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Errol Flynn
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn was an Australian and American actor who achieved worldwide fame during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles, frequent partnerships with Olivia de Havilland, and reputation for his womanising and hedonistic personal life.
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entertainment · Australian and American actor (1909–1959) · actor · character actor · screenwriter · film actor · film director · director · musician · writer · also Errol Flynn, Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn, Flynn
Born 20 June 1909 · Died 14 October 1959 · Q93188
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2026· 1 entry
2019· 1 entry
Rotten Tomatoes summarised the critical consensus: "Errol Flynn thrills as the legendary title character, and the film embodies the type of imaginative family adventure tailor-made for the silver screen"
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2017· 1 entry
Journalist Ron Capshaw wrote that while Flynn had called Erben "the greatest influence on his life" and had made antisemitic remarks, Capshaw concluded that it was "not likely" that Flynn had been a Nazi spy given his an
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2013· 1 entry
A copy was discovered in the basement of the surrogate court of New York City
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2009· 1 entry
The mega-yacht marina in the Jamaican north-eastern coastal town of Port Antonio, where Flynn once owned the 64 acre Navy Island and a 2,000 acre coconut plantation and cattle ranch he bequeathed to his widow, Patrice Wy
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2005· 1 entry
A small waterfront reserve in Sandy Bay, a suburb of Flynn's hometown of Hobart, was renamed from Short Beach to the "Errol Flynn Reserve"
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2000· 1 entry
Higham repeated his claim that Flynn had been a German agent, citing corroboration from Anne Lane, secretary to MI5 chief Sir Percy Sillitoe from 1946 to 1951 and the person responsible for maintaining Flynn's British in
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1996· 1 entry
Beverly Aadland gave an interview to Britain's Channel 4 documentary series Secret Lives corroborating the sexual relationship and claiming that the first time she and Flynn had sex, he had "forced himself" on her
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1995· 1 entry
The film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation by the National Film Registry
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1991· 1 entry
By Jay Presson Allen and her daughter Brooke Allen into a one-woman play, The Big Love, which starred Tracey Ullman as Florence Aadland in its New York premiere
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1981· 1 entry
Flynn's daughters, Rory and Deirdre, hired Melvin Belli to sue Higham and his publisher Doubleday for libel
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1980· 1 entry
Author Charles Higham wrote a highly controversial biography, Errol Flynn: The Untold Story, alleging that Flynn was a fascist sympathiser who spied for the Nazis before and during the Second World War and that he was bi
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1969· 1 entry
And that she and her sister Rory received a "little money," proceeds from an insurance policy, and $30,000
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1961· 1 entry
Beverly Aadland's mother, Florence, co-wrote The Big Love with Tedd Thomey, alleging that Flynn had been involved in a sexual relationship with her daughter, who was 15 when it began
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1959· 2 entries
Died 1959-10-14.
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“This man more than superseded my every expectation I had...if you live with a man under duress (this is before the victory…) he is I think…he will rank in history with some of the greats.”
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1956· 1 entry
Presented and sometimes performed in the British-filmed television anthology series The Errol Flynn Theatre, perhaps most notably in the episode entitled "The Strange Auction"
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1952· 1 entry
Was seriously ill with hepatitis, resulting in liver damage
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1946· 1 entry
Flynn published an adventure novel, Showdown, and earned a reported $184,000 (equivalent to $3,040,000 in 2025)
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1944· 1 entry
Released in 1945, a war film set during the Burma Campaign
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1942· 1 entry
And was put under surveillance by the FBI, which uncovered no subversive activities
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1939· 1 entry
Flynn and de Havilland teamed up with Curtiz for Dodge City (1939), the first Western for both of them, set after the U
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1937· 2 entries
As a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War, in which he sympathised with the Republicans
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To report on its civil war as announced or to deliver cash, medicine, supplies and food for the Republican soldiers, as promised
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1934· 1 entry
Flynn was dismissed from Northampton Rep
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1926· 1 entry
Returned to Australia to attend Sydney Church of England Grammar School (known as "Shore"), where he was the classmate of a future Australian prime minister, John Gorton
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1918· 1 entry
Aged nine, when he served as a page boy to Enid Lyons in a queen carnival
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1909· 1 entry
Born 1909-06-20.
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