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Errol Flynn: Biography

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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