Jay C. Flippen was an American character actor who often played police officers or weary criminals in many films of the 1940s and 1950s.
Flippen was an established and respected vaudeville singer and stage actor before his film career. He had been discovered by famed African-American comedian Bert Williams in the 1920s. He called himself The Ham What Am, and performed occasionally in blackface. Flippen attained the most coveted booking in vaudeville, headlining at the Palace Theatre in New York,...
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