Errol Flynn

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  • Birth Name: Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn
  • Birth Place: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 06/20/1909, Gemini
  • Date of Death: 10/14/1959
  • Profession: Actor
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Errol Flynn Fast Facts:
  • Father was the noted marine biologist Theodore Flynn.
  • Purchased a boat in 1930 and sailed to New Guinea, where he ran a tobacco plantation.
  • Began his acting career in the docudrama In the Wake of the Bounty (1933), playing the role of Fletcher Christian.
  • First major film role was in the Warner Brothers film Captain Blood (1935), replacing Robert Donat. 
  • Unable to serve in World War II due to several physical ailments.
  • Charged with the statutory rape of two teenaged girls in 1942; he was acquitted, but the incident coined the phrase "In Like Flynn" to describe his legendary womanizing. 
  • Memoir, titled My Wicked, Wicked Ways, was published posthumously. He allegedly wanted to call the book In Like Me, but the publishers rejected that title.
  • His son, Sean, was a photojournalist working in Cambodia when he disappeared in April 1970.  He was never found and was declared legally dead in 1984.
  • Errol Flynn Relationships:
  • Theodore Thomson Flynn - Father
  • Marelle Young - Mother
  • Patrice Wymore Flynn - Wife
  • Nora Eddington - Ex-wife
  • Lili Damita - Ex-wife
  • Sean Flynn - Son
  • Deirdre Flynn - Daughter
  • Rory Flynn - Daughter
  • Arnella Roma Flynn - Daughter
  • Rosemary - Sister
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