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James Flavin

James Flavin

Acting
14 May 1906
23 Apr 1976
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...

Also Known As

James William Flavin Jr., James Flaven, Jim Flavin

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