- Date of Birth: June 20, 1909
- Place of Birth: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Skin this page.
Errol Flynn Biography
(What's this?)
What is the EasyEdit button?
This website gets better when people like you add to it. Just click the EasyEdit button to start. (help)
|
Errol Flynn mini-bio: Errol Flynn stumbled into acting when asked to play Fletcher Christian in a film called In the Wake of the Bounty (1933). Flynn's natural athletic talent and good looks attracted the attention of Warner Brothers and soon he was off to America. His 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. Serious roles eluded him, and as his lifestyle eroded his youthful good looks, his career declined. A few good roles did come his way late in life, and shortly before his death he made a name for himself as a serious actor.
Meet Other Fans
Comments
-
sirocoblueposted 281 days ago -
love him! i sometimes wish he was born at the same time as brad pitt! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.......
posted 854 days ago -
The Pirates of the Carribean trilogy x 100 = Captain Blood
Flynn = Legendposted 953 days ago -
"They're gonna do a biopic about him and luke flynn his grandson is gonna play him so I can't wait" That's excellent news. I wonder what that movie will be rated. ;-)
posted 1010 days ago -
Joan Crawford called him "The most beautiful man who ever lived", Bette Davis thought him "insufferable". Errol Leslie Thompson Flynn was a character who caused more talk in and out of Hollywood than few other have been able to do. "Flynn's" last screen appearance was in the Leonardo DiCaprio film "The Aviator" in a nightclub sequence. Here a drunk Flynn (Jude Law) esconces himself down with Howard Hughes (DiCaprio) and Katherine Hepburn and proceeds to reach over and steal an English pea from the half nutty Hughes's plate. Hughes freaks out and leaves with Hepburn while, in the background, a patron whose chair Flynn has stolen demands it back and Flynn, an ex middleweight boxer, stands up and punches the guy's lights out. This incident, according to Martin Scorcese, is true.
From "Captain Blood", "The Charge of the Light Brigade",& "The Sea Hawk", to "Dodge City" and beyond, this excellent actor was one of the screen's greatest charmers and action heroes.posted 1033 days ago -
They're gonna do a biopic about him and luke flynn his grandson is gonna play him so I can't wait
posted 1057 days ago -
Errol Flynn was an icon of his time. The rougish youth who women used to swoon over. He's both a great actor and a good man. Troubled as his life was he managed to keep it together.
posted 1105 days ago
