
Known for
Acting
Born
May 14, 1906
Birthplace
Portland, Maine, USA
Died
April 23, 1976 (aged 69)
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 eac...
2005
as Second Mate Briggs (archive footage)
1976
as President Dwight D. Eisenhower
1976
as Capt. Toomey
1969
1968
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as Clarence Duntz
1967
as Lieutenant
1966
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as Lt. Flynn
1964
as Ft. Robinson Sergeant of the Guard (uncredited)
1964
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as Patrolman (uncredited)
1963
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as Security Guard (uncredited)
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