James Flavin
Born: 1906-05-14 Portland, Maine, USA
Died: 1976-04-23
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 a ...
Acting (in our collection)
In Cold Blood
(1967)
Cheyenne Autumn
(1964)
Night Passage
(1957)
Mister Roberts
(1955)
Million Dollar Mermaid
(1952)
Operation Pacific
(1951)
Mighty Joe Young
(1949)
The Noose Hangs High
(1948)
Song of the Thin Man
(1947)
Cloak and Dagger
(1946)
Easy to Wed
(1946)
Anchors Aweigh
(1945)
Mildred Pierce
(1945)
The Spider
(1945)
Laura
(1944)
Once Upon a Time
(1944)
Action in the North Atlantic
(1943)
Heaven Can Wait
(1943)
Gentleman Jim
(1942)
Buck Privates
(1941)
I Wake Up Screaming
(1941)
Texas
(1941)
Ziegfeld Girl
(1941)
Broadway Melody of 1940
(1940)
The Fighting 69th
(1940)
The Ghost Breakers
(1940)
The Grapes of Wrath
(1940)
The Long Voyage Home
(1940)
Remember the Night
(1940)
Knute Rockne All American
(1940)
Each Dawn I Die
(1939)
The Roaring Twenties
(1939)
You Can't Take It with You
(1938)
You Only Live Once
(1937)
My Man Godfrey
(1936)
'G' Men
(1935)