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James Flavin
Conocido por: InterpretaciónAmerican character actor whose career lasted nearly half a century. James Wilson Flavin Jr. was the son of a hotel waiter of Canadian-English extraction and a mother, Katherine, whose father was an Irish immigrant. (Thus Flavin, well-known in Hollywood as an "Irish" type, was only one-quarter Irish.) Flavin was born and raised in Portland, Maine (a fact that may have enrichened his later working relationship with director John Ford, also a Portland native). He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, but (contrary to some sources) did not graduate. Instead he dropped out and returned to Portland where he drove a taxi. Then as now, summer stock companies flocked to Maine each year, and in 1929 he was asked to fill in for an actor. He did well with the part and the company manager offered him $150 per week to go with the troupe back to New York. Flavin accepted and by the spring of 1930 was living in a rooming house at 108 W. 87th Street in Manhattan. Flavin didn't manage to crack Broadway at this time (his Broadway debut would not occur for another thirty-nine years, in the 1971 revival of "The Front Page," in which Flavin played Murphy and briefly took over the lead role of Walter Burns from star Robert Ryan). He worked his way across the country in stock productions and tours, arriving in Los Angeles around 1932. He quickly made the transition to movies, landing the lead in his very first film, a Universal serial, The Airmail Mystery (1932). He also landed his leading lady, marrying the serial's female star Lucile Browne that same year. However, the serial marked virtually the last time that Flavin would play the lead in a film. Thereafter, he was restricted almost exclusively to supporting characters, many of them without so much as a name. He specialized in uniformed cops and hard-bitten detectives, but played chauffeurs, cabbies, and even a 16th-century palace guard with aplomb. Flavin appeared in nearly four hundred films between 1932 and 1971, and in almost a hundred television episodes before his final appearance, as President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976). Flavin died of a heart ailment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on April 23, 1976. His widow Lucile died seventeen days later. They were survived by their son, William James Flavin, subsequently a professor at the United States Army War College. James and Lucile Brown Flavin were buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Filmografía 66
King Kong
como Mate Briggs 
El Cristo Viviente
como Longinus 
El castillo maldito
como Hotel Porter (uncredited) 
Sólo se vive una vez
como State Trooper (uncredited) 
Laura
como Det. McEveety (uncredited) 
A sangre fría
como Clarence Duntz 
Leven anclas
como Radio Cop 
El Malvado Zaroff
+1
como First Mate on Yacht (uncredited) 
El poderoso Joe
como Schultz 
El extraño caso de Martha Ivers
+3
como Police Detective #1 
Fuerzas aéreas (El bombardero heroico)
como Maj. A.M. Bagley 
Hombres intrépidos
como Dock Policeman 
La hija del pecado
como Pat Johnson 
La primera sirena
como Conductor 
La flota silenciosa
como SP Commander 
Belle Starr
como Sergeant 
Noche trágica
como Tim Riley 
La nueva melodía de Broadway
como Clancy (uncredited) 
Clandestino y caballero
como Col. Walsh 
Nadie vive para siempre
como Shake Thomas 
Abbott y Costello contra los asesinos
como Insp. Wellman 
Venus era mujer
como Kerrigan 
Pacto tenebroso
como Lieutenant Mitchell 
Camino de adversidad
como Coach Buck Holman 
Yo soy la ley
como George - Witness (uncredited) 
La sentencia
como District Attorney 
Casta indomable
como Secret Service Chief 
Sucedió en la 5ª avenida
como First Policeman (uncredited) 
The Noose Hangs High
como Traffic Cop (uncredited) 
El Diablo y yo
como Dan Bellamy 
Hoy como ayer
como Timmy 
Atraco al furgón blindado
como Lt. Phillips 
Una Vida Robada
como Investigator (uncredited) 
Man on the Flying Trapeze
como Chauffeur (uncredited) 
La calle desnuda
como Attorney Michael X. Flanders 
Érase una vez
como Man in Subway (uncredited) 
Hedda Gabler, cae el telón
como Sgt. Oliphant 
Charlie Chan en la pista
como Detective 
Francis in the Haunted House
como Police Chief Martin 
Cuando llega la cigüeña
como Harry (uncredited) 
Que siga la boda
como Joe 
The Ice Follies of 1939
como Doorman (uncredited) 
Las cuatro madrecitas
como Demolition Man (uncredited) 
La mano fatídica
como Police Lieutenant Schaeffer 
Bowery Leathernecks
como Lieutenant-Colonel at End 
Los saqueadores
como Sergeant Major 
El burlador de Florencia
como Palace Guard (uncredited) 
El arca de oro
como Sheriff Bud Connolly 
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
como Police Sgt. Jerry 
Murder on the Waterfront
como Cmdr. Kalin 
Charlie Chan en La Cobra de Shangai
como H.R. Jarvis 
Pasó en Broadway
como Fireman 
Robin Hood Of Texas
como Captain Danforth 
Blondie Hits the Jackpot
como Brophy 
Un ángel disfrazado
como Roaring 90's Club Doorman (uncredited) 
Tough as They Come
como Process Server 
Yo presencié su gloria
como Longinus 
The Brand of Hate
como Holt Larkins 
Maniquí
como Burly Man (Uncredited) 
La Dama Desaparecida
como Police Insp. Cardona 
Lightning Carson Rides Again
como Justice Department Agent 
Wives Under Suspicion
como Jenks (uncredited) 
Hold That Hypnotist
como Jake Morgan 
Locamente enamorada
como Captain (uncredited) 
Pecadora sublime
como Andrews