James Flavin
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 |
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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 |