Jan Merlin

Jan Merlin (1925 - 2019)
==Film Deaths:==
*Them! (1954) [Crewmate]: Mauled off-screen by a giant ant as he is sending S.O.S on the radio, we only see him firing his gun and a close up of the ant.
*Hell Bent For Leather (1960) [Travers]: Shot dead by Audie Murphy after Jan kills Stephen McNally. (Thanks to Brian)
*Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963) [Nielson]: Gunned down by Adam Williams as he is running from Audie Murphy. (Thanks to Brian)
*Guns of Diablo (1964) [Rance Macklin]: Shot to death by Charles Bronson in a shoot-out in the street.
*The Hindenburg (1975) [Speck]: Possibly Killed (off-camera) when the Hindenburg crushes on him or he falls to death after leaving Anne Bancroft for dead. He is last seen on the ground either dead or unconscious when Anne looks down and sees him. (If he is dead, this is fictional because the real life Speck was the wireless officer who was Mortally injured when he was knocked out and trapped in the control cart.) 
==Television Deaths: ==
*Tombstone Territory: Guilt of a Town (1958) [Billy Clyde]: Mortally wounded in a shootout with Pat Conway. He staggers back into the shack he was staying in and dies while talking to James Best.
*Rawhide: Incident at Crooked Hat (1963) [Little Sam Talbot]: After riding into the cattlemen's camp for food and to barter for a fresh horse Jan recognizes the gunslinger Owen Spencer (James Gregory). After bragging to the drovers that he was the fastest gun in the territory he tries to force James to draw on him. When James refuses and walks away Jan tries to shoot him in the back where he is then mortally wounded with an abdomen shot when James turns and fires. Before he dies later in the episode he lies to his older brother (Arch Johnson) that James drew on him without provocation.
*Gunsmoke: Blue Heaven (1963) [Ed Sykes]: Shot in the chest in a shoot-out with James Arness.
*Combat!: One at a Time (1966) [Erich]: As a German sergeant who witnessed his entire squad killed in a firefight with White Rook squad, Jan decides to hunt them down one at a time. He is finally tricked into revealing his location where he is mortally wounded by Vic Morrow with his submachinegun. Jan dies quoting the names of the men of his former squad.
*Search: Moment of Madness (1973) [Timothy O'Toole]: Killed (off-screen) by a blow to the back of his neck by Patrick O'Neal; Doug McClure discovers his body seated at his desk in his office.
==Gallery==
File:JanMerlinThem1954.png|Jan Merlin just before his death in Them!
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