Errol
Flynn was born on 20 june 1909 in Hobart, Tasmania (Australia). Son
of an oceanographer, biologist and botanist, Theodore Thomson Flynn who
was one of those seas in search of explanations for the marine life.
Their studies began in London and finished in Paris, where he arrived from
form hasty after being expelled from the iron British institution where
he attended. He was a lover of the sport, showing preference soon
for the boxing and it even received the opportunity to represent his country,
Australia, in the Olympic Games of Amsterdam. But the Flynn young
person did not accept the call and he was dedicated to travel by the five
continents and to exert the diverse offices (gold prospector, of per them,
friegaplatos of restaurant). Everything a hippie of years 20.
Three books of memories can be useful whoever to come near more to these
first years of the visa of Errol Flynn: Beam Ends (1937), Showdown
(1946) and My wicked, Wicked Ways, published after his death in 1959.
The theater was first that it attracted the Flynn young person of between
all the artistic options and began to act in several works until it was
discovered by cazatalentos of the Warner. Once discovered, he traveled
to the United States to make debut with the title Blood captain (1935),
whom he would follow the load of the Light Brigade (1936); but the
success, with capital letters, would arrive to him with Robin of the Forests
(1938). The consecration arrived to him with papers from adventurer,
gallant and hero, who never wrinkled themselves before anything and whose
hombría attracted and bewitched to the beautiful lady needed aid
and protection. Between all his great successes, that were and many,
they emphasized the directed ones by Michael Curtiz, with which it collaborated
in eleven largometrajes, and by Raoul Walsh, for which he worked in seven
films. Olivia de Havilland became since it worked with him in 1935
in his ideal cinematographic pair since the serenity of the actress constituted
in the ideal counterpoint to the insolencia and naturalness of Errol Flynn.
The scandal arrived in his life in 1940, when he was judged and acquitted
by violation, although already had whenever to load with that ballast.
His sentimental life can be described as shaken at least: he contracted
three times marriage; the first time with Lily Damita, with which
he had his son , disappeared in the war of Vietnam after to have tried
to prove luck in the cinematographic world; the second time with
Nora Eddington, marriage of which is born Diedre and Rory; and the
third time with Patrice Wymore with which he will have to Arnella.
The certain thing is that his private life was a continuous scandal.
Flynn, mining physically by the excesses with drugs and the alcohol, practically
retired in the ruin and urgeed by the state treasury. From then he
lived in his yacht on which would only leave to participate like secondary
in some project of old friends, the type of Celebration, next to Tyrone
Power, Mel Ferrer and the huge Ava Gardner. Cinematographic director
Irving Rapper, said of him: "He had the entire world in the palm
of his hands and he did not know to take advantage of it". Errol
Flynn passed away the 14 of October of 1959 in Vancouver, Canada, with
only 50 years, but with a life well accomplished.