James Flavin
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1906-05-14
- Fallecimiento:
- 1976-04-23
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Portland, Maine, USA
Biografía
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
The Lost Spider Pit Sequence
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
Law and Order
The Brady Bunch
Ladrón sin destino
A sangre fría
Buenos tiempos
The Pruitts of Southampton
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
El gran combate
La familia Addams
El mundo está loco, loco, loco, loco
Mr. Novak
El agente Burke
Elección crítica
The Lucy Show
Sam Benedict
The New Breed
Dr. Kildare
Cain's Hundred
Mister Ed
The Roaring 20's
Rompeolas
Pete and Gladys
Coronado 9
Johnny Midnight
La dimensión desconocida
El último hurra
Johnny Rocco
Man with a Camera
El hombre del rifle
Viento Salvaje
Alcoa Theatre
La última bala
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Casta indomable
Footsteps in the Night
Hold That Hypnotist
Escrito bajo el sol
State Trooper
Francis in the Haunted House
Hoy como ayer
Matinee Theater
Alfred Hitchcock presenta
Navy Log
Apache Ambush
La calle desnuda
Escala en Hawai
The Millionaire
Climax!
December Bride
Return of the Dead
Massacre Canyon
Dragonfly Squadron
Public Defender
The Eddie Cantor Story
Fighter Attack
Hot News
Letter to Loretta
City Detective
Abbott y Costello van a Marte
Un conflicto en cada esquina
I Beheld His Glory
Confidentially Connie
General Electric Theater
Star of Texas
El Show de Abbott y Costello
La primera sirena
Cavalcade of America
La llamada del Oeste
Four Star Playhouse
Cuatro páginas de la vida
Carrie
Here Come the Marines
¡Vaya par de marinos!
As We Forgive
Dangerous Assignment
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Come Fill the Cup
Te quiero, Lucy
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Rhubarb
Racket Squad
Fighting Coast Guard
Devoción invencible
According to Mrs. Hoyle
Oh! Susanna
La flota silenciosa
El Cristo Viviente
Lux Video Theatre
South Sea Sinner
Destination Murder
Atraco al furgón blindado
The Savage Horde
Rock Island Trail
Bill, qué grande eres
Dakota Lil
Prison Warden
The Devil's Henchmen
Blondie Hits the Jackpot
El gran gorila
Mississippi Rhythm
Abbott y Costello Contra el Asesino
Flamingo Road
Homicide
Más fuerte que la ley
Bungalow 13
The Plunderers
Venus era mujer
Hedda Gabler, cae el telón
Secret Service Investigator
The Noose Hangs High
Pacto tenebroso
My Girl Tisa
Los inconquistables
El callejón de las almas perdidas
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
La ruleta de la muerte
La hija del pecado
Robin Hood Of Texas
Pasión que redime
Sucedió en la 5ª avenida
Morena y peligrosa
La sentencia
Nadie vive para siempre
Clandestino y caballero
El Diablo y yo
Paso a paso
El extraño amor de Martha Ivers
The Missing Lady
Que siga la boda
Rendezvous with Annie
Boys' Ranch
Una Vida Robada
Conflicto sentimental
Esclava de un recuerdo
Tars and Spars
The Spider
Detengan a esa rubia
Capitán Angel
Alma en suplicio
The Shanghai Cobra
Levando anclas
Over 21
Murder, He Says
Circumstantial Evidence
Dios es mi copiloto
Hollywood Canteen
Laura
Strange Affair
Abroad with Two Yanks
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
El eterno pretendiente
Luz en el alma
Tres días de gloria
There's Something About a Soldier
En la cumbre de la felicidad
Swing Shift Maisie
Héroes del mar
Adorables estrellas
Murder on the Waterfront
Sangre en Filipinas
I Dood It
El diablo dijo no
Acción en el Atlántico Norte
Misión en Moscú
Fuerzas aéreas (El bombardero heroico)
Something to Shout About
It Ain't Hay
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Gentleman Jim
Night in New Orleans
Diez héroes de West Point
Thru Different Eyes
Tough as They Come
Broadway
Fingers at the Window
Sabotaje
La última prueba
Piratas del mar Caribe
Galopa, muchacho
Treat 'Em Rough
A Yank on the Burma Road
Bedtime Story
Kathleen
The Night of January 16th
New York Town
¿Quién mató a Vicky?
Texas
Si no amaneciera
We Go Fast
Belle Starr
Alta tensión
Affectionately Yours
Las chicas de Ziegfeld
Ride on Vaquero
El arca de oro
Espíritu de conquista
La pelirroja
Reclutas
The Wild Man of Borneo
Four Mothers
Tin Pan Alley
Youth Will Be Served
Hombres intrépidos
The Devil's Pipeline
Policía montada del Canadá
Knute Rockne All American
The Great Profile
Rhythm on the River
Sendas siniestras
The Golden Fleecing
South of Pago Pago
Manhattan Heartbeat
The Way of All Flesh
Private Affairs
Lucky Cisco Kid
Queen of the Mob
El castillo maldito
El hermano orquídea
Florian
Girl in 313
La Conga Nights
Hot Steel
Johnny Apollo
It All Came True
And One Was Beautiful
Las uvas de la ira
Women Without Names
Double Alibi
Castle on the Hudson
La nueva melodía de Broadway
Regimiento heroico
Recuerdo de una noche
The Cisco Kid and the Lady
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Los violentos años veinte
Fast and Furious
Irish Luck
Muero cada amanecer
Rapsodia de juventud
Huracán
They All Come Out
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Mickey the Kid
Tell No Tales
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Unión Pacífico
Es mi hombre
Big Town Czar
Code of the Streets
Sergeant Madden
Everybody's Baby
The Ice Follies of 1939
Tierra de audaces
El duque de West Point
While New York Sleeps
Convicts at Large
Blondie
Lightning Carson Rides Again
Sucedió en China
Three Loves Has Nancy
Vive como quieras
Yo soy la ley
Gateway
Wives Under Suspicion
La banda de Alexander
Piloto de pruebas
Miracle Money
Start Cheering
Night Spot
Born to Be Wild
Maniquí
Everybody's Doing It
Big Town Girl
Live, Love and Learn
Hot Water
Dangerously Yours
My Dear Miss Aldrich
Girls Can Play
Angel's Holiday
I Promise to Pay
Midnight Taxi
Sólo se vive una vez
Dangerous Number
The Luckiest Girl in the World
They Met in a Taxi
Al servicio de las damas
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
How to Behave
One Way Ticket
Rendezvous
Shipmates Forever
Special Agent
Man on the Flying Trapeze
La fugitiva
The Daring Young Man
La voz que acusa
Chinatown Squad
Public Hero Number 1
Contra el imperio del crimen
Straight from the Heart
Captain Hurricane
Secrets of Chinatown
The Brand of Hate
The Affairs of Cellini
Baby Take a Bow
Oro virgen
The Big Race
Beloved
Parece que fue ayer
Ship of Wanted Men
Riot Squad
Hello, Sister!
King Kong
Hombres sin miedo
The All-American
El Malvado Zaroff
Okay, America!
McKenna of the Mounted
La usurpadora
The Airmail Mystery