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(((In his lifetime, Errol Flynn received no recognition from his peers at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He never attended a ceremony in his honor and was not nominated. Could be that his screen persona, the swashbuckler, the rake, stuck to him too well?
Yet in his career he defined a male archetype and forever set his mark on movie maleness, in fact, created a constellation of manly virtues that even today is the stuff of dreams. It’s time to bring the black sheep home. Long regarded as the prodigal son of Hollywood, with his real-life adventures, scrapes and insubordination, Errol Flynn lived every man’s dream of a full life and found himself typecast. As an actor, Flynn built the foundation for characters later elaborated by Mel Gibson, Arnold Schwarznegger, Harrison Ford or Kevin Costner. Flynn was the granddad of action heroes who came in with talking pictures, ushering in the era of action-adventure movies beloved of film buffs throughout the 20th century. He defined the swashbuckling heroic type invented in that era. While in the early years of silent pictures Douglas Fairbanks held sway as the man of filmic dreams, once the talkies arrived, Flynn was in the forefront of the action heroes’ brotherhood.
Flynn made movies, did his own stunts, lived his life, thumbed his nose at studio rules, left Jack Warner fuming in his Burbank office suite and went off to sea. Flynn had many interests, including writing and politics, which toward the end of his life in the late 1950s had him filming in Cuba, making him persona non grata in conservative Hollywood. Careers in the film business ebb and flow.Unfortunately, Flynn did not have a chance to make a comeback late in his career, but died at age 50 of a heart attack. Yet he did have a good run: fifty-three films, some for Jack Warner, others contracted out to MGM, across from great female players such as Olivia De Haviland, Maureen O’Hara, Bette Davis, Greer Garson and others.))))
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) was an Australian-American actor. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his playboy lifestyle. Errol Flynn was born on 20 June 1909 in Hobart, Tasmania, where his father, Theodore Thomson Flynn, was a lecturer (1909) and later professor (1911) of biology at the University of Tasmania. Flynn was born at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Battery Point. His mother was born Lily Mary Young, but dropped the first names Lily Mary shortly after she was married and changed her name to Marelle. In early 1933, Flynn appeared as an amateur actor in the Australian film In the Wake of the Bounty, in the lead role of Fletcher Christian. Later that year he headed back to England intent upon pursuing a career in acting, and shortly after arriving secured a job with the Northampton Repertory Company at the town’s Royal Theatre (now part of Royal & Derngate), where he worked and received his training as a professional actor for seven months. (Northampton’s art-house cinema, the Errol Flynn Filmhouse, is named after him). He also performed at the 1934 Malvern Festival and in Glasgow and London’s West End fleetingly.
In 1934, Flynn was dismissed from Northampton Rep. after a violent fracas with a female stage manager, which involved her being tumbled down a stairwell, and he headed to Warner Brothers’ Teddington Studios in Middlesex where he had worked briefly as an extra (actor) in the movie I Adore You before going to Northampton. With his new-found acting skills he was cast as the lead in Murder at Monte Carlo (currently a lost film) during the filming of which he was signed by Warner Bros. and emigrated to America as a contract actor. Flynn was an overnight sensation in his first starring role soon after arriving in Hollywood,[20] Captain Blood (1935). Quickly typecast as a swashbuckler, he followed it with a succession of films over the next six years that re-invented the sophistication of the action-adventure genre, most of them under the direction of Michael Curtiz, viz., The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936),The Prince and the Pauper (1937), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938; his first Technicolor film), The Dawn Patrol (1938), Dodge City (1939), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) and The Sea Hawk (1940).
Working throughout his career with a cross-section of Hollywood’s best fight arrangers, Flynn became noted for his fast-paced sword fights as seen in The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk and Captain Blood. He also showed an acting range beyond purely action-adventure roles, both at light contemporary social comedy via performances in The Perfect Specimen (1937) and Four’s a Crowd (1938), and melodrama in The Sisters (1938).
Flynn co-starred with Olivia de Havilland a total of eight times, and together they made the most successful on-screen romantic partnership in Hollywood in the late 1930s-early ’40s in Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Four’s a Crowd (1938), Dodge City (1939), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), Santa Fe Trail (1940), and They Died with Their Boots On (1941). While Flynn acknowledged his personal attraction to de Havilland, assertions by film historians that they were privately romantically involved during the filming of Robin Hood[22] have been refuted by de Havilland. In an interview for Turner Classic Movies she said that their relationship was platonic, primarily because Flynn was already married to Lili Damita.
Acting credits
1959 Cuban Rebel Girls
The American Correspondent
1959 Goodyear Theatre (TV Series)
‘Doc’ Boatwright
– The Golden Shanty (1959) … ‘Doc’ Boatwright
1959 The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series)
‘The Duke’ – Gentleman Hobo
– Freddie’s Beat Shack (1959) … ‘The Duke’ – Gentleman Hobo
1958 The Roots of Heaven
Forsythe
1958 Too Much, Too Soon
John Barrymore
1957 The Sun Also Rises
Mike Campbell
1957 Playhouse 90 (TV Series)
Capt. Bidlack
– Without Incident (1957) … Capt. Bidlack
1956-1957 The Errol Flynn Theatre (TV Series)
John Morton / Don Juan / Himself – Host
– Rescued (1957) … John Morton
– 1000th Night of Don Juan (1956) … Don Juan / Himself – Host
1957 The Big Boodle
Ned Sherwood
1957 Istanbul
James Brennan
1956 Screen Directors Playhouse (TV Series)
Francois Villon
– The Sword of Villon (1956) … Francois Villon
1955 King’s Rhapsody
Richard, King of Laurentia
1955 The Dark Avenger
Prince Edward
1954 Let’s Make Up
John ‘Beau’ Beaumont
1954 Crossed Swords
Renzo
1953 The Story of William Tell (Short)
William Tell
1953 The Master of Ballantrae
Jamie Durie
1952 Against All Flags
Brian Hawke
1952 Mara Maru
Gregory Mason
1951 Hello God
Man on Anzio Beach
1951 Adventures of Captain Fabian
Capt. Michael Fabian
1950 Kim
Mahbub Ali, the Red Beard
1950 Rocky Mountain
Capt. Lafe Barstow (CSA)
1950 Montana
Morgan Lane
1949 That Forsyte Woman
Soames Forsyte
1949 It’s a Great Feeling
Jeffrey Bushdinkle, the Groom (uncredited)
1948 Adventures of Don Juan
Don Juan de Maraña
1948 Silver River
Michael J. ‘Mike’ McComb
1947 The Lady from Shanghai
Man in Background Outside of Cantina (uncredited)
1947 Always Together
Errol Flynn (uncredited)
1947 Escape Me Never
Sebastian Dubrok
1947 Cry Wolf
Mark Caldwell
1946 Never Say Goodbye
Phil Gayley
1945 San Antonio
Clay Hardin
1945 Objective, Burma!
Capt. Nelson
1944 Uncertain Glory
Jean Picard / Emil DuPont
1943 Northern Pursuit
Cpl. Steve Wagner
1943 Thank Your Lucky Stars
Errol Flynn
1943 Edge of Darkness
Gunnar Brogge
1942 Gentleman Jim
James J. Corbett
1942 Desperate Journey
Flight Lt. Terrence Forbes
1941 They Died with Their Boots On
George Armstrong Custer
1941 Dive Bomber
Doug Lee
1941 Footsteps in the Dark
Francis Warren
1940 Santa Fe Trail
Jeb Stuart
1940 The Sea Hawk
Geoffrey Thorpe
1940 Virginia City
Kerry Bradford
1939 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Earl of Essex
1939 Dodge City
Wade Hatton
1938 The Dawn Patrol
Courtney
1938 The Sisters
Frank Medlin
1938 Four’s a Crowd
Bob Lansford
1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood
Robin Hood
1937 The Perfect Specimen
Gerald Beresford Wicks
1937 Another Dawn
Captain Denny Roark
1937 The Prince and the Pauper
Miles Hendon
1937 Green Light
Dr. Newell Paige
1936 The Charge of the Light Brigade
Major Geoffrey Vickers
1935 Captain Blood
Peter Blood
1935 Don’t Bet on Blondes
David Van Dusen
1935 The Case of the Curious Bride
Gregory Moxley
1935 Murder at Monte Carlo
Dyter
1933 I Adore You
Bit (uncredited)
1933 In the Wake of the Bounty
Fletcher Christian