American actor
Damian O'Flynn |
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Born | (1907-01-29)January 29, 1907
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Died | August 8, 1982(1982-08-08) (aged 75)
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Occupation | Actor |
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Years active | 1937–1969 |
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Damian O'Flynn (January 29, 1907 – August 8, 1982) was an Irish-American actor of film and television originally from Holt, Nebraska.[1]
Biography
Damian Francis Flynn, stage name Damian O'Flynn, began his stage career in Omaha before attempting the New York stage. He moved to Los Angeles in 1936 and made his screen debut in Marked Woman (1937), after which he was a freelance player for such studios as Warner Brothers, Paramount, and RKO Pictures. While serving in World War II, he was cast with several other actors-in-uniform in Winged Victory, a production of 20th Century Fox.
O'Flynn appeared in many western films and television series. He was cast with Ben Cooper in Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963) and had a bit part in The Far Country (1954). He appeared in two secondary roles in sixty episodes of The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.[2]
In addition to his work in westerns, O'Flynn guest-starred in two episodes of the CBS situation comedy Mr. Adams and Eve in 1957–1958.[3] He played a desk clerk in a 1969 Green Acres episode entitled "The Marital Vacation."
O'Flynn's acting career ended in 1969, and he died in 1982 in Los Angeles, California.
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