Jan Arvan

Acting

Jan Arvan

Born 1913-04-10 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Jan Arvan was born on April 10, 1913 in Wisconsin, USA as Jan Arvanitas. He was an actor.

Acting credits

The Poseidon Adventure poster
7.2

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

The Poseidon Adventure

1972

How to Marry a Millionaire poster
6.8

Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

How to Marry a Millionaire

1953

Gambit poster
7.0

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.

Gambit

1966

20 Million Miles to Earth poster
6.3

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.

20 Million Miles to Earth

1957

The Cobweb poster
5.7

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.

The Cobweb

1955

Some Came Running poster
7.0

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.

Some Came Running

1958

The Sandpiper poster
6.4

A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.

The Sandpiper

1965

The Stone Killer poster
6.3

A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.

The Stone Killer

1973

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NR

Presented by the “This is the Answer!” series and produced by A Family Films in conjunction with the Radio and Television Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention in Ft. Worth Texas, this 1950s-era film titled “Pay the Piper” seeks to teach the viewer biblical lessons through everyday scenarios. Directed by William F. Claxton, this teleplay by Lowell S. Hawley is an adaptation of a story by Dr. Paul M. Stevens and chronicles the unfortunate premature death of family man Charles Thompson’s daughter due to underage drinking. As a result, Charles Thompson goes on a crusade throughout his local community to put an end to the sale of alcohol despite later discovering that it was his own personal stash of liquor that had been the cause of the accident. This scenario is used to convey a biblical lesson from Galatians 6:7.

Pay the Piper

1959

The Desert Hawk poster
5.4

A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.

The Desert Hawk

1950

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy poster
6.0

Bud and Lou, two stranded American archaeologists, run afoul of an Egyptian cult with big plans to resurrect the mummified corpse of Klaris, guardian of his Princess Ara's treasure-filled tomb. When Lou accidentally eats the cursed medallion needed to find the ancient treasure, the two become targets of the cult's leader, his goons, a mysterious femme fatale, and the mummy of Klaris himself!

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

1955

Istanbul poster
6.0

A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he?

Istanbul

1957

It Started with a Kiss poster
5.5

While on leave in New York, a serviceman both weds a chorus girl and wins a red convertible in a charity raffle. Both his wife and the car turn out to be problematic.

It Started with a Kiss

1959

The Opposite Sex poster
5.4

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.

The Opposite Sex

1956

The Brass Bottle poster
6.3

A genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of.

The Brass Bottle

1964

Curse of the Faceless Man poster
5.7

A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...

Curse of the Faceless Man

1958

Kismet poster
5.6

A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bachelor to marry his dreamy daughter, Marsinah. Along the way, he poses as the renowned sorcerer Hajj and gets in and out of scrapes with an elderly thief, a dim-witted wazir, and his wife. Meanwhile, his daughter develops feelings for a handsome caliph.

Kismet

1955

Winchester '73 poster
6.7

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.

Winchester '73

1967

The Sign of Zorro poster
7.4

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.

The Sign of Zorro

1958

The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping poster
6.8

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.

The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping

1973

The Spy with My Face poster
5.6

Napoleon Solo is captured by Thrush and replaced with a double.

The Spy with My Face

1965

Three Came to Kill poster
6.0

Assassins take a flight controller's family hostage to force him into revealing the aircraft carrying their quarry.

Three Came to Kill

1960

Because of You poster
6.6

A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.

Because of You

1952

The Magnificent Stranger poster
7.0

Rowdy Yates is accused of murder, and has to alert the Army to a bandit assault.

The Magnificent Stranger

1966