James Flavin

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Información personal

Trabajo principal: Interpretación

Edad: 118 años

Lugar de nacimiento: Portland, Maine, USA

Fecha de nacimiento: 14 de mayo de 1906


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Biografía de James Flavin

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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Filmografía de James Flavin

Fecha de Estreno Título Personaje
2024 La estrategia del mero Rula
2024 23 horas Jose Wong
2023 Érase una vez en el Caribe Mr. Beekman
2023 La pecera Juni
2023 Los Reyes de la Salsa Ralph Mercado
2023 Pies en la arena Marcos
2022 Las Camelias N/A
2022 Todo por amor Ruiz
2021 Perfecto Anfitrión Carlos
2021 Rémora Agent
2021 La última gira Guzmán
2019 Prótesis AD
2019 Tu me manques Padre Jaime
2018 Fistful of Dirt Alicio
2017 El Chata Papillón
2017 The Sound of ILL Days Camilo
2017 Dos caminos N/A
2017 Sol de medianoche Tony Puma
2016 Angélica Juan
2015 3000 Roberto Clemente
2015 Millie and the Lords Enrique
2010 Aventura verde Celso
2008 Las dos caras de Jano Isabelo Andújar
2006 Entremedio N/A
2006 El cimarrón Jacinto
2005 El cuerpo del delito N/A
2004 Desamores Isabelo Andújar
2003 Bala perdida N/A
2003 La otra mafia N/A
2003 Kamaleón N/A
2003 Santa Cristal N/A
2002 Sudor amargo N/A
2001 Second Honeymoon N/A
1998 Mi día de suerte N/A
1998 Héroes de otra patria Daily
1964 La familia Addams Lt. Poston
1963 Mr. Novak Fire Chief Hawkins
1962 The Lucy Show Sergeant Wilcox
1960 Rompeolas N/A
1960 Pete and Gladys N/A
1960 Coronado 9 N/A
1960 Johnny Midnight N/A
1958 Man with a Camera N/A
1958 El hombre del rifle N/A
1957 Richard Diamond, Private Detective Sam Cooper
1956 State Trooper N/A
1954 December Bride N/A
1953 City Detective N/A
1952 La llamada del Oeste Perry
1952 Cavalcade of America N/A
1951 Racket Squad N/A
1951 The Living Christ Longinus
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