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James Flavin

James Flavin

主要领域：表演

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.

作品年表 66

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金剛 1933电影饰演 Mate Briggs

Man with a Camera 1958剧集

The Living Christ 1951剧集饰演 Longinus

The Ghost Breakers 1940电影饰演 Hotel Porter (uncredited)

暗黑街的彈痕 1937电影饰演 State Trooper (uncredited)

羅蘭秘記 1944电影饰演 Det. McEveety (uncredited)

冷血 1967电影饰演 Clarence Duntz

Nora Prentiss 1947电影饰演 District Attorney

The Most Dangerous Game 1932电影饰演 First Mate on Yacht (uncredited)

翠鳳艶曲 1945电影饰演 Radio Cop

巨猩喬揚 1949电影饰演 Schultz

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers 1946电影饰演 Police Detective #1

It Happened on Fifth Avenue 1947电影饰演 First Policeman (uncredited)

歸途路迢迢 1940电影饰演 Dock Policeman

大戰惡魔王 1949电影饰演 Insp. Wellman

Desert Fury 1947电影饰演 Pat Johnson

Million Dollar Mermaid 1952电影饰演 Conductor

Operation Pacific 1951电影饰演 SP Commander

Belle Starr 1941电影饰演 Sergeant

Night Passage 1957电影饰演 Tim Riley

Broadway Melody of 1940 1940电影饰演 Clancy (uncredited)

魔域喋血記 1946电影饰演 Col. Walsh

Nobody Lives Forever 1946电影饰演 Shake Thomas

One Touch of Venus 1948电影饰演 Kerrigan

Sleep, My Love 1948电影饰演 Lieutenant Mitchell

Trouble Along the Way 1953电影饰演 Coach Buck Holman

I Am the Law 1938电影饰演 George - Witness (uncredited)

空軍 1943电影饰演 Maj. A.M. Bagley

The Restless Breed 1957电影饰演 Secret Service Chief

The Noose Hangs High 1948电影饰演 Traffic Cop (uncredited)

Angel on My Shoulder 1946电影饰演 Dan Bellamy

天長地久永不離 1956电影饰演 Timmy

Armored Car Robbery 1950电影饰演 Lt. Phillips

A Stolen Life 1946电影饰演 Investigator (uncredited)

Man on the Flying Trapeze 1935电影饰演 Chauffeur (uncredited)

The Naked Street 1955电影饰演 Attorney Michael X. Flanders

Once Upon a Time 1944电影饰演 Man in Subway (uncredited)

The Velvet Touch 1948电影饰演 Sgt. Oliphant

Hello, Sister! 1933电影饰演 Fireman

Charlie Chan at the Race Track 1936电影饰演 Detective

Francis in the Haunted House 1956电影饰演 Police Chief Martin

Confidentially Connie 1953电影饰演 Harry (uncredited)

碧水良緣 1946电影饰演 Joe

The Ice Follies of 1939 1939电影饰演 Doorman (uncredited)

Four Mothers 1941电影饰演 Demolition Man (uncredited)

Fingers at the Window 1942电影饰演 Police Lieutenant Schaeffer

Here Come the Marines 1952电影饰演 Lieutenant-Colonel at End

The Plunderers 1948电影饰演 Sergeant Major

The Affairs of Cellini 1934电影饰演 Palace Guard (uncredited)

Pot o' Gold 1941电影饰演 Sheriff Bud Connolly

Mr. Wong in Chinatown 1939电影饰演 Police Sgt. Jerry

Murder on the Waterfront 1943电影饰演 Cmdr. Kalin

陳查理上海探案 1945电影饰演 H.R. Jarvis

Robin Hood Of Texas 1947电影饰演 Captain Danforth

Blondie Hits the Jackpot 1949电影饰演 Brophy

It All Came True 1940电影饰演 Roaring 90's Club Doorman (uncredited)

Tough as They Come 1942电影饰演 Process Server

I Beheld His Glory 1953电影饰演 Longinus

The Brand of Hate 1934电影饰演 Holt Larkins

Mannequin 1938电影饰演 Burly Man (Uncredited)

The Missing Lady 1946电影饰演 Police Insp. Cardona

Lightning Carson Rides Again 1938电影饰演 Justice Department Agent

Wives Under Suspicion 1938电影饰演 Jenks (uncredited)

Hold That Hypnotist 1957电影饰演 Jake Morgan

Over 21 1945电影饰演 Captain (uncredited)

South Sea Sinner 1950电影饰演 Andrews