Post by Teleadm on Mar 22, 2024 21:26:42 GMT
A familiar face in supporting roles that could play both sides of the law, with or against our hero or heroine, but he had a long career before becoming a supporting actor in the late 1940's, that would last until the early 1970's.
He once was a respectable vaudeville artist and minstrel artist in the 1920's. Minstrels meant blackface, something he refused to do after 1928, but still did Minstrel shows without blackface.
He became an early radio star Master of Ceremony, radio announcer of New York Yankees, an early radio game show host, a headliner on vaudeville sell-out shows between 1926 and 1931, recorded banjo jazz records.
During a national tour of Hellzapoppin he was eventualy discovered by Hollywood, and that would become a second career for the former vadeuvillian (refered to as such in earlier reviews).
In the mid 1960's he had a leg amputated, but that didnt stop him, there were still sitting-down roles or wheelchair roles.
This years we celebrate his 125th birthdate in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Jay C. Flippen (1899-1971)
He re-created his popular Minstrel act in an early Warner Vitagraph short The Ham That Am 1928, and made another short named Flippen's Frolics 1936.
His movie debut as supporting actor was in Brute Force 1947.
As T-Dub in They Live by Night 1948 directed by Nicholas Ray.
Anthony Mann's Winchester '73 1950.
Far right in Bob Hope vehicle The Lemon Drop Kid 1951
With James Stewart in Thunder Bay 1953.
In iconic The Wild One 1953, with Marlon Brando.
In lilac suite in musical Oklahoma 1955 a bit of vaudeville background comes back.
On the right in Kubrick's early masterpiece (OP opinion) The Killing 1956.
Not pleased what Dan Duryea thinks in Night Passage 1957, James Stewart starred.
Elia Kazan's Wild River 1960
Uncredited in mega-western How the West was Won 1962. Strange since nearly everyone else was credited.
As Sheriff Cardingan in hit western comedy Cat Ballou 1965.
It was during this production that he scratched a leg against a car door, that would turn nearly fatal, said to be because of diabetis and a rapidly spreading virus, one of his legs was amputated.
Sitting in a wheelchair in John Wayne's firefighter movie Hellfighters 1968
Last credited movie appearance was in Russ Mayers The Seven Minutes 1971
Thanks for watching!
Opinions of all kinds are as always welcome
He once was a respectable vaudeville artist and minstrel artist in the 1920's. Minstrels meant blackface, something he refused to do after 1928, but still did Minstrel shows without blackface.
He became an early radio star Master of Ceremony, radio announcer of New York Yankees, an early radio game show host, a headliner on vaudeville sell-out shows between 1926 and 1931, recorded banjo jazz records.
During a national tour of Hellzapoppin he was eventualy discovered by Hollywood, and that would become a second career for the former vadeuvillian (refered to as such in earlier reviews).
In the mid 1960's he had a leg amputated, but that didnt stop him, there were still sitting-down roles or wheelchair roles.
This years we celebrate his 125th birthdate in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Jay C. Flippen (1899-1971)
He re-created his popular Minstrel act in an early Warner Vitagraph short The Ham That Am 1928, and made another short named Flippen's Frolics 1936.
His movie debut as supporting actor was in Brute Force 1947.
As T-Dub in They Live by Night 1948 directed by Nicholas Ray.
Anthony Mann's Winchester '73 1950.
Far right in Bob Hope vehicle The Lemon Drop Kid 1951
With James Stewart in Thunder Bay 1953.
In iconic The Wild One 1953, with Marlon Brando.
In lilac suite in musical Oklahoma 1955 a bit of vaudeville background comes back.
On the right in Kubrick's early masterpiece (OP opinion) The Killing 1956.
Not pleased what Dan Duryea thinks in Night Passage 1957, James Stewart starred.
Elia Kazan's Wild River 1960
Uncredited in mega-western How the West was Won 1962. Strange since nearly everyone else was credited.
As Sheriff Cardingan in hit western comedy Cat Ballou 1965.
It was during this production that he scratched a leg against a car door, that would turn nearly fatal, said to be because of diabetis and a rapidly spreading virus, one of his legs was amputated.
Sitting in a wheelchair in John Wayne's firefighter movie Hellfighters 1968
Last credited movie appearance was in Russ Mayers The Seven Minutes 1971
Thanks for watching!
Opinions of all kinds are as always welcome