family hostage to force him into revealing the aircraft carrying their quarry.
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Gunfighters of Abilene
Title: Gunfighters of Abilene
Character: Miguel
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A gunman receives a request for help from his brother, but arrives too late to save him from the lawless rancher who wanted him dead.
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Holiday for Lovers
Title: Holiday for Lovers
Character: Receptionist
Released: July 21, 1959
Type: Movie
Clifton Webb as a strict, conservative father heads the cast of this 1959 comedy, about an American family vacationing in South America. Directed by Henry Levin, the film also features Jane Wyman, Jill St. John, Carol Lynley, Paul Henreid, Gary Crosby, Henny Backus, Wally Brown, Gardner McKay and Jose Greco.
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Some Came Running
Title: Some Came Running
Character: Nightclub Manager (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1958
Type: Movie
A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.
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The Sign of Zorro
Title: The Sign of Zorro
Character: Don Nacho Torres
Released: November 18, 1958
Type: Movie
In this film, edited from eight episodes of Disney's hit TV series, Don Diego returns home to find his town under the heel of a cruel dictator, Capitan Monastario. Diego dons the mask of Zorro to fight the evil commandant's tyranny, and, with the help of his mute servant Bernardo, free the pueblo from his oppression.
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Curse of the Faceless Man
Title: Curse of the Faceless Man
Character: Police Insp. Renaldi
Released: August 14, 1958
Type: Movie
A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...
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The Power of the Resurrection
Title: The Power of the Resurrection
Character: Judas
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A young man, Facing torture and possibly death for his Christian beliefs, confesses his fears to Peter, who awaits a similar fate. Peter tells him of fear he felt in following Jesus' arrest in the Garden of Gethesamene, when he denied knowing him three times - and yet Jesus told him that he would be the rock upon which the Church was built. Peter goes on to relate the events of the passion week, including the Christ's crucifixion, resurrection and ascension.
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Title: Zorro
Character: Nacho Torres
Released: October 10, 1957
Type: TV
Diego de la Vega, the son of a wealthy landowner, returns from his studies in Spain and discovers that Los Angeles is under the command of Capitan Monastario, a cruel man who relishes in the misuse of his power for personal gain. Knowing that he cannot hope to single-handedly defeat Monastario and his troops, Diego resorts to subterfuge. He adopts the secret identity of Zorro, a sinister figure dressed in black, and rides to fight Monastario's injustice.
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Title: Zorro
Character: Ignacio Torres
Released: October 10, 1957
Type: TV
Diego de la Vega, the son of a wealthy landowner, returns from his studies in Spain and discovers that Los Angeles is under the command of Capitan Monastario, a cruel man who relishes in the misuse of his power for personal gain. Knowing that he cannot hope to single-handedly defeat Monastario and his troops, Diego resorts to subterfuge. He adopts the secret identity of Zorro, a sinister figure dressed in black, and rides to fight Monastario's injustice.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Swiss Bank Clerk
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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20 Million Miles to Earth
Title: 20 Million Miles to Earth
Character: Signore Contino - Government Official
Released: February 8, 1957
Type: Movie
When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save one of the astronauts Colonel Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a specimen of an alien creature. Growing at a fantastic rate, it manages to escape and eventually threatens the city of Rome.
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Istanbul
Title: Istanbul
Character: Kazim
Released: January 23, 1957
Type: Movie
A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he?
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The Opposite Sex
Title: The Opposite Sex
Character: Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1956
Type: Movie
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back. The Opposite Sex is a remake of the 1939 comedy The Women.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Harry
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Title: Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.
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The Cobweb
Title: The Cobweb
Character: Mr. Appleton
Released: June 7, 1955
Type: Movie
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes - but drapes are the least of their problems.
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The Other Woman
Title: The Other Woman
Character: Police Inspector Collins
Released: December 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Bit player Sherry Stewart gets miffed when director Walter Darman turns her down after she reads for a small part in his picture. She and her boy friend, Ronnie, devise a plan to lure Darman to her apartment, where she gives him a drugged drink. She tells Darman they had been intimate and blackmails him for $50,000. More than a little distracted by his situation, his wife senses something is wrong and he gets into a violent argument with his father-in-law who owns the producing company Darman works for, and discontinues the picture. Sherry informs Darman she is going to tell his wife all about them. Darman tells his secretary that he is going to work late and is not to be disturbed, sets the moviola runnings, and exits by the back door and hot-foots it to Sherry's apartment.
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Trader Tom of the China Seas
Title: Trader Tom of the China Seas
Character: Khan
Released: January 6, 1954
Type: Movie
In this 12 Chapter serial the UN enlists trader Tom Rogers and Vivian Wells, to lead the effort to prevent the natives from starting a revolution in Burmatra and its neighbors.
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How to Marry a Millionaire
Title: How to Marry a Millionaire
Character: Tony (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1953
Type: Movie
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Dr. Karpoldi
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Luis
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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The Living Bible
Title: The Living Bible
Character: Judas Iscariot
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Witness the story of Jesus, beginning with his birth in Bethlehem, to his crucifixion, death, and triumphant resurrection.
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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
Title: Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
Released: May 18, 1951
Type: Movie
A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.
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The Desert Hawk
Title: The Desert Hawk
Character: Merchant
Released: August 5, 1950
Type: Movie
A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.