13 Facts About James Flavin

Summer stock companies flocked to Maine each year, and in 1929 James Flavin was asked to fill in for an actor.

James Flavin did well with the part and the company manager offered him $150 per week to accompany the troupe back to New York.

James Flavin worked his way across the country in stock productions and tours, arriving in Los Angeles around 1932.

James Flavin quickly made the transition to movies, landing the lead role in his very first film, a Universal serial, The Airmail Mystery.

James Flavin married his costar in that film, Lucile Browne, that same year.

James Flavin specialized in uniformed cops and hard-bitten detectives, but played chauffeurs, cabbies, and even a 16th-century palace guard.

James Flavin appeared in nearly four hundred films between 1932 and 1971.

James Flavin portrayed Sam Cooper in the 1958 episode, "The Ed Church Case", of the CBS crime drama series, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, starring David Janssen.

In 1960, James Flavin appeared in The Twilight Zone episode "A Passage for Trumpet".

From 1960 to 1962, James Flavin appeared three times on the CBS sitcom, Pete and Gladys, with Harry Morgan and Cara Williams.

James Flavin had a recurring role on CBS' talking-horse sitcom Mister Ed as Mr Kramer, the stable owner.

James Flavin made his Broadway debut in the 1969 revival of The Front Page, in which he played Murphy and briefly took over the lead role of Walter Burns from Robert Ryan.

James Flavin died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, on April 23,1976, after suffering a heart attack.