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
2005 The Lost Spider Pit Sequence Second Mate Briggs (archive footage)
1967 A sangre fría Clarence Duntz
1967 Buenos tiempos Lieutenant
1965 The Further Adventures of Gallegher Lt. Flynn
1960 The Roaring 20's N/A
1958 Johnny Rocco Mooney
1958 Man with a Camera N/A
1957 Viento Salvaje Wool Buyer
1957 Footsteps in the Night Mr. Bradbury
1957 Hold That Hypnotist Jake Morgan
1956 Francis in the Haunted House Police Chief Martin
1955 Apache Ambush Col. Marshall
1955 La calle desnuda Attorney Michael X. Flanders
1954 Massacre Canyon Col. Tarant
1953 Hot News Al Bragg
1953 Abbott y Costello van a Marte First Policeman in Bank
1953 I Beheld His Glory Longinus
1953 Star of Texas Texas Rangers Capt. Sturdivant
1951 Devoción invencible Henry Gibbs
1951 According to Mrs. Hoyle Prosecuting Attorney
1951 Oh! Susanna Capt. Worth
1951 The Living Christ Longinus
1950 South Sea Sinner Andrews
1950 Destination Murder Police Lt. Brewster
1950 Atraco al furgón blindado Lt. Phillips
1950 Dakota Lil Secret Service Chief
1949 Prison Warden Guard Capt. Peter Butler
1949 The Devil's Henchman Police Sergeant Briggs
1949 Blondie Hits the Jackpot Brophy
1949 Abbott y Costello Contra el Asesino Insp. Wellman
1949 El gran gorila Schultz
1949 Mississippi Rhythm Stan Caldwell
1949 Homicide Det. Lt. Boylan
1949 Más fuerte que la ley Policeman in Park (Uncredited)
1948 Bungalow 13 Lt. Sam Wilson
1948 The Plunderers Sergeant Major
1948 Venus era mujer Kerrigan
1948 Secret Service Investigator Police Inspector Thorndyke
1947 La hija del pecado Pat Johnson
1947 Robin Hood Of Texas Captain Danforth
1947 La sentencia District Attorney
1946 Nadie vive para siempre Shake Thomas
1946 Clandestino y caballero Col. Walsh
1946 El Diablo y yo Bellamy
1946 El extraño amor de Martha Ivers Police Detective #1
1946 The Missing Lady Police Insp. Cardona
1946 Tars and Spars Chief Bosun Mate Gurney
1945 The Spider Officer Johnny Tracy
1944 Abroad with Two Yanks Sgt. Wiggins
1944 Luz en el alma Policeman
1944 Tres días de gloria Captain of Mobile Guard
1943 Murder on the Waterfront Cmdr. Kalin
1942 Thru Different Eyes Thomas
1942 Fingers at the Window Police Lieutenant Schaeffer
1942 Treat 'Em Rough Joe Trosper
1942 A Yank on the Burma Road Police Dispatcher
1941 We Go Fast Police Lt. Bardette
1941 El arca de oro Sheriff Bud Connolly
1940 The Devil's Pipeline Dowling
1940 Manhattan Heartbeat Truck Driver
1940 Hot Steel Storm Swenson
1939 Irish Luck Fluger
1939 Mr. Wong in Chinatown Police Sgt. Jerry
1939 Mickey the Kid Sanders
1938 Convicts at Large Detective Sgt. Berkovich
1938 Wives Under Suspicion Jenks - Chauffeur (uncredited)
1938 Miracle Money Cop (uncredited)
1937 I Promise to Pay Bill Seaver
1936 They Met in a Taxi Policeman
1936 How to Behave Man in Manhole (uncredited)
1935 One Way Ticket Ed
1935 Captain Hurricane Freighter Officer
1935 Secrets of Chinatown Brandhma
1934 The Brand of Hate Holt Larkins
1934 Baby Take a Bow Flannigan
1934 The Big Race Bill Figg
1933 Ship of Wanted Men Frank Busch
1933 Riot Squad Det. Mack McCue
1933 Hello, Sister! Fireman
1933 King Kong Mate Briggs
1932 El Malvado Zaroff First Mate on Yacht (uncredited)
1932 McKenna of the Mounted Corporal Randall McKenna
1932 The Airmail Mystery Bob Lee
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