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James Flavin

James Flavin

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American 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.

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ترتيب حسب

كينغ كونغ 1933فيلم بدور Mate Briggs

Man with a Camera 1958مسلسل

The Living Christ 1951مسلسل بدور Longinus

The Ghost Breakers 1940فيلم بدور Hotel Porter (uncredited)

You Only Live Once 1937فيلم

بدور State Trooper (uncredited)

لورا 1944فيلم بدور Det. McEveety (uncredited)

بدم بارد 1967فيلم بدور Clarence Duntz

رفع المرسى 1945فيلم بدور Radio Cop

اللعبة الأكثر خطورة 1932فيلم

+2 بدور First Mate on Yacht (uncredited)

Mighty Joe Young 1949فيلم بدور Schultz

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers 1946فيلم

بدور Police Detective #1

Air Force 1943فيلم بدور Maj. A.M. Bagley

بيت الرحلة الطويلة 1940فيلم بدور Dock Policeman

Desert Fury 1947فيلم بدور Pat Johnson

Million Dollar Mermaid 1952فيلم بدور Conductor

Operation Pacific 1951فيلم بدور SP Commander

Belle Starr 1941فيلم بدور Sergeant

Night Passage 1957فيلم بدور Tim Riley

Broadway Melody of 1940 1940فيلم بدور Clancy (uncredited)

Cloak and Dagger 1946فيلم بدور Col. Walsh

Nobody Lives Forever 1946فيلم بدور Shake Thomas

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff 1949فيلم بدور Insp. Wellman

One Touch of Venus 1948فيلم

بدور Kerrigan

Sleep, My Love 1948فيلم بدور Lieutenant Mitchell

Trouble Along the Way 1953فيلم بدور Coach Buck Holman

I Am the Law 1938فيلم بدور George - Witness (uncredited)

Nora Prentiss 1947فيلم بدور District Attorney

The Restless Breed 1957فيلم

بدور Secret Service Chief

It Happened on Fifth Avenue 1947فيلم

بدور First Policeman (uncredited)

The Noose Hangs High 1948فيلم بدور Traffic Cop (uncredited)

ملاك على كتفي 1946فيلم

بدور Dan Bellamy

Never Say Goodbye 1956فيلم بدور Timmy

Armored Car Robbery 1950فيلم بدور Lt. Phillips

A Stolen Life 1946فيلم

بدور Investigator (uncredited)

Man on the Flying Trapeze 1935فيلم بدور Chauffeur (uncredited)

The Naked Street 1955فيلم بدور Attorney Michael X. Flanders

Once Upon a Time 1944فيلم بدور Man in Subway (uncredited)

The Velvet Touch 1948فيلم بدور Sgt. Oliphant

Charlie Chan at the Race Track 1936فيلم بدور Detective

Francis in the Haunted House 1956فيلم بدور Police Chief Martin

Confidentially Connie 1953فيلم بدور Harry (uncredited)

Easy to Wed 1946فيلم بدور Joe

The Ice Follies of 1939 1939فيلم بدور Doorman (uncredited)

Four Mothers 1941فيلم بدور Demolition Man (uncredited)

أصابع في النافذة 1942فيلم بدور Police Lieutenant Schaeffer

Here Come the Marines 1952فيلم بدور Lieutenant-Colonel at End

The Plunderers 1948فيلم بدور Sergeant Major

The Affairs of Cellini 1934فيلم بدور Palace Guard (uncredited)

Pot o' Gold 1941فيلم

+1 بدور Sheriff Bud Connolly

Mr. Wong in Chinatown 1939فيلم

بدور Police Sgt. Jerry

Murder on the Waterfront 1943فيلم بدور Cmdr. Kalin

The Shanghai Cobra 1945فيلم بدور H.R. Jarvis

Hello, Sister! 1933فيلم

بدور Fireman

Robin Hood Of Texas 1947فيلم بدور Captain Danforth

Blondie Hits the Jackpot 1949فيلم

بدور Brophy

It All Came True 1940فيلم بدور Roaring 90's Club Doorman (uncredited)

Tough as They Come 1942فيلم بدور Process Server

I Beheld His Glory 1953فيلم

بدور Longinus

The Brand of Hate 1934فيلم بدور Holt Larkins

Mannequin 1938فيلم بدور Burly Man (Uncredited)

The Missing Lady 1946فيلم بدور Police Insp. Cardona

Lightning Carson Rides Again 1938فيلم بدور Justice Department Agent

Wives Under Suspicion 1938فيلم

بدور Jenks (uncredited)

Hold That Hypnotist 1957فيلم بدور Jake Morgan

Over 21 1945فيلم بدور Captain (uncredited)

South Sea Sinner 1950فيلم بدور Andrews