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Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 5, 1899
Died
February 3, 1971
Place of Birth
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Also Known As
- John Constantine Flippen Jr.
Jay C. Flippen
0.7 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jay C. Flippen (born March 6, 1899, Little Rock, Arkansas – February 3, 1971, Los Angeles, California) is an American character actor who often played police officers or weary criminals in many movies of the 1940s/'50s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jay C. Flippen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
6.0
Self (archive footage)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
4.3
Jay C. Flippen - Party guest (uncredited)
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
1971
5.5
Luther Yerkes
The Seven Minutes
1971
8.0
Sheriff Ben
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
1971
6.0
Pawnbroker
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
1970
5.0
Bracken's World
1969
0.0
Judge Prentiss
The Sound of Anger
1968
6.4
Jack Lomax
Hellfighters
1968
6.8
Grover
The Name of the Game
1968
6.8
Zack Witten
The Name of the Game
1968
Credits
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
1987
6.0
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
as Jay C. Flippen - Party guest (uncredited)
1971
4.3
The Seven Minutes
as Luther Yerkes
1971
5.5
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
as Sheriff Ben
1971
8.0
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
as Pawnbroker
1970
6.0
Bracken's World
1969
5.0
The Sound of Anger
as Judge Prentiss
1968
0.0
Hellfighters
as Jack Lomax
1968
6.4
The Name of the Game
as Grover
1968
6.8
The Name of the Game
as Zack Witten
1968
6.8
Firecreek
as Mr. Pittman
1968
6.3
Judd for the Defense
1967
7.5
The Spirit Is Willing
as Mother
1967
5.4
Ironside
1967
6.8
Fame Is the Name of the Game
as Dizzy Shaner
1966
4.5
That Girl
1966
6.1
Cat Ballou
as Sheriff Cardigan
1965
6.4
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Drunken Soldier - Herod Antipas' Court
1965
6.4
Looking for Love
as Ralph Front
1964
5.0
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Hugh Ramsey
1963
5.3
Burke's Law
as Bill, the Desk Sergeant
1963
6.0
Burke's Law
as Lieutenant Grogan
1963
6.0
🎬
Vacation Playhouse
as Cappy Skidmore
1963
7.0
Six Gun Law
1962
6.7
How the West Was Won
as Huggins (uncredited)
1962
7.0
Ensign O'Toole
as Chief Petty Officer Homer Nelson
1962
6.5
The Virginian
as Pa Colby
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Asa Keogh
1962
6.4
The Dick Van Dyke Show
as Happy Spangler
1961
7.5
Bus Stop
1961
0.0
The Plunderers
as Sheriff McCauley
1960
6.2
Route 66
1960
6.3
Thriller
as Harry Gans
1960
6.6
Studs Lonigan
as Father Gilhooey
1960
4.2
Wild River
as Hamilton Garth
1960
7.2
Johnny Ringo
as Jay C. Flippen
1959
5.7
Bonanza
as Barney Fuller
1959
7.5
Rawhide
as Marshal Lindstrom
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Bigger Seton
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Sergeant Shaler
1959
7.2
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
5.8
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Chute Wilson
1958
6.8
From Hell to Texas
as Jake Leffertfinger
1958
5.9
No Time at All
as Happy Gallant
1958
0.0
Escape from Red Rock
as Sheriff John Costaine
1957
0.0
Jet Pilot
as Maj. Gen. Black
1957
5.4
The Deerslayer
as Old Tom Hutter
1957
6.0
Run of the Arrow
as Walking Coyote
1957
6.0
Night Passage
as Ben Kimball
1957
6.4
The Midnight Story
as Sgt. Jack Gillen
1957
6.0
Public Pigeon No. 1
as Lt. Ross Qualen
1957
6.0
The Restless Breed
as Marshal Steve Evans
1957
5.2
Hot Summer Night
as Oren Kobble
1957
5.6
The Halliday Brand
as Chad Burris
1957
6.1
The King and Four Queens
as Bartender
1956
5.5
7th Cavalry
as Sgt. Bates
1956
5.9
Playhouse 90
as Happy Gallant
1956
7.6
The Killing
as Marvin Unger
1956
7.7
Oklahoma!
as Skidmore
1955
6.6
Kismet
as Jawan
1955
5.3
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
5.4
Gunsmoke
as Owney
1955
6.6
It's Always Fair Weather
as Charles Z. Culloran
1955
7.0
Strategic Air Command
as Tom Doyle
1955
6.0
Man Without a Star
as Strap Davis
1955
6.4
Six Bridges to Cross
as Vincent Concannon
1955
6.2
Climax!
as Joe
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Detective
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Ed Bagley
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Happy
1954
3.3
Carnival Story
as Charley Grayson
1954
4.3
The Far Country
as Rube
1954
6.9
The Wild One
as Sheriff Stew Singer
1953
6.6
East of Sumatra
as Mac
1953
5.2
Devil's Canyon
as Jack Wells
1953
4.6
Thunder Bay
as Kermit MacDonald
1953
6.1
Woman of the North Country
as Axel Nordlund
1952
4.0
The Las Vegas Story
as Capt. H.A. Harris
1952
5.9
Bend of the River
as Jeremy Baile
1952
6.9
The Model and the Marriage Broker
as Dan Chancellor
1951
6.0
The Lady from Texas
as Sheriff Mike McShane
1951
0.0
The People Against O'Hara
as Sven Norson
1951
5.7
Flying Leathernecks
as MSgt. Clancy, Line Chief
1951
5.8
The Lemon Drop Kid
as Straight Flush Tony
1951
6.5
Two Flags West
as Sgt. Terrance Duey
1950
6.2
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Mr. Lavery
1950
6.3
Winchester '73
as Sergeant Wilkes
1950
7.3
Love That Brute
as Biff Sage
1950
5.3
The Yellow Cab Man
as Hugo
1950
6.3
Buccaneer's Girl
as Jared Hawkins
1950
5.6
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
as Lippy Brannigan
1949
4.7
They Live by Night
as Henry "T-Dub" Mansfield
1949
6.9
Trapped
as Bartender (uncredited)
1949
5.9
Down to the Sea in Ships
as Luke Sewell
1949
7.0
A Woman's Secret
as Police Insp. Jim Fowler
1949
5.6
Intrigue
as Mike, the bartender
1947
5.0
Brute Force
as Hodges (guard)
1947
7.3
🎬
Flippen's Frolics
1936
0.0
Marie Galante
as Sailor in Bar
1934
4.6
Million Dollar Ransom
as Singer (Uncredited)
1934
5.0
The Ham What Am
as Himself
1928
1.0