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Jay C. Flippen (born
March 6,
1899 in
Little Rock, Arkansas,
USA; died
February 3,
1971 in
Los Angeles) is best remembered as a gruff-faced
actor usually playing a police officer or weary criminal in many movies of the
1940s and
1950s.
Flippen was already an established vaudeville singer and stage actor, after being discovered by famed
African-American comedian Bert Williams in the 1920s, before shifting his focus to films. At one time he was a radio announcer for
New York Yankees games and was one of the first game show announcers. (Between 1924 and 1929, Flippen recorded over 30 songs for
Columbia,
Perfect and
Brunswick). He called himself "The Ham What Am," and performed occasionally in
blackface.
He worked quite a few times with director
Anthony Mann, also with
Nicholas Ray and
Stanley Kubrick.
His films include
They Live by Night (1948),
Winchester '73 with
Jimmy Stewart (1950),
Flying Leathernecks with
John Wayne (1951),
Bend of the River again with
Jimmy Stewart (1952),
The Wild One with
Marlon Brando (1953),
Thunder Bay again with
Jimmy Stewart (1953),
Oklahoma! (1955) (his only singing role),
The Far Country again with
Jimmy Stewart and with
Walter Brennan (1955),
Strategic Air Command again with
Jimmy Stewart (1955),
The Killing (1956),
Jet Pilot again with
John Wayne (1957),
Firecreek again with
Jimmy Stewart and with
Henry Fonda (1968), and
Hellfighters (1968) again with
John Wayne. Flippen also appeared on television, most notably as C.P.O. Nelson on the
1962 sitcom Ensign O'Toole. Later in life he continued acting even though he used a wheelchair following a leg amputation.
Jay Flippen died at the age of seventy-two of an
aneurysm caused by a swollen artery while in surgery. He is buried in the
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in
Los Angeles.
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