Jan Merlin Overview:

Character actor, Jan Merlin, was born on Apr 3, 1925 in New York City, NY. As of December 2023, Jan Merlin was 98 years old.

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Good-looking American actor in a threatening sort of way, the New Yorker enrolled in theatrical school as a teenager, but struggled along in stock before TV success in Tom Corbett, Space Cadet; he was the wisecracking cadet whose catchphrase "Go blow your jets" became a watchword for American children while the series ran from 1950 to 1955. When he won praise for a Broadway performance of Rope, a film contract with Universal-International followed. Despite effective appearances as blond menaces, Merlin didn't quite make the front rank there, and his best work continued to be for the theatre; film appearances have become more sporadic with the passing years.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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Interviewed in Tom Weaver's books "Earth vs. the Sci-Fi Filmmakers" (McFarland & Co., 2005), "I Talked with a Zombie" (McFarland & Co., 2008) and "A Sci-Fi Swarm and Horror Horde" (McFarland & Co., 2010).

First stage role in Hollywood was with Barbara Britton and Carleton Young in the three-character mystery play "The Woman with Red Hair." His second was in the premiere of "Kataki" in 1960.

He won an Emmy as a writer for "Another World" (1964) (TV daytime series) in 1975, and was nominated again in 1979.

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