Errol Flynn
| Errol Flynn | |
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Flynn c. 1940
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| Born |
Errol Leslie Flynn 20 June 1909 Battery Point, Tasmania, Australia |
| Died | 14 October 1959 (aged 50) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Citizenship |
British subject (1909–1942) United States (1942–1959) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1932–1959 |
| Spouse(s) |
Lili Damita (m. 1935; div. 1942) Nora Eddington (m. 1943; div. 1949) Patrice Wymore (m. 1950) |
| Children | 4, including Sean |
Errol Leslie Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) was an Australian-born actor who achieved fame in Hollywood after 1935. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films, as well as frequent partnerships with Olivia De Havilland, and became an American citizen in 1942.
Errol Leslie Flynn was born in a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, where his father, Theodore, was a lecturer (1909) and later professor (1911) of biology at the University of Tasmania. His mother was born Lily Mary Young, but shortly after marrying Theodore at St. John's Church of England, Birchgrove, Sydney, on 23 January 1909, she changed her first name to Marelle. Flynn described his mother's family as "seafaring folk" and this appears to be where his lifelong interest in boats and the sea originated. Both of his parents were native-born Australians of Irish, English, and Scottish descent. Despite Flynn's claims, the evidence indicates that he was not descended from any of the Bounty mutineers.
After early schooling in Hobart, from 1923 to 1925 Flynn was educated at the South West London College, a private boarding school in Barnes, London, and in 1926 returned to Australia to attend Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore School) where he was the classmate of a future Australian prime minister, John Gorton. His formal education ended with his expulsion from Shore for theft, and, he later claimed, for a sexual encounter with the school's laundress. After being dismissed from a job as a junior clerk with a Sydney shipping company for pilfering petty cash, he went to Papua New Guinea at the age of eighteen, seeking his fortune in tobacco planting and metals mining. He spent the next five years oscillating between the New Guinea frontier territory and Sydney.
In January 1931, he became engaged to Naomi Campbell-Dibbs, the youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs R Campbell-Dibbs of Temora and Bowral NSW, a relationship which ended before 1935.
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