James Flavin

Q: What is James Flavin's most recent movie or series?

James Flavin's most recent release is The Lost Spider Pit Sequence, which premiered on November 22, 2005.

May 14, 1906 — Apr 23, 1976 (69 years) Portland, Maine, USA

267 Movies 24 Series

James Flavin is an actor active since the 1930s. King Kong remains one of their most celebrated performances, playing Mate Briggs. Their work further includes In Cold Blood and The Strange Love of Martha Ivers. They have 267 films and 24 TV productions to their name, working mainly across genres like drama, adventure, fantasy.

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Knute Rockne All American

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

You Can't Take It with You

Confidentially Connie

Wives Under Suspicion

O. Henry's Full House

Three Loves Has Nancy

1938

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North West Mounted Police

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

General Electric Theater

The Abbott and Costello Show

1952

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In Cold Blood

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The Further Adventures of Gallegher

Lt. Flynn

1965

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Cheyenne Autumn

Ft. Robinson Sergeant of the Guard (uncredited)

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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Patrolman (uncredited)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is James Flavin still alive?

James Flavin passed away on April 23, 1976 at age 69.

What are the most famous roles of James Flavin?

James Flavin is best known for roles in King Kong, The Grapes of Wrath, Laura.

How many movies has James Flavin been in?

Over a 44-year career (since 1932), James Flavin has appeared in 277 movies and 44 TV shows.

What was James Flavin's first movie?

The career of James Flavin began with The Airmail Mystery (1932).

What is James Flavin's most recent movie or series?

James Flavin's most recent release is Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident, which premiered on September 29, 1976.

What TV shows has James Flavin appeared in?

On television, James Flavin has appeared in The Twilight Zone, The Addams Family, I Love Lucy, Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

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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