Sean Flynn (Errol Flynn's Son) MIA 1970
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Sean Leslie Flynn (born May 31, 1941; disappeared April 6, 1970, age 28; declared legally dead in 1984 was an American actor and freelance photojournalist best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War. He started a news service in Saigon with John Steinbeck IV, son of the American author.
Flynn was the only child of the marriage of Errol Flynn and Lili Damita. After studying briefly at Duke University, he became a movie actor like his parents.
Sean and Errol Flynn had only one thing in common. Both were uncommonly handsome. At six-two, blond, hazel eyes, Sean was considered by many to be le plus beau. Like his father he attracted women. Unlike his father he didn't chase skirts. Neither was he a boozer or a brawler. (As written by Zalin Grant) www.pythiapress...
When he retired from acting, Flynn became a freelance photojournalist under contract to Time. In a search for exceptional images, he attached himself to Special Forces units and even irregulars operating in remote areas.
Flynn arrived in South Vietnam in January 1966, as a freelance photojournalist; first for the French magazine Paris-Match, then for Time-Life and finally for United Press International. His photos were soon published around the world. He soon made a name for himself as one of that group of high-risk photojournalists who would do anything to get the best pictures; even going into combat.
On April 6, 1970, while traveling by motorcycle in Cambodia, Flynn and Dana Stone (on assignment for Time magazine and CBS News respectively) were captured by communist guerrillas at a roadblock on Highway One. They were never heard from again and their remains have never been found. Although it is known that they were captured by Vietnamese Communist forces, it has been suggested that they died in the hands of "hostile" forces. Citing various government sources, the current consensus is that he (or they) were held captive for over a year before they were killed by Khmer Rouge in June 1971.
Flynn's mother, Lili Damita, spent an enormous amount of money searching for her son, with no success. In 1984 she had him declared legally dead.
The story of Sean Flynn was immortalized by The Clash in the song "Sean Flynn" from the album Combat Rock. He is a major character in Michael Herr's Dispatches. He was portrayed by Kevin Dillon in the 1992 mini-series Frankie's House.
In March 2010, a British team searching for Flynn's body thought they had found it, when they uncovered the remains of a Western hostage allegedly executed by the Khmer Rouge. Tests results on the human remains found at the grave site in eastern Kampong Cham province, Cambodia were released on June 30, 2010 and they were found not to be the remains of Sean Flynn. Lt. Col. Wayne Perry of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) said there was no match between DNA from the recovered remains and DNA samples they had on file from the Flynn family.
A film inspired by his exploits as a photojournalist entitled, The Road to Freedom, was shot on location in Cambodia. Completed in 2010, the film is due for theatrical release in 2011.
I went to prep school with Sean, and we became friends working in the theater club, He was certainly dazzlingly beautiful for an 18 year old, but what was most impressive was his easy-going kindness and genuineness. He really talked to you. And he knew how to listen. I paid homage to him in Hanoi when I visited and went to the "American War Museum" and saw some of his photos along with hundreds of others taken during the conflict. It took me a couple of days to recover from my impressions.
Thankyou David. That was interesting to read about your time with Sean back in the day.
Thank you for sharing your memories and impressions with us. Sean certainly appeared to have taken the road less traveled and did so with intrepidity and fortitude. He could have chosen a far less dangerous path in life, but obviously didn’t. Speaks well of his inner being and character, in my opinion.
I met a man in Ireland too who knew him in Vietnam. Greetings from Ireland ☘☘☘
I guess, like father like son. Rest in Peace, Errol and Sean.
This man grew up with a silver spoon but decided that’s not who he was . He chose a difficult path , an honest path , a path straight and narrow , never to come home . RIP Soldier. Thank You!
Wtf soldiers?
@@redskyatnight123 MIA ( Missing in Action)
Handsome and looked just like his father. Gone too soon. 😥
I read that she never stopped looking for him. It's devastating to lose a child but worse to never know where he is or what happened.
An-T M I agree
It's a shame he was never found, but there are many other brave men and women who lost their lives let's not forget them.
Our country is still trying to find the remains o MIAs, hopefully they will all come home - for the peace it will bring their famlies.
There is no but. People are free to focus where they want to focus. If you feed a homeless person you are not obligated to think of every homeless person in every city and country in the world.
right but he can have our attention for 3 minutes. There's no harm in that.
He and his father were gorgeous.
His father played heroes. But he became a real one.
@C J Bowen Too right mate.
He wasn’t in the military. He was a freelance photographer. He and a friend took a motorcycle ride into Cambodia. Not the most intelligent thing to do in a place like that
@@aa64912 He was a war correspondent, I don't think the American army gave uniforms to just anybody anyway he had the BALLS and the bravery to go there in the first place. RIP SEAN.
Norman Curragh he got he and his friend killed. I did two tours there and it was no place to be joy riding,
@@aa64912 I agree with you....guy with a camera is definitely no hero's mission. Just a moronic move..chalk it up to shit happens
A handsome young man. Like so many other young men gone too soon in political wars. God Bless them all.
A nicely made tribute to Sean. The shot of him at 2:56 was taken in his Paris flat..the same flat that remained locked up and forgotten about for 20 years. When it was finally rediscovered and opened up in 1990 it was a perfect time capsule and left just as Sean had walked out the door in 1970. Wardrobes full of his clothes, photographs on the walls, piles of books and even cigarettes still in the ashtrays. A fascinating link to Sean that came long after his disappearance.
Who paid the rent for 20 years?
How sad, but made his mark a real soldier every bodies hero!
Marvin Thiessen Maybe he owned it? Some people don’t rent, but buy.
Marvin Thiessen good question !
@@marvinthiessen3454 His Mum.
Thank you for sharing...Had no idea, Errol Flynn had a son, Sean Leslie Flynn, Photojournalist during the Vietnam era. That was such a terrible useless war...so many of our men went missing or died tragically!
+Iris Acheson Thanks for watching
Errol Flynn also had a daughter, Rory Flynn whose son, Sean Flynn (named after his Uncle Sean) is best known as Chase Matthews on the Nickelodeon classic "Zoey 101".
Iris Acheson yes, you are certainly unaware!!
Iris Acheson - All wars are terrible and useless.
Iris, if you were there back then, and visit today, there were many good remnants of the injection of American culture and capitalism. As to war, every single one reflects the flaws in human nature.
I never knew Sean but I did know his mother a bit. She never got over his loss. Very sad.
What's wrong with you..are some kind of dick or what...go take your meds creep...
@Sir Tristan freak
@Sir Tristan you're a troll, for sure.I probably shouldn't even dignify you by paying this much attention, but I'll say that he was there, and he served, and he made the ultimate sacrifice. if worthy people died beside him, what do you think he was doing there alongside them. so where are YOU coming from?
@@user-oi2yk9yi4y he's a pussy, not a dick.
Who was his mom?
Thank you for reminding us about Sean Flynn!
He was simply gorgeous and very brave.
He looked just like his father.
He looked just like his father.
Sean has a nephew that share his name, who once played in Zoey 101.
Till the day she died, his mother Lili, never gave up hope, she believe he will come back home to her, my heart goes out to his mother, even on her drying days, she still believe that Sean was still alive.
She can rest knowing what a hero he was. They will see each other on the other side.
Glad there's a fitting tribute too a lost friend of Tim page who spent the rest of his life trying too bring Sean home
La mère de Sean, Lili Damita actrice française, a tout fait pour retrouver son fils. On n'a jamais retrouve sa trace.
Rest in Peace... Sean & Errol Flynn !!!
@michael homenchuk And how the hell would you know arsehole.
Great tribute to Sean who had it all going for him. Gone too soon...
Beautiful man such a shame hes gone his father errol would have been so proud two lovely men gone too soon but not forgotten r i p 💙💙💙💙
He wanted to be where the action was. In 1970, the action had shifted to Cambodia. Sean and Dana Stone rode motorcycles to the fighting. At that time nobody realized how murderous the Khmer Rouge were.
Errol was my child hood idol.Now 68 and in Thailand. That day he dis-appeard 2 French journalists were returning from Cambodia, as it was too dangerous and warned warned Sean coming down the road on motorcycle. Sean died there. Lili spent her life hiring a detective at one point..trying to find him..
Sean and thousand of young men like him erased from the canvas of life because a crooked government lied and sent them off to another phoney war.
Do you see a pattern yet America?
@C J Bowen Actually the Us attacked on their own after lying to its people and as usual, using Russia as the great big ogre that threatened American Empire.
Reference " The Bay of Tonkin" incident and Daniel Ellsberg and the " Pentagon Papers".
Now that America is no more, the corporation that now reigns in its place is using the same old tactics to fool the rubes.
With great effect it seems.
@C J Bowen Dien Ben Phu.
The French had their asses handed back to them just as the U S did in '74.
Not bad for a " primitive " nation.
@C J Bowen The British didn't have air power and massive bombs .
@C J Bowen No comparison.
@C J Bowen You have no idea.
I just finished Michael Herr's Dispatches which provides very warm and charismatic impressions of Sean Flynn. RIP.
Read it years ago. Loaned it...Don't loan books, CD's, DVD's...
RIP TO A MAN WHO TRIED TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE! GOD GIVE YOU REST!
sigh...what a waste--gorgeous lookalike of his dad
Beautifully made. A tribute to yet another journalist lost to us at war.
Great tribute, thanks.
I hope he has already met his parents in Heaven.
I still have his bio from Parade Magazine......
It was almost as sad as when I was 9 years old and my brother came out to tell me that Robin Hood had died.
You have to have balls and dedication to be a war correspondent. Thank you Sean and to all war correspondents for sacrificingyour lives to bring us the truth.
Great photos! MIA to us Vietnam Veterans - 1968-1969 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment - Allons!
+Richard Gilpin Thanks for your comment! And Service.
+S. Palmer thank you
Yes very nice tribute to Sean...and thank YOU sir too for your service to our country!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@karenhill3970 I appreciate your thank you! We appreciated the journalists who went right out into the jungle with us!
Thank you for this tribute to Sean Flynn. I have always wondered about a closure for his MIA status. He could have had a comfortable good life but instead decided on a different path and destiny. Glad he hasn't been forgotten.
May all families with loved ones still missing, find a closure 🙏 REST IN PEACE, SEAN.
Omg he was just as fine and gorgeous as his father... I think he would have really made it big if still was alive. Poor guy RIP!
G-Nice does it make u big or lost ? Ambition at wot cost. The heart must b sure n strong . Mind well researched of the road ahead before rolling the 🎲 . ;-) frm a Londoner
There are many men lost. Its sad they can never come home.
Yes, so true.
Thank you for this moving tribute to Sean and to keep his memory alive. RIP sweet prince.
My God he's as Handsome as his father, and his nephew looked just like, a young Actor who carried his named with pride, thanks to his mother Rory, Sean's younger half-sister. The young Actor named Sean Flynn from Zoey 101. Errol Flynn's blood isn't over, he had four children and one grandchild, two of his children are dead on as I know of.
What a shame.
What a shame, such a beautiful man
R.I.P. A real man.
It's too bad that he disappeared. He was very handsome.
He was even more handsome than his father...about bravery what's remain to say...a hero ! Beautiful inside and outside...
beautiful video.
So tragic, I'm 28, I couldn't imagine how it would feel never to contact any member of my family again.
.You are 38 now and I hope life has been kind to you
HANDSOME/JUST LIKE HIS FATHER..GONE WAY TO SOON...VERY GUTSY WHAT HE WAS DOING..OVER THERE..BRAVE YNG. MAN.
He was handsome as his Father. RIP 💙🙏☮💜✝️
Sean appears in Michael Herr's book, Dispatches, a marvelous book about Herr's time in Vietnam. Kind of a classic.
I saw an article in people magazine a few years ago featuring Old Hollywood stars children and grandchildren. The grandson of Errol Flynn was featured. His name is Luke Flynn and looks just like Sean and Errol Flynn. Just gorgeous. He is in a movie with the words Dream weaver in the title. Very cute highlighted blonde like Paul Walker.
I wonder how many people are going to say he looked just like his father? The only thing Sean inherited from his dad was the cleft chin. He favors his mom more.
holy smokes he was handsome....tragic passing tho.....bet his mom was lost after that...sad.
I served with the 101st airborne Was The disappearance of Sean Flynn in Cambodia . A few months later Richard Nixon sent 101st airborne it to Cambodia 1970 same time Sean Flynn was found missing
Sad all the way around. Nixon trying tko butn Cambodia to the ground in his secret war. Another out of control President and another war wr shouldn't have been in. Too many lives lost on both sides. So much pain, this is 2020 and I still cry for friends lost and harmed by stupid political wars!
Sara Rastikhah Yeah, cause Cambodia was such a den of peace & enlightenment that they killed 25% of their population in a horrible, racist scourging. But they’re a sovereign country, let’s just let em kill & torture to their hearts content...🤦♂️
You cannot follow men
Or women, whose destiny
Was preordained for immortality.
Really did look like his dad.
He most definitely looked like his dad.
'Inherited Risk' by Jeffrey Meyers covers the lives of both Errol and Sean. A good read.
Errol Flynn died in the late 50s of a heart attack. It's sad that he never knew his son as an adult.
@Richard Carpenter
Thanks for letting me know, so he did see his adult son. That's good.
Maybe he had a little bit of his father's personality in him.
Tim page lost his brother spent the rest of his life trying to find the truth MIA RIP
Just found this article. Sorry for his loss to the world. His Father was also an adventurous person.
GORGEOUS man, well just look at his dad. Both brave men, who pursued what was in their hearts, no matter what anyone said or thought. Hope you're ok together. Sleep tight sweeties. P,S. I am related to them , distantly. We share the same name.xxxx
THEY HAD NO RIGHT TO KILL HIM ALL HE WAS DOING WAS TAKEING PICTURES JUST DOING HIS JOB VERY SAD
Wow at 0:48 you can see that Flynn profile in Sean. He had his father's genes all right.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more beautiful human as he
While trying to escape his Dad's HUGE shadow, Sean lost his life ...
Gee he was so handsome
God bless Sean and God bless your Dad.
Honestly I think Sean was a better looking man than Errol
Sean made a few films that were very well received in Europe, but, if one reads the excellent book by Jeffrey Myers,'Inherited Risk' then one will understand that the seed of adventure is passed from father to son, as I can testify...
50yrs later and he could be a young man walking down the street today such was his modern good looks .He died chasing his dreams
I read some where that before he drove of on his bike that he was told not to go in that direction but he did`nt take any notice and was never seen again ?.... is this true.
Yes. Unfortunately, for him and the other guy.
Very impressive young man. Loss of these young men was terrible for the U.S. It needs to stop. Wasn't this a french territory? What is going on with these OUTRAGEOUS wars, where America loses its best sons and daughters. End it now.
The family pretty knows how it went down in the end. He was in Cambodian prison camp, the spoke of tall white man. He contracted severe malaria and was forced to dig his own grave. Camera bought by British guy I seized, his supposed remains flown to Hawaii. Was not him. I was there.
Thank you Mikey for sharing that & doing what you did.. It was a strange time in history that's hard to describe to people.. It was a gruesome time that affected us all in some way. Errol wanted so much to be a war correspondent. I imagine his son Sean admired his Da and wanted to follow in his fathers steps in his own way. It's heartbreaking our vets were only recently given any recognition of our pride and admiration for doing what our country asked of them. Sadly our brothers and friends were treated badly if they made it home alive. Some were never the same & not treated like the hero's they were for doing what the country asked of them as in other wars.. Almost every home had a star in the window where we lived, historically showing a loved one from the home was serving our country. The only steady diet was horrible TV reports, race riots & war protests. I spent a night the winter after my brother passed away going through his huge duffel bag full of cards and letters from all the family, neighbors and friends. Remembering that horrible time & years lost. Out of love and respect I needed to burn them in my fireplace as I would want someone to do for me. We can never repay our debt to those involved in that "police action". We can only learn from mistakes, try to educate people and support those who are home with us. God Bless you for going out of your way to try to bring some peace and closure to a family.
mikey corda you have remember alot of the mentally ill Vietnam vets who went to Cambodian raped there women and murdered them, murdered and tortured families and killed children, killed there men for fun and for bordom would purposely killed innocent Cambodian civilian people, America sent alot vile criminals to fight, alot poor women were raped beaten and murdered, and children were killed, and it was documented so we were not pure. the media and news back then constantly talked about the cruelty of our own American soldiers. They would take there anger on innocent families and women...even men in Cambodian. But we did have extraordinary brave men who did do a brave thinks and fought hard and did a amazing job at helping and saving the innocent people there. And came home to disrespect over a few bad apples who did this atrocities. because they did come home traumatized and never the same again. But you have to remember why people didnt open there arm for them...The American people were aware of the evil, wicked, cruelty, murders, torture, rape of children and women, and yes even men were raped...America knew about these atrocities.
June giovani
Well aren't you a veritable font of information and there just always has to be one like you on every board. That person that seems to think you have a duty to lecture everyone with justifications for the brutalization or murder of Americans because of the wrong things others may have done, but the fact is Sean Flynn didn't do any of those things and the people that killed him knew he wasn't a combatant . Maybe you should look up the name of the Cambodian dictator Pol Pot so you can make excuses for the millions of his own people who were raped and then slaughtered in his killing fields by the Khmer Rouge carrying out his policy of genocide to accomplish ethic cleansing and find a way to blame that on American Vets too.
News Flash no one has to remember anything because you tell them to, they haven't forgotten it in the first place and you're not educating anyone either,. Although I'm sure you think you have some superior insight to impart that none of the rest of us has ever learned for themselves. Parroting what you've gotten from indoctrination by some radical anti war protester turned college professor will only impress those who've come by their opinions in the same way you have. Perhaps YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER some of us have first hand knowledge because we lived through it or had family that did and find those like YOU and the people who have spoon fed your opinions to you beyond insulting and offensive.
However, this video wasn't about anyone claiming to be pure it was about lamenting the tragic loss of life of a young man that wasn't a soldier he was a photo journalist. So FFS stop telling people what they have to remember, the question is DO YOU REMEMBER because I'm sure a hell of a lot of people do and here is NO excuse you can make for the way Americans treated the returning vets the people that didn't welcome them home were people just like YOU.
- Wonder if the CIA was behind Sean's demise and death?
@@junegiovanni6475you drone on and on, as if that was typical of American soldiers. Where do you get your opinions from?
This is so sad 😞
Recently watched Last of Robin Hood about Errol Flynn’s last days with Kevin Kline as Flynn lookalike!
He was reckless and brave, just like his father. But Vietnam was way too dangerous a country to be reckless in, as any veteran can explain.
WOW! Gorgeous....
beautiful son!!
So very sad how someone can take another person's life, that music to the video is so depressing, may Sean Leslie Flynn soul rip.
Damn he was handsome
He sure looked good with his shirt off
Mitch G,You as well!
un hombre muy guapo que me impactó siendo casi una niña con su pelicula el hijo del capitán blood, lastima que desapareciera de esa manera tan tragica, una perdida para todos !
This stirred my soul to no end!!
Knew him
Like she had done for Errol in acting. Lilly Damita lobbied for her son to have a successful career as a photo-journalist. She could not control his risk taking nature. No doubt inherited from his father.
Very cool tribute to a natural warrior
No no one knows, they recently thought they had found him but the testing proved it was not him.
Jamás hubo ni habrá un actor con tanto encanto y personalidad
I feel so sorry for his mother, her only child😢😢😢❤❤❤
Thank you for sharing , very sad.
Herr's book 'Dispatches' is easily one of the most compelling accounts of the conflict in Vietnam.
What a handsome young man, just like his dad. MIA in that stupid war. RIP Sean.
Wish there was more on him and his disappearance..
What a waste of a war that f@cking Vietnam was...so many wonderful lives cut short and shattered...one more reason to never let it happen again! Rest in peace Sean & Errol Flynn.
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SOUL X
Thank-you.
It was very nice not hearing any narrative.
i wonder if its posible hes still alive
Wouldn't that be so WONDERFUL
I was in Cambodia may 1970.. Mr. Flynn disappeared in April. He was not in the military but was a freelance photographer covering the war. He went missing when he and another person went riding a motorcycle into Cambodia. So, with all respect and condolences, he is not Missing inAction but simply missing
Dana Stone. I understand your opinion that he was non-combatant.But the VC thought he may be a spy and his name is on the Wall in Washington as a MIA
@ccipollini1984 Yeah, I just posted tons of stuff about him on my Facebook page. so sad to die so young. so unfair.
Wow the likeness to his Father is astonishing .
Ugh..so sad...and so good looking...guess tragedy continued to follow. I'm sure Hollywood would have loved him.
My husband escaped genocide in Cambodia.....unfortunately many did not......very sad
I've seen descriptions of him having hazel eyes but every picture I've see of him, they are distinctly dark brown.
uwielbiałam jego ojca ale szkoda mi też Syna był taki młody są w mojej pamięci niech Bóg ma ich w opiece 🇵🇱♥️
A true swashbuckler like his father. Sad that his remains cannot be repatriated with his mother and that his bones will forever be lost to silent earth of Cambodia. But the spirit lives on ☘☘☘
I don't think he looks like his father at all but he was gorgeous. What a tragedy.
I'd say Sean was combination of his dad and mom. He had his mother's mouth. Otherwise, he was extremely handsome.
So sad; I have never seen photos of Sean Flynn before but had read about him in My Wicked Wicked Ways, Errol Flynn's autobiography. What a tragic loss, just as well his father never knew. I remember it was big news when it happened Errol of course been an Aussie it made big news here in Australia. I took notice as we all loved his Dad's movies!!
He lived a life less ordinary too! A handsome Son to a handsome Father.
Who didn't even live to see his 30th birthday
Thanks for watching
He had a lot from father....i loved him in Son of captain Blood...he just lost his life somewhere...never found....what a pity....was promising to reach the father....Rip...i think he died in Kambodia...from Red Kmers.....
I adored him in Son of Captain Blood and Robin Hood. Sean surpassed his dad Errol in looks too. Taken too young. Reunited with his parents now.
He was trying to do something positive for our country and voluntarily put himself in harms way....he lost. No trace was ever found of him.
No doubt he was brave, but if you asked him if it was for our country, he would have laughed in your face. For Sean Flynn, it was something else.
Flew too close to the fire.....there's some additional info about him in the incredible book about the Vietnam War, titled Passages.