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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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King Kong 1933Film

jako Mate Briggs

Man with a Camera 1958Serial

The Living Christ 1951Serial jako Longinus

The Ghost Breakers 1940Film jako Hotel Porter (uncredited)

Tylko raz Żyjemy 1937Film

jako State Trooper (uncredited)

jako Det. McEveety (uncredited)

Z zimną krwią 1967Film

jako Clarence Duntz

Podnieść kotwicę 1945Film

+1 jako Radio Cop

Hrabia Zarow 1932Film

+2 jako First Mate on Yacht (uncredited)

Potężny Joe Young 1949Film jako Schultz

Dziwna miłość Marty Ivers 1946Film

+2 jako Police Detective #1

It Happened on Fifth Avenue 1947Film

+2 jako First Policeman (uncredited)

Długa podróż do domu 1940Film jako Dock Policeman

Desert Fury 1947Film jako Pat Johnson

Million Dollar Mermaid 1952Film jako Conductor

Operacja Pacyfik 1951Film jako SP Commander

Belle Starr 1941Film jako Sergeant

Nocne przejście 1957Film jako Tim Riley

Broadway Melody of 1940 1940Film jako Clancy (uncredited)

Cloak and Dagger 1946Film jako Col. Walsh

Nobody Lives Forever 1946Film jako Shake Thomas

Abbott i Costello spotykają mordercę 1949Film jako Insp. Wellman

One Touch of Venus 1948Film

jako Kerrigan

Sleep, My Love 1948Film jako Lieutenant Mitchell

Życiowe kłopoty 1953Film jako Coach Buck Holman

I Am the Law 1938Film jako George - Witness (uncredited)

Nora Prentiss 1947Film jako District Attorney

Mściwy jastrząb 1943Film jako Maj. A.M. Bagley

The Restless Breed 1957Film

jako Secret Service Chief

The Noose Hangs High 1948Film jako Traffic Cop (uncredited)

Angel on My Shoulder 1946Film

jako Dan Bellamy

Never Say Goodbye 1956Film jako Timmy

Armored Car Robbery 1950Film jako Lt. Phillips

A Stolen Life 1946Film

jako Investigator (uncredited)

Man on the Flying Trapeze 1935Film jako Chauffeur (uncredited)

The Naked Street 1955Film jako Attorney Michael X. Flanders

Once Upon a Time 1944Film

jako Man in Subway (uncredited)

The Velvet Touch 1948Film jako Sgt. Oliphant

Charlie Chan at the Race Track 1936Film jako Detective

Francis in the Haunted House 1956Film jako Police Chief Martin

Confidentially Connie 1953Film jako Harry (uncredited)

Easy to Wed 1946Film jako Joe

The Ice Follies of 1939 1939Film jako Doorman (uncredited)

Four Mothers 1941Film jako Demolition Man (uncredited)

Fingers at the Window 1942Film jako Police Lieutenant Schaeffer

Here Come the Marines 1952Film jako Lieutenant-Colonel at End

The Plunderers 1948Film jako Sergeant Major

Sprawa Celliniego 1934Film jako Palace Guard (uncredited)

Pot o' Gold 1941Film

jako Sheriff Bud Connolly

Mr. Wong in Chinatown 1939Film jako Police Sgt. Jerry

Murder on the Waterfront 1943Film jako Cmdr. Kalin

The Shanghai Cobra 1945Film jako H.R. Jarvis

Hello, Sister! 1933Film

jako Fireman

Robin Hood Of Texas 1947Film jako Captain Danforth

Blondie Hits the Jackpot 1949Film

jako Brophy

It All Came True 1940Film jako Roaring 90's Club Doorman (uncredited)

Tough as They Come 1942Film jako Process Server

I Beheld His Glory 1953Film

jako Longinus

The Brand of Hate 1934Film jako Holt Larkins

Mannequin 1938Film jako Burly Man (Uncredited)

The Missing Lady 1946Film jako Police Insp. Cardona

Lightning Carson Rides Again 1938Film jako Justice Department Agent

Wives Under Suspicion 1938Film jako Jenks (uncredited)

Hold That Hypnotist 1957Film jako Jake Morgan

Over 21 1945Film

jako Captain (uncredited)

South Sea Sinner 1950Film jako Andrews