Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn^[1]

1909 - 1959  (50 years)    Has 18 ancestors and 4 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn
  Birth	20 Jun 1909	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
  Gender	Male
  Prominent People	Aus
  actor
  Death	14 Oct 1959	Vancouver, BC, Canada
  Burial	Forest Lawn Cemetery, Los Angeles county, California, USA
  Person ID	I89423	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	25 Mar 2019

  
  

  Father	Theodore Thomson Flynn,   b. 11 Oct 1883, Coraki, Nsw, Australia d. Aug 1967 (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Lily Mary Young,   b. Abt 1886, Australia d. Jul 1966, Brighton, Sussex, England (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	23 Jan 1909	Balmain North, Sydney, Nsw, Australia
  Family ID	F36687	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Lili Damita,   b. 19 Jul 1901, Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes, France d. 21 Mar 1994, Palm Beach, Florida, USA (Age 92 years)
  Marriage	19 Jun 1935	Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
  Divorce	1942
  Children	1. Sean Flynn,   b. 31 May 1941   d. 1970, Vietnam (Age 28 years)
  Family ID	F36688	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2002

  
  

  Family 2	Doris Duke,   b. 22 Nov 1912   d. 28 Oct 1993 (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F147599	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Mar 2002

  
  

  Family 3	Nora Edington,   b. 25 Feb 1924, Chicago, Illinois, USA d. 20 Apr 2001, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California, USA (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	2 Feb 1945
  Divorce	7 Jul 1948
  Children	1. Living   2. Living
  Family ID	F36689	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2002

  
  

  Family 4	Living
  Children	1. Arnella Flynn,   b. 25 Dec 1953   d. 1997 (Age 43 years)
  Family ID	F36690	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2002

  
  

  Family 5	Living
  Family ID	F192119	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Jul 2004

  
  

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  		Birth - 20 Jun 1909 - Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Death - 14 Oct 1959 - Vancouver, BC, Canada  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  In 1933, in his first film, he played the role of Fletcher Christian in the Australian production, "In the Wake of the Bounty", the first film ever produced of the Bounty mutiny. The film was never released in the USA. It's rights were purchased by MGM who immediately decided to produce their own version, the 1935 film starring Charles Laughton & Clark Gable. Errol Flynn went on to star in many films, nearly always as a swashbuckling hero. was a rambunctious child who could be counted on to find trouble. When the family took up residence in England, Errol managed to have himself thrown out of every school he was enrolled in. In his late teens he set out to find gold, but instead found a series of short lived odd jobs. Information is sketchy, but the positions of police constable, sanitation engineer, treasure hunter, sheep castrator, shipmaster for hire, fisherman, and soldier seem to be among his more reputable career choices. Staying one jump ahead of the law and jealous husbands forced Flynn back to England. He took up acting, a passtime he had previously stumbled into when asked to play (ironically) Fletcher Christian in a film called In the Wake of the Bounty (1933). Errol Flynn's natural athletic talent and good looks attracted the attention of Warner Brothers and soon he was off to America. Flynn's luck held when he replaced Robert Donat in the title role of Captain Blood (1935). He quickly rocketed to stardom as the undisputed king of swashbuckler films, a title inherited from Douglas Fairbanks, but which remains Flynn's to this day. Onscreen, he was the freedom loving rebel, a man of action who fought against injustice and won the hearts of damsels in the process. His offscreen passions; drinking, fighting, boating and sex, made his film escapades seem pale. His love life brought him considerable fame, three statutory rape trials, and a lasting memorial in the expression "In like Flynn". Serious roles eluded Flynn, and as his lifestyle eroded his youthful good looks, his career declined. Troubles with lawsuits and the IRS plagued him at this time, eroding what little money he had saved. A few good roles did come his way late in life, however, usually aging alchoholics, almost mirror images of Flynn. He was making a name as a serious actor before his death. Flynn is purported to have had a sexual liaison with film producer/industrialist/millionaire Howard Hughes

  
  

• Sources

  [S317] Karl Rowe Anderson, Mutiny on the HMS Bounty, (1998).