James Flavin
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1906-05-14
- Décès:
- 1976-04-23
- Lieu de naissance:
- Portland, Maine, USA
Biographie
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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Filmographie
The Lost Spider Pit Sequence
Francis Gary Powers : The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
Law and Order
The Brady Bunch
Opération Vol
De sang-froid
Good Times
The Pruitts of Southampton
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
Les Cheyennes
La Famille Addams
Un monde fou, fou, fou, fou
Mr. Novak
L'Homme à la Rolls
Critic's Choice
The Lucy Show
Sam Benedict
The New Breed
Dr. Kildare
Cain's Hundred
Monsieur Ed, le cheval qui parle
The Roaring 20's
Surfside 6
Pete and Gladys
Coronado 9
Johnny Midnight
La Quatrième Dimension
La Dernière Fanfare
Johnny Rocco
Man with a Camera
The Rifleman
Car sauvage est le vent
Alcoa Theatre
Le Survivant des monts lointains
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
La Ville de la vengeance
Footsteps in the Night
Hold That Hypnotist
L'aigle vole au soleil
State Trooper
Francis dans la Maison Hantée
Ne dites jamais adieu
Matinee Theater
Alfred Hitchcock présente
Navy Log
Apache Ambush
Le roi du racket
Permission jusqu'à l'aube
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
Deux nigauds chez Vénus
Un homme pas comme les autres
I Beheld His Glory
La Petite Constance
General Electric Theater
Star of Texas
The Abbott and Costello Show
La première sirène
Cavalcade of America
Les Aventuriers du Far West
Four Star Playhouse
La Sarabande des pantins
Un amour désespéré
Here Come the Marines
La Polka des marins
As We Forgive
Dangerous Assignment
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Feu sur le Gang
I Love Lucy
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Rhubarb
Racket Squad
Alerte aux garde-côtes
Follow the Sun
According to Mrs. Hoyle
La revanche des Sioux (Oh ! Susanna)
Opération dans le Pacifique
The Living Christ
Lux Video Theatre
South Sea Sinner
Destination Murder
Armored Car Robbery
The Savage Horde
Mississippi-Express
Planqué malgré lui
Dakota Lil
Prison Warden
The Devil's Henchmen
Blondie Hits the Jackpot
Monsieur Joe
Mississippi Rhythm
Deux nigauds chez les tueurs
Boulevard des passions
Homicide
Jenny, femme marquée
Bungalow 13
The Plunderers
Un caprice de Vénus
The Velvet Touch
Secret Service Investigator
The Noose Hangs High
L'Homme aux lunettes d'écaille
My Girl Tisa
Les Conquérants d'un nouveau monde
Le charlatan
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
Meurtre en musique
La Furie du désert
Robin Hood Of Texas
La Femme déshonorée
C'est arrivé dans la Cinquième Avenue
La brune de mes rêves
Nora Prentiss
Meurtre au Port
Cape et Poignard
L'évadé de l'enfer
Step by Step
L'Emprise du crime
The Missing Lady
Easy to Wed
Rendezvous with Annie
Boys' Ranch
La voleuse
Sentimental Journey
Young Widow
Tars and Spars
The Spider
Hold That Blonde!
Johnny Angel
Le Roman de Mildred Pierce
The Shanghai Cobra
Escale à Hollywood
Over 21
Murder, He Says
Circumstantial Evidence
Bombes sur Hong-Kong
Hollywood Canteen
Laura
Strange Affair
Abroad with Two Yanks
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
Il était une fois
Vacances de Noël
Saboteur sans Gloire
There's Something About a Soldier
Riding High
Swing Shift Maisie
Corvette K-225
Remerciez votre bonne étoile
Murder on the Waterfront
Les anges de miséricorde
Mademoiselle ma femme
Le ciel peut attendre
Convoi vers la Russie
Mission to Moscow
Air Force
Something to Shout About
Deux nigauds dans le foin
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Gentleman Jim
Night in New Orleans
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Thru Different Eyes
Tough as They Come
Broadway
Fingers at the Window
Cinquième Colonne
Kid Glove Killer
Les Naufrageurs des mers du sud
Deux nigauds cow-boys
Treat 'Em Rough
A Yank on the Burma Road
Bedtime Story
Kathleen
The Night of January 16th
New York Town
Qui a tué Vicky Lynn ?
Texas
La Porte d'or
We Go Fast
La Reine des rebelles
L'Entraîneuse fatale
Affectionately Yours
La Danseuse des Folies Ziegfeld
Ride on Vaquero
L'or du ciel
Les Pionniers de la Western Union
La blonde framboise
Deux nigauds soldats
The Wild Man of Borneo
Four Mothers
Tin Pan Alley
Youth Will Be Served
Les Hommes de la mer
The Devil's Pipeline
Les Tuniques écarlates
Knute Rockne, Tous American
The Great Profile
Le rythme de la rivière
Les Daltons arrivent
The Golden Fleecing
South of Pago Pago
Manhattan Heartbeat
The Way of All Flesh
Private Affairs
Lucky Cisco Kid
Queen of the Mob
Le Mystère du château maudit
L'étrange aventure
Florian
Girl in 313
La Conga Nights
Hot Steel
Johnny Apollo
Rendez-vous à minuit
And One Was Beautiful
Les Raisins de la colère
Femmes sans nom
Double Alibi
Castle on the Hudson
Broadway qui danse
Le Régiment des bagarreurs
L'Aventure d'une nuit
The Cisco Kid and the Lady
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Les Fantastiques Années 20
Fast and Furious
Irish Luck
A chaque aube je meurs
They Shall Have Music
Veillée d'amour
They All Come Out
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Mickey the Kid
Un Homme À La Page
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Pacific Express
Rose of Washington Square
Big Town Czar
Code of the Streets
Au service de la loi
Everybody's Baby
La féerie de la glace
Le brigand bien-aimé
The Duke of West Point
While New York Sleeps
Convicts at Large
Blondie
Lightning Carson Rides Again
Un envoyé très spécial
Three Loves Has Nancy
Vous ne l'emporterez pas avec vous
Je suis la Loi
Gateway
Femmes délaissées
La Folle Parade
Pilote d'essai
Miracle Money
Start Cheering
Night Spot
Born to Be Wild
Mannequin
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
J’ai le droit de vivre
Dangerous Number
The Luckiest Girl in the World
They Met in a Taxi
Mon homme Godfrey
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
How to Behave
One Way Ticket
Code secret
Amis pour toujours
Special Agent
Man on the Flying Trapeze
Woman Wanted
The Daring Young Man
La Double vengeance
Chinatown Squad
Public Hero Number 1
Les Hors-la-loi
Straight from the Heart
Captain Hurricane
Secrets of Chinatown
The Brand of Hate
The Affairs of Cellini
Baby Take a Bow
Wild Gold
The Big Race
Beloved
Une nuit seulement
Le Bateau des Fugitifs
Riot Squad
Hello, Sister!
King Kong
Tête brûlée
The All-American
Les Chasses du comte Zaroff
Okay, America!
McKenna of the Mounted
Back Street
The Airmail Mystery