James Flavin
Acting1906-05-14Portland, Maine, USA
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.
出演作品（312）
New York Town
Hallmark Hall of Fame
トワイライト・ゾーン
The Addams Family
I Love Lucy
怒りの葡萄
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
ローラ殺人事件
ミルドレッド・ピアース
キング・コング
My Man Godfrey
彼奴は顔役だ!
冷血
How to Behave
La Conga Nights
The Luckiest Girl in the World
我が家の楽園
Remember the Night
Hollywood Canteen
The Last Hurrah
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
凸凹劇場 アボット・コステロ
Nightmare Alley
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
Gentleman Jim
Action in the North Atlantic
You Only Live Once
ザ・ルーシー・ショー
呪いの血
The Rifleman
ミスタア・ロバーツ
Blondie
Born to Be Wild
五番街の出来事
Flamingo Road
Start Cheering
Code of the Streets
Come Fill the Cup
The New Breed
City Detective
おかしなおかしなおかしな世界
猟奇島
The Strawberry Blonde
I Wake Up Screaming
The Murder Man
God Is My Co-Pilot
逃走迷路
天国は待ってくれる
Johnny Apollo
I Am the Law
Anchors Aweigh
Murder, He Says
O. Henry's Full House
When Willie Comes Marching Home
Castle on the Hudson
Rhythm on the River
Only Yesterday
The Noose Hangs High
Mister Ed
Each Dawn I Die
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Song of the Thin Man
Uncertain Glory
Manpower
Cheyenne Autumn
Broadway Melody of 1940
Hold Back the Dawn
One Touch of Venus
Buck Privates
The Brady Bunch
The Lost Spider Pit Sequence
My Favorite Brunette
Union Pacific
'G' Men
The Long Voyage Home
Wild Is the Wind
Brother Orchid
Ziegfeld Girl
Test Pilot
Armored Car Robbery
Blondie Hits the Jackpot
Boys' Ranch
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
The Wild Man of Borneo
Air Force
Gateway
Angel on My Shoulder
Texas
Shipmates Forever
Fighting Coast Guard
凸凹殺人ホテル
Swing Shift Maisie
Mr. Novak
Letter to Loretta
Alcoa Theatre
地獄への道
The Ghost Breakers
Night Passage
Cloak and Dagger
Reap the Wild Wind
Never Say Goodbye
黄昏
Rose of Washington Square
Christmas Holiday
Sentimental Journey
Million Dollar Mermaid
It Ain't Hay
General Electric Theater
Death Valley Days
Mighty Joe Young
A Stolen Life
North West Mounted Police
Unconquered
Sleep, My Love
Woman Wanted
The Great Profile
Shockproof
Nobody Lives Forever
Follow the Sun
We Go Fast
They Shall Have Music
And One Was Beautiful
Easy to Wed
Four Mothers
Strange Affair
Special Agent
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Sailor Beware
Nora Prentiss
The Velvet Touch
Step by Step
Kid Glove Killer
Public Hero Number 1
Thank Your Lucky Stars
My Dear Miss Aldrich
Corvette K-225
The Naked Street
Back Street
Man on the Flying Trapeze
When the Daltons Rode
Knute Rockne All American
Operation Pacific
Here Come the Marines
The Devil's Henchmen
Desert Fury
Dragonfly Squadron
Abroad with Two Yanks
The Devil's Pipeline
Sergeant Madden
Rock Island Trail
Chinatown Squad
西部魂
Big Town Girl
Rendezvous with Annie
Over 21
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
Secret Service Investigator
Hold That Blonde!
Burke's Law
December Bride
Sam Benedict
Pete and Gladys
Racket Squad
Coronado 9
Trouble Along the Way
Apache Ambush
Ride 'Em Cowboy
Johnny Angel
It All Came True
Mannequin
Too Hot to Handle
The Savage Horde
Irish Luck
Hello, Sister!
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Something to Shout About
The Shanghai Cobra
Belle Starr
So Proudly We Hail
Dishonored Lady
Public Defender
The Fighting 69th
Once Upon a Time
They All Come Out
The Ice Follies of 1939
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Lucky Cisco Kid
Miracle Money
Baby Take a Bow
The Plunderers
Mission to Moscow
Critic's Choice
Pot o' Gold
Fingers at the Window
They Met in a Taxi
Bedtime Story
Angel's Holiday
I Promise to Pay
Broadway
Dr. Kildare
Footsteps in the Night
Girl in 313
凸凹火星探検
Confidentially Connie
Homicide
The Golden Fleecing
The Spider
Rhubarb
Okay, America!
The Pruitts of Southampton
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Queen of the Mob
Johnny Rocco
The Restless Breed
When Tomorrow Comes
Destination Murder
Francis in the Haunted House
Hold That Hypnotist
Live, Love and Learn
Good Times
Tin Pan Alley
One Way Ticket
Hot News
Kathleen
Wild Gold
Murder on the Waterfront
Wives Under Suspicion
Mississippi Rhythm
Massacre Canyon
The Eddie Cantor Story
Oh! Susanna
Midnight Taxi
According to Mrs. Hoyle
Dakota Lil
The Night of January 16th
Hot Water
The All-American
Hot Steel
South Sea Sinner
Return of the Dead
Air Mail
Surfside 6
The Millionaire
Matinee Theater
The Living Christ
The Affairs of Cellini
The Cisco Kid and the Lady
Lightning Carson Rides Again
South of Pago Pago
Circumstantial Evidence
The Brand of Hate
Fast and Furious
Tars and Spars
Cain's Hundred
The Missing Lady
Tell No Tales
Man with a Camera
Young Widow
Girls Can Play
Everybody's Doing It
Secrets of Chinatown
Captain Hurricane
Riding High
Fighter Attack
Dangerous Number
Rendezvous
Dangerously Yours
I Dood It
Ride on Vaquero
The Way of All Flesh
Women Without Names
Convicts at Large
A Yank on the Burma Road
Double Alibi
Affectionately Yours
The Duke of West Point
Three Loves Has Nancy
Night Spot
Night in New Orleans
Cavalcade of America
Dangerous Assignment
Riot Squad
Climax!
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Ship of Wanted Men
Youth Will Be Served
Prison Warden
Bungalow 13
Florian
My Girl Tisa
McKenna of the Mounted
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
Law and Order
While New York Sleeps
The Airmail Mystery
Manhattan Heartbeat
The Daring Young Man
Everybody's Baby
Thru Different Eyes
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
Robin Hood Of Texas
I Beheld His Glory
Tough as They Come
Star of Texas
Big Town Czar
The Big Race
Private Affairs
Beloved
Mickey the Kid
Straight from the Heart
The Roaring 20's
Johnny Midnight