James Flavin
Birthday: 1906-05-14
Place of Birth: Portland, Maine, USA
Biography: 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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According to Mrs. Hoyle
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Start Cheering
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Carrie
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Broadway Melody of 1940
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Manhattan Heartbeat
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Jesse James
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Good Times
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The Ice Follies of 1939
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Union Pacific
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Each Dawn I Die
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Christmas Holiday
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Sergeant Madden
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Fast and Furious
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The Roaring Twenties
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A Stolen Life
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The Wild Man of Borneo
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Lucky Cisco Kid
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South of Pago Pago
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Air Force
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Miracle Money
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Unconquered
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The Long Voyage Home
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Buck Privates
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Pot o' Gold
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No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High ...
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The Restless Breed
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Young Widow
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Ziegfeld Girl
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Okay, America!
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Kid Glove Killer
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Queen of the Mob
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Mickey the Kid
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Secret Service Investigator
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The Velvet Touch
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Nightmare Alley
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Hot Steel
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Test Pilot
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the l...
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South Sea Sinner
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The Last Hurrah
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Return of the Dead
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The Luckiest Girl in the World
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Johnny Angel
George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death....
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Straight from the Heart
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help...
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A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $...
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Hold That Blonde!
Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a g...
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When Tomorrow Comes
A waitress destined for a better life falls in love with a handsome stranger, only to find that he i...
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Critic's Choice
Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be ver...
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Fighter Attack
World War II film set in German occupied Italy. A US fighter pilot is shot down in enemy territory d...
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Come Fill the Cup
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Too Hot to Handle
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pi...
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The Strawberry Blonde
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulat...
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