Jan Merlin Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Jan Merlin (born April 3, 1925) is an American character actor, screen writer, and author. Born and raised in New York USA, during the Second World War he enlisted in the US Navy to serve on three successive ships in the North Atlantic and Pacific Fleets, accumulating ten battle stars before entering Japan's Inland Sea with the first group of Occupation Forces. Upon returning to civilian life, the former torpedoman worked in summer stock beginning in 1946, and enrolled in the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater, making his Broadway debut in Mister Roberts starring Henry Fonda, in... MORE

Jan Merlin (born April 3, 1925) is an American character actor, screen writer, and author. Born and raised in New York USA, during the Second World War he enlisted in the US Navy to serve on three successive ships in the North Atlantic and Pacific Fleets, accumulating ten battle stars before entering Japan's Inland Sea with the first group of Occupation Forces. Upon returning to civilian life, the former torpedoman worked in summer stock beginning in 1946, and enrolled in the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater, making his Broadway debut in Mister Roberts starring Henry Fonda, in 1949. His professional career as an actor spans more than five decades, and has included performances in stage plays on and off Broadway, radio dramas, several hundreds of live and filmed episodes of TV series, and more than thirty feature motion pictures made in the US and abroad. His most recent performances were in live radio dramas broadcast in June, 2010. In his film and TV work, Merlin was frequently cast as the heavy, and consequently his character very often died onscreen. His best-known TV work was as co-star on Tom Corbett, Space Cadet in the part of Cadet Roger Manning (1950–1953), and LESS