No matter what he was like off stage. He was an6still is the best action movie star that has ever graced Hollywood. When I was a child his movies inspired me .
We mere mortals remember him, we internet posters, yet we have done nothing , we post and postulate, we judge and disseminate, we probe and delve, I myself first encountered Flynn in 1957, via his autobiography, [ghost written by Earl Conrad], I was enchanted, from that moment on, [I am now 76 years old] I have been enchanted by Errol Flynn...
When I was young in the mid eighties, I used to play on a boat called Tonga , jumping off it and climbing up its sides and I learned that it happened to be previously owned by Mr. Flynn . It was a beautiful sail boat , lots of teak and copper and brass , gorgeous boat. It burned to the water in the late eighties
As Frank Sinatra boldly said in his song, "I lived it my way". Errol Flynn will always be the one and only "in like Flynn". He was many personalities living in one man and a complex one with many faceted sides, perhaps his upbringing played a huge part in his character. Flynn was a known rebel from an early age, and it came across the screen beautifully and also in real life full color cinema. Now a days, you mention Errol Flynn and most people will know you are talking about "in like Flynn".
At the funeral there is a quick glimpse of his son Sean, the photojournalist, who disappeared in Cambodia 🇰🇭 on the 6th April 1970 during the Vietnam 🇻🇳 war
No matter what many who have negative thoughts about this Tasmanian born Australian Hollywood actor Errol Flynn he was human after all. An adventurer and a sea going man Errol Flynn was self destructive.Drank a lot,smoked incessantly and a frequent user of drugs and not to mention his womanizing it was surprising that Errol Flynn lasted that long. When his friend David Niven met him in 1958 in London he was a pale shadow of himself no longer the Errol Flynn of the pre war days.Niven in fact was shocked by the physical appearance of his Errol."He had done great damage to his health and his face looked puffy." And after that last minute with Niven,Errol Flynn's health worsened and on 14 October 1959 he succumed to a fatal heart attack dying at the age of fifty. Yes,Errol like Tyrone Power,James Dean and Mario Lanza really belonged to the 1950s.They would not have fitted with the 1960s.
Hello! He visited couple or three times during 1949/1951(?) always had good "friends members" our VEDADO TENNIS CLUB, Habana, Cuba. ..always remember "Errol Flynn in our BAR (Sundays Lunch) yes! a wonderful man, gracious and GREAT! See Ya! Charlie G./ Miami Fla
He is one of my all-time fav's. Actually, he wanted to be a well respected actor and worked hard at it. After the swashbuckling films, it was hard to shake that image. Men would pick fights in bars with 'Robin Hood' to prove their manhood and women threw themselves at him constantly. He said that if this is what they think I am and won't let me be anything else, then I will be what they think. He was a very deep person, and a real intellectual who did more in his life than many people's lives thrown together. He was a champion equestrian and tennis player. He loved animals and introduced the Ridgeback dog to N. America. He wrote several books as well. Truly an amazing life brought down by neglect as a child and unrealized dreams. He got onto drugs because of his back, and, he had a heart condition all of which doctors plied him with drugs. Very sad actually.
Very good insight ! He was a shooting star that burned bright . They don't maje movies or have actors as Olivia DeHaviland or Errol Flynn anymore . Classic Hollywood waa great .
@@martinhanley9524 The greatest generation and golden Hollywood grew up together. There could never be another golden HOLLYWOOD,BECAUSE it was a unique Era in history of the early 20th century,the events of that age are legendary, The great depression, world War 11, it is an age that still fascinate historians..
@@wendellthomas179 Agreed The culture today and its reflection in stories, the lack of respect for the heroic figures and the struggles has left a dystopian world that Hollywood has embraced to its own disadvantage and as a result I don't watch the news or most movies today in general because they don't move me . They aren't in the category of John Ford , Frank Capra, David Lean , Raul Walsh George Stevens etc. I feel sorry for the kids today who have poor role models portrayed to give them an uplifting story with great actors . Too bad . May occur again but not till their is a flood that wipes away the cultural garbage that poses as art now ! I'm hopeful but as Scorsese portrayed in his recent movie . I'm in 'Silence' !
He was a product of his times, and it cost him his physical health and death at an early age. In those days smoking several packs of cigarettes a day, and/or drinking a bottle of scotch or vodka or whatever----- were seen as manly attributes. Look at all the stars who paid a heavy price, from Bogart to John Wayne to Errol Flynn. That's only the famous people we know about. Heavy drinking and heavy smoking was proof you were a tough guy and a real man.
It wasn't just proving you were a tough man, it was the culture from the 20s to 60s. Hell, even the women stars smoked like men or more than some men. Look at Bette Davis...smoking 3 packs a day. Everyone smoked like chimneys and also many drank a lot...often combining the two.
As a child We were all told.at that time that cigarettes were safe to smoke and didn't cause cancer.Does anyone remember the Marlboro Man? And every adult seemed to drink a bit. Errol Flynn was no different than almost any Man from that time period. And yes it's sad to say this but at that time women were seen mostly for their beauty and not there intelligence and were not always treated with the respect they deserved. It was really just a Mans World at that time . Errol Flynn was born into it.
@@jamestoops7228 Errol had the Madonna/whore mindset about women, I think. It was partly the times, but also related to his toxic relationship with his mother. He did get addicted to morphine, which was not common at the time.
The most charismatic, most handsome male actor of all time-and a very underrated talent. The only female actress that was a match in looks was Elizabeth Taylor. No actor today is his equal.
Errol Flynn would have been perfect casting to play Hemingway himself, in a biopic: the same larger than life alpha adventurer male with idealistic humanist aspirations and literary talent; the same love of the sea, seafaring, wine, women and key friends; and ultimately the same early deep wounded inner vulnerability he had to masque with macho bravado, and same suicidal ideation imagery.
I have thought this myself many times. Very similar types of guys, you hit the nail on the head in all the ways, down to the suicidal ideation. However, I have no doubt that Errol envied Hemingway.
People died much younger back then. And of course the lifestyles a lot of these Hollywood men lived were not conducive to longevity. Flynn was hardly alone as a womanizing alcoholic drug addict. And famous actresses too lived (and died) the life. Look at Tallulah Bankhead.
I give my thanks to the individual for providing time to share the documentary. My awareness of Mr. Flynn began when Rick Nelson's children discussed of Flynn's former residence being haunted which then made me hesitant to learn about the individual. Reading portions of articles, newspaper articles and various information does help verify what Tracy Nelson and her brothers witnessed in Mr. Flynn's house. From his biography, I do sympathize with Mr. Flynn of the felt trauma from being abused by his mother, his wariness (or fear) to trust women, his disdain toward his face (Flynn said in his book he questioned would women like him if he was deemed unattractive), searching to learn more of who he is, wanting to feel love from his parents and how life changed for him after the trial, but that *does not* excuse the many wrongs he has done. After reading of what Flynn has done to Beverly, his wives and what Ms. Nora shared in her biography, I am curious why do people admire Mr. Flynn.
Are we more interested in his acting talent, or his character? Seducing underaged girls presents problem. He himself said that he lusted after "young things." If you had a 15 yr old daughter, how would you feel about her being seduced by a artistically talented man 48 yrs old? By law, he would go to jail, and the courts would not be focused on his movies credits.
T H You should know she also admitted her personal dislike of his lack of discipline led her to disparage his acting ability, but in retrospect she said after watching more of his films in later years she had to admit he was a far better actor than she'd let herself believe. There are various taped interviews where she says this.
The biography failed to mention that in 1958 Flynn made a trip to the island of Cuba and met with the leader of the Cuban revolution (Fidel Castro). Flynn stayed with Castro until he overthrew the island's dictator (Fulgencio Batista) and a few month's later Erroll Flynn passed away.
Wasn't he acting as a reporter reporting on the situation in Cuba. There are his own reports available as documented film evidence. Communism was a news item in the 1950s.
That's incredible. My 2 idols were Jim Morrison and Errol Flynn. I have read and seen everything that each has done. I am 66 yrs old and now in Bangkok. "In like Flynn!" Remember that old saying?
He ran away from home for the last time when he was 15 or 16, and he never stopped running. He lived like a man shot out of a cannon. None of it was glamorous, and at times during his life he was quite ugly and out of control. When he loved, I mean really loved, he loved very deeply. He did everything to extremes. But the one constant in his life was that he was always running, running away. And he lived his life like a man shot out of a cannon. Read his book, and his second wife's book, and his daughter's book.
agree have read virtually every book on him a lot of his issues were thanks to his others treatment. he also trusted some people too much. I liked him.
Lately I find that if I think of him as a 16 year old, it's easier to, well, process in my mind the things he did. Thinking of him as a 16 year old helps solve a big part of the puzzle. For instance, he instantly hit it off with his friend Hermann. Hermann was a big brother, father figure, and like minded buddy, all rolled into one - perfect for a lonely desperate 16 year old runaway like Errol.
@@ATINKERER Unfortunately Hermann was a nazi and all the pictures he took during the Spanish civil war of the Germans fighting against Franco were give to the gestapo and the those people were hunted down when they went back to Germany.
@@nenabunena I don't know about a Pdf, but there is a book called Errol and me as told by Nora Eddington to CY Rice. It's long out of print, but you can find a copy for sale ,as I did, on the web. Good luck!
Flynn had more charm, personality and personal magnetism than all of current Hollywood combined. I think he was just disappointed with the world - too slow, too boring and too petty.
Mike Roberts From SE ASIA : ERROL FLYNN WAS ONE OF A KIND! HIS MOVIES WERE WONDERFUL I HAVE MANY OF HIS MOVIES TO ENJOY HERE IN ASIA! HE HAS NO EQUAL! MARCUS SINGAPORE 🇸 n PHILIPPINES 🇵🇭 🇬
Errol had the devil in him, that's for sure. but a lot of people (not only celebrities) have a destructive side and they just cant control it. He wanted to try everything, but once hed tasted it got the like for it a little too much. He acknowledged in his book that the drink had gotten the better of him. but people who drink too much and take far too many drugs are doing it (in my opinion) to hide their inner turmoil and pain...and feel this is true for errol.
Oh yes, I agree. It's all self-medication. Happy people don't drink glass after glass of "fire water" until they're stupid drunk, or pass out. Happy people don't stick needles in their arms.
His first wife once said, "I loved him anyway and he was, as everyone suspected, an endearing rascal." I would repeat the same thing--I love him anyway... And everybody agreed during his life time that was just so likable, including his Warner Brothers bosses, his third wife, and his friends. So who cares if any documentary wants to tilt toward negativity.
+Fan Mac : I agree. One thing is for certain.... the people who knew him best (former wives, close friends like David Niven, etc) spoke highly of him after his death. That's the most reliable barometer we have to measure a person's worth as a human being.
Helenaville, An other actor's evaluation of a criminals worth is not an accurate barometer if the truth is omitted in favor of fiction, fantasy and Holywood.
Eroll flynn is a legend until today no want can get closed to him He is a real swashbuckling actor as a fan we don't want to know his personal life flynn is the only actor from nobody to somebody
As "Australian" (like "American") labels mainly one's now and historically recent nationality, Errol Flynn was well within his rights--and like his zoologist father taxonomically correct--to acknowledge, lay claim to his more distant Irish ancestry that begat his surname "Flynn." And his trademark brave, boldly individualistic and rebellious, feistily adventurous spirit and love of wild, free nature and poetic declamation certainly were Celtic.
Oh come on get with it. Statutory rape means they were younger than 18 the age of majority and consent. Otherwise known as sex with a minor. And like mentioned in other interviews, young women were throwing themselves at him.
Oh yes, I agree. But there isn't much to question here because he describes that same kind of scene in his book MWWW. The incident I'm thinking about is after the trial (or maybe it was during, or both) when he's sitting on the bed with a revolver in his mouth. Yes, very sad.
+coeenc123 Know I am one of Errol Flynn's biggest fan's. I'm so proud to say that he is a Australian !!!! His father in his younger yrs himself was a secondary school teacher in the area I come from in NSW !!!! I know a lot about Errol 👍👍👍
@@ATINKERER And he did it several nights in a row, but he also admits to feeling suicidal right before going off to the Spanish Civil War in the later 30s
HEY ERROL. FLYING TRAP. YOU BIG GUY. YOU YOU. I WISH I COULD FALL AWAY. THANKS FOR ALL YOUR LOVE AND BEST KEPT SECRET. YOU REALLY WISH THIS WASN'T YOU. YOU WEREN'T OTHERS AND VICE AND FOR VERSA. LOVE YOU BIG GUY WITH ALL THE TEARS I COULD COME UP WITH. LOVE YOU ALWAYS. GOOD RHINO SHOW. DON'T BEAT MR TALL ROBINHOOD. YOU WILL MAYBE LATER.
Great a total handsome great actor felt he had to prove That he was more man than most. Beautiful ladys all over Hollywood Studios. And he had to concoure little girls deasperate to please any man.Any. mam they thought could have feathered. Her acting career along. These teens knew exactly what they were doing.when they saw that sex wasn't gonna make any difference. They cried to ma and Pa pa
i agree, but Errol did have a very dark side to his nature. People criticized him in life and death. I don't think he actually liked women thanks to the treatment he got from his mother and 1st wife. And in the rape trials he had a plane on standby to get out of the US quickly. I do think he was a set up though. Never the less I did like him very much....his best friend was Ida Lapino.
Well he wasn't under the influence of morphine if he allegedly attacked this woman with sex on his mind. Any doctor will tell you that morphine kills the sex drive at the time as killing the pain. One of it's side effects which I can confirm.
Hi Wobble, I couldn't agree with you more. In addition to what you wrote, the fact that his first wife was a violent, sadistic, paranoid, mad woman, who attacked him with any weapon that was handy, didn't help matters any. But you're right I think, the course was set in his youth, by the age of 16. If he hadn't become a movie star he still would have driven himself to an early grave, because of his childhood. Only he would have died in obscurity.
I think he must have had some undiagnosed personalty disorder(s), or ADD at minimum, based on his childhood inability to focus in school, and his constant restlessness, despite his great intelligence. (He later educated himself by reading voraciously.) It appears he might have had some anxiety disorder too, based on anecdotal evidence in his autobiography and elsewhere.
While this may be accurate, it's still tabloid trash. On a movie set some thirty-five years ago, during breaks, I met and spoke with one of Errol's sons. More than once, he brought his father up very matter-of-factly, and it was obvious that he thought very well of him. So I guess this presentation is far from the whole story.
@@johnhardman3 There was another guy who claimed to be his illegitimate son in the movie business at that time, but I doubt he'd have ever known Flynn even if true. Flynn himself alluded to the fact that he might have other kids out there he didn't know about in his autobiography.
What evidence? or just gossip.? apparently all the stars were bisexuality weren't they? you have to make your own mind up. certain authors of books on Hollywood are just crap stirrers with no referencing at all where their material comes from.
No matter what he was like off stage. He was an6still is the best action movie star that has ever graced Hollywood. When I was a child his movies inspired me .
great acting in The Sun Also Rises , he most certainly deserved the Academy Award , for his portrayal of Mike Campbell . Excellant work .
We mere mortals remember him, we internet posters, yet we have done nothing , we post and postulate, we judge and disseminate, we probe and delve, I myself first encountered Flynn in 1957, via his autobiography, [ghost written by Earl Conrad], I was enchanted, from that moment on, [I am now 76 years old] I have been enchanted by Errol Flynn...
Flynn's book came out in '59, after his death.
He was such a physically beautiful specimen before he destroyed himself. Alcohol, IMO, is the worst substance to abuse.
Brilliant in sun also rises! Sad character! I cry.😥
When I was young in the mid eighties, I used to play on a boat called Tonga , jumping off it and climbing up its sides and I learned that it happened to be previously owned by Mr. Flynn . It was a beautiful sail boat , lots of teak and copper and brass , gorgeous boat. It burned to the water in the late eighties
Is that the boat where he raped another young girl?
As Frank Sinatra boldly said in his song, "I lived it my way". Errol Flynn will always be the one and only "in like Flynn". He was many personalities living in one man and a complex one with many faceted sides, perhaps his upbringing played a huge part in his character. Flynn was a known rebel from an early age, and it came across the screen beautifully and also in real life full color cinema. Now a days, you mention Errol Flynn and most people will know you are talking about "in like Flynn".
At the funeral there is a quick glimpse of his son Sean, the photojournalist, who disappeared in Cambodia 🇰🇭 on the 6th April 1970 during the Vietnam 🇻🇳 war
For all his faults, he was a larger than life figure. He is remembered more for his acting ability and presence on the silver screen!!!
And that is the pity of the cult of personality!!!
No matter what many who have negative thoughts about this Tasmanian born Australian Hollywood actor Errol Flynn he was human after all.
An adventurer and a sea going man Errol Flynn was self destructive.Drank a lot,smoked incessantly and a frequent user of drugs and not to mention his womanizing it was surprising that Errol Flynn lasted that long.
When his friend David Niven met him in 1958 in London he was a pale shadow of himself no longer the Errol Flynn of the pre war days.Niven in fact was shocked by the physical appearance of his Errol."He had done great damage to his health and his face looked puffy."
And after that last minute with Niven,Errol Flynn's health worsened and on 14 October 1959 he succumed to a fatal heart attack dying at the age of fifty.
Yes,Errol like Tyrone Power,James Dean and Mario Lanza really belonged to the 1950s.They would not have fitted with the 1960s.
Hello! He visited couple or three times during 1949/1951(?) always had good "friends members" our VEDADO TENNIS CLUB, Habana, Cuba. ..always remember "Errol Flynn in our BAR (Sundays Lunch) yes! a wonderful man, gracious and GREAT!
See Ya! Charlie G./ Miami Fla
He is one of my all-time fav's. Actually, he wanted to be a well respected actor and worked hard at it. After the swashbuckling films, it was hard to shake that image. Men would pick fights in bars with 'Robin Hood' to prove their manhood and women threw themselves at him constantly. He said that if this is what they think I am and won't let me be anything else, then I will be what they think. He was a very deep person, and a real intellectual who did more in his life than many people's lives thrown together. He was a champion equestrian and tennis player. He loved animals and introduced the Ridgeback dog to N. America. He wrote several books as well. Truly an amazing life brought down by neglect as a child and unrealized dreams. He got onto drugs because of his back, and, he had a heart condition all of which doctors plied him with drugs. Very sad actually.
The real Swashbuckler....Great !
Very good insight ! He was a shooting star that burned bright . They don't maje movies or have actors as Olivia DeHaviland or Errol Flynn anymore . Classic Hollywood waa great .
@@martinhanley9524 The greatest generation and golden Hollywood grew up together.
There could never be another golden HOLLYWOOD,BECAUSE it was a unique Era in history of the early 20th century,the events of that age are legendary, The great depression, world War 11, it is an age that still fascinate historians..
@@wendellthomas179
Agreed
The culture today and its reflection in stories, the lack of respect for the heroic figures and the struggles has left a dystopian world that Hollywood has embraced to its own disadvantage and as a result I don't watch the news or most movies today in general because they don't move me .
They aren't in the category of John Ford , Frank Capra, David Lean , Raul Walsh George Stevens etc. I feel sorry for the kids today who have poor role models portrayed to give them an uplifting story with great actors . Too bad . May occur again but not till their is a flood that wipes away the cultural garbage that poses as art now !
I'm hopeful but as Scorsese portrayed in his recent movie . I'm in 'Silence' !
He was a product of his times, and it cost him his physical health and death at an early age. In those days smoking several packs of cigarettes a day, and/or drinking a bottle of scotch or vodka or whatever----- were seen as manly attributes. Look at all the stars who paid a heavy price, from Bogart to John Wayne to Errol Flynn. That's only the famous people we know about. Heavy drinking and heavy smoking was proof you were a tough guy and a real man.
Joe Palooka , very true. He knew he wasn’t going to live a long life.
It wasn't just proving you were a tough man, it was the culture from the 20s to 60s. Hell, even the women stars smoked like men or more than some men. Look at Bette Davis...smoking 3 packs a day. Everyone smoked like chimneys and also many drank a lot...often combining the two.
As a child We were all told.at that time that cigarettes were safe to smoke and didn't cause cancer.Does anyone remember the Marlboro Man? And every adult seemed to drink a bit. Errol Flynn was no different than almost any Man from that time period. And yes it's sad to say this but at that time women were seen mostly for their beauty and not there intelligence and were not always treated with the respect they deserved. It was really just a Mans World at that time . Errol Flynn was born into it.
Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, and Gary Cooper all died relatively young too. Most heavy drinkers and smokers.
@@jamestoops7228 Errol had the Madonna/whore mindset about women, I think. It was partly the times, but also related to his toxic relationship with his mother. He did get addicted to morphine, which was not common at the time.
He is a distant relative of mine. We share the same name. And like Errol, i am NOT ashamed of my Irish blood !!!!
Sad story. Enjoyed his movies
''The wages of sin is death.'' That is Errol Flynn's legacy.
No Grave Marker, until 1983, when the Daughters, sued the Mother, to get a Grave Marker.
The most charismatic, most handsome male actor of all time-and a very underrated talent. The only female actress that was a match in looks was Elizabeth Taylor. No actor today is his equal.
był jedynym i na zawsze aż do grobu moim idolem Alawiu Errol Flynn 🇵🇱♥️♥️♥️
Errol Flynn would have been perfect casting to play Hemingway himself, in a biopic: the same larger than life alpha adventurer male with idealistic humanist aspirations and literary talent; the same love of the sea, seafaring, wine, women and key friends; and ultimately the same early deep wounded inner vulnerability he had to masque with macho bravado, and same suicidal ideation imagery.
I agree. His performance in The Sun Also Rises, is testament to that. He'd have been the actor to do such a bio..
I have thought this myself many times. Very similar types of guys, you hit the nail on the head in all the ways, down to the suicidal ideation. However, I have no doubt that Errol envied Hemingway.
And Tyrone Power dies the next year (58) at 44 of a heart attack.
People died much younger back then. And of course the lifestyles a lot of these Hollywood men lived were not conducive to longevity. Flynn was hardly alone as a womanizing alcoholic drug addict. And famous actresses too lived (and died) the life. Look at Tallulah Bankhead.
Tyrone Power died in 1958 and Errol Flynn died 11 months later in October 1959.
I give my thanks to the individual for providing time to share the documentary. My awareness of Mr. Flynn began when Rick Nelson's children discussed of Flynn's former residence being haunted which then made me hesitant to learn about the individual. Reading portions of articles, newspaper articles and various information does help verify what Tracy Nelson and her brothers witnessed in Mr. Flynn's house. From his biography, I do sympathize with Mr. Flynn of the felt trauma from being abused by his mother, his wariness (or fear) to trust women, his disdain toward his face (Flynn said in his book he questioned would women like him if he was deemed unattractive), searching to learn more of who he is, wanting to feel love from his parents and how life changed for him after the trial, but that *does not* excuse the many wrongs he has done. After reading of what Flynn has done to Beverly, his wives and what Ms. Nora shared in her biography, I am curious why do people admire Mr. Flynn.
And I love him for what he did for the horse
When she started talking I immediately thought of the book Lolita...
Watch Elisabeth and Essex and you should be convinced of his talent!!!!
Are we more interested in his acting talent, or his character? Seducing
underaged girls presents problem. He himself said that he lusted after "young
things." If you had a 15 yr old daughter, how would you feel about her
being seduced by a artistically talented man 48 yrs old? By law, he would
go to jail, and the courts would not be focused on his movies credits.
It's interesting that Bette Davis always said how he couldn't act, and was quite open about it.
T H You should know she also admitted her personal dislike of his lack of discipline led her to disparage his acting ability, but in retrospect she said after watching more of his films in later years she had to admit he was a far better actor than she'd let herself believe. There are various taped interviews where she says this.
100% great movie
Mi sarebbe piaciuto avere conosciuto Errol e che fosse vissuto di piu di solo 50 anni avrebbe fatto altri film
The biography failed to mention that in 1958 Flynn made a trip to the island of Cuba and met with the leader of the Cuban revolution (Fidel Castro). Flynn stayed with Castro until he overthrew the island's dictator (Fulgencio Batista) and a few month's later Erroll Flynn passed away.
Wasn't he acting as a reporter reporting on the situation in Cuba. There are his own reports available as documented film evidence. Communism was a news item in the 1950s.
@@MikeGreenwood51 he made a d plus movie. It's on yt but its terrible
Maggie May,
Thank you. I think I likely saw it, if it was his documentary about his reporting about cuba. TY.
@@maggiemae7749 yea it is
Errol Flynn makes Jim Morrison look like an angelic schoolboy
That's being a little simplistic.
That's incredible. My 2 idols were Jim Morrison and Errol Flynn. I have read and seen everything that each has done. I am 66 yrs old and now in Bangkok. "In like Flynn!" Remember that old saying?
@@errolflynn2626 in like flynn with thai ladyboys?
Proper hero-proper life
He ran away from home for the last time when he was 15 or 16, and he never stopped running. He lived like a man shot out of a cannon. None of it was glamorous, and at times during his life he was quite ugly and out of control. When he loved, I mean really loved, he loved very deeply. He did everything to extremes. But the one constant in his life was that he was always running, running away. And he lived his life like a man shot out of a cannon. Read his book, and his second wife's book, and his daughter's book.
agree have read virtually every book on him a lot of his issues were thanks to his others treatment. he also trusted some people too much. I liked him.
Lately I find that if I think of him as a 16 year old, it's easier to, well, process in my mind the things he did. Thinking of him as a 16 year old helps solve a big part of the puzzle. For instance, he instantly hit it off with his friend Hermann. Hermann was a big brother, father figure, and like minded buddy, all rolled into one - perfect for a lonely desperate 16 year old runaway like Errol.
@@ATINKERER Unfortunately Hermann was a nazi and all the pictures he took during the Spanish civil war of the Germans fighting against Franco were give to the gestapo and the those people were hunted down when they went back to Germany.
Is there a pdf of his 2nd wife's book?
@@nenabunena I don't know about a Pdf, but there is a book called Errol and me as told by Nora Eddington to CY Rice. It's long out of print, but you can find a copy for sale ,as I did, on the web. Good luck!
What a dude....
Flynn had more charm, personality and personal magnetism than all of current Hollywood combined. I think he was just disappointed with the world - too slow, too boring and too petty.
Mike Roberts From SE ASIA : ERROL FLYNN WAS ONE OF A KIND! HIS MOVIES WERE WONDERFUL I HAVE MANY OF HIS MOVIES TO ENJOY HERE IN ASIA! HE HAS NO EQUAL! MARCUS SINGAPORE 🇸 n PHILIPPINES 🇵🇭 🇬
Stupid assumption based on your own issues.
Absolutely nailed it there .Excellent comment.There's a bit of Errol Flynn in all of us, only he MORE of it.
@@MikeGreenwood51 he died with 6 STDs
@@maggiemae7749 Could well be. I read he had at least two.
Errol had the devil in him, that's for sure. but a lot of people (not only celebrities) have a destructive side and they just cant control it. He wanted to try everything, but once hed tasted it got the like for it a little too much. He acknowledged in his book that the drink had gotten the better of him. but people who drink too much and take far too many drugs are doing it (in my opinion) to hide their inner turmoil and pain...and feel this is true for errol.
Oh yes, I agree. It's all self-medication. Happy people don't drink glass after glass of "fire water" until they're stupid drunk, or pass out. Happy people don't stick needles in their arms.
I don't think he felt pain or remorse
Many actors and comedians have had very sad lives, particularly comedians, shame 5hat they cannot do for themselves what they do for us!!
My favorite Actor,Very sad his life.
Karl Sharrah From Singapore 🇸🇬 He lived a exciting life... I'm 80 my beautiful honey is 23! Errol Flynn was the greatest!
He was on a path to self-destruction all his life. Very sad.
But he was Great ! ....lot better then 2020 actors...
Loved him in , Too much, too soon, he was still very attractive. He was no different than most movie stars , either gay or straight.
His first wife once said, "I loved him anyway and he was, as everyone suspected, an endearing rascal." I would repeat the same thing--I love him anyway... And everybody agreed during his life time that was just so likable, including his Warner Brothers bosses, his third wife, and his friends. So who cares if any documentary wants to tilt toward negativity.
His first wife sucked him dry till the day he died.
+Fan Mac : I agree. One thing is for certain.... the people who knew him best (former wives, close friends like David Niven, etc) spoke highly of him after his death. That's the most reliable barometer we have to measure a person's worth as a human being.
Helenaville
Helenaville,
An other actor's evaluation of a criminals worth is not an accurate barometer if the truth is omitted in favor of fiction, fantasy and Holywood.
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Check MR Flynn out in the epic"Santa Fe Trail".Great pre-civil war flick.🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴
Seemed pretty well Irish too me honestly
"Swashbuckler" should feature his picture in the dictionary, - apparently a charming,likable,undisciplined cad.....just the kind women love. Haha
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1.25. What is this music?????
Trial by he said/she said, and the creepiest narrator who is basically more weasel than human Flynn.
What an utterly stupid comment.
Eroll flynn is a legend until today no want can get closed to him He is a real swashbuckling actor as a fan we don't want to know his personal life flynn is the only actor from nobody to somebody
As "Australian" (like "American") labels mainly one's now and historically recent nationality, Errol Flynn was well within his rights--and like his zoologist father taxonomically correct--to acknowledge, lay claim to his more distant Irish ancestry that begat his surname "Flynn." And his trademark brave, boldly individualistic and rebellious, feistily adventurous spirit and love of wild, free nature and poetic declamation certainly were Celtic.
Flynn was no Australian, he was an Irish Celt.
Tasmanian
Oh come on get with it. Statutory rape means they were younger than 18 the age of majority and consent. Otherwise known as sex with a minor. And like mentioned in other interviews, young women were throwing themselves at him.
Scene at 5:00 .. very sad. Cause I imagine behind closed doors, that's what he was like.
I agree with you.
Oh yes, I agree. But there isn't much to question here because he describes that same kind of scene in his book MWWW. The incident I'm thinking about is after the trial (or maybe it was during, or both) when he's sitting on the bed with a revolver in his mouth. Yes, very sad.
+coeenc123 Know I am one of Errol Flynn's biggest fan's. I'm so proud to say that he is a Australian !!!! His father in his younger yrs himself was a secondary school teacher in the area I come from in NSW !!!! I know a lot about Errol 👍👍👍
@@ATINKERER he was too vain to commit suicide.
@@ATINKERER And he did it several nights in a row, but he also admits to feeling suicidal right before going off to the Spanish Civil War in the later 30s
Dear Beverly Aadland..a dancer in a movie in Hollywood at that time was never a innocent little girl...! he was married.
And? That was his vow, not hers idiot.
I think he was hurt in charge of the light brigade
He enjoyed life...What the hell ,why not? We all finish in a box in the ground anyways.He liked young girls ? So what!100% normal.
But he didn't enjoy life. He tried to, but he didn't.
The main reason is that it’s rape.
ill drink to the LOL
Born in Tasmania what else is not true?
HEY ERROL. FLYING TRAP. YOU BIG GUY. YOU YOU. I WISH I COULD FALL AWAY. THANKS FOR ALL YOUR LOVE AND BEST KEPT SECRET. YOU REALLY WISH THIS WASN'T YOU. YOU WEREN'T OTHERS AND VICE AND FOR VERSA. LOVE YOU BIG GUY WITH ALL THE TEARS I COULD COME UP WITH. LOVE YOU ALWAYS. GOOD RHINO SHOW. DON'T BEAT MR TALL ROBINHOOD. YOU WILL MAYBE LATER.
Wtf are you babbling about???😧
Great a total handsome great actor felt he had to prove That he was more man than most. Beautiful ladys all over Hollywood Studios. And he had to concoure little girls deasperate to please any man.Any. mam they thought could have feathered. Her acting career along. These teens knew exactly what they were doing.when they saw that sex wasn't gonna make any difference. They cried to ma and Pa pa
Flynn said he tried all types of drugs except heroin
COS
i agree, but Errol did have a very dark side to his nature. People criticized him in life and death. I don't think he actually liked women thanks to the treatment he got from his mother and 1st wife. And in the rape trials he had a plane on standby to get out of the US quickly. I do think he was a set up though. Never the less I did like him very much....his best friend was Ida Lapino.
Yeah, and she married Howard Duff. Poor man's Errol Flynn!
Well he wasn't under the influence of morphine if he allegedly attacked this woman with sex on his mind. Any doctor will tell you that morphine kills the sex drive at the time as killing the pain. One of it's side effects which I can confirm.
R.I.P. Thanxs for Robin HOOD!
Who u calling bung hole 🤨
You cornholio
He must of been a deeply troubled man. Anyone know if he had any mental illness?
I feel most of his emotional problems stemmed from his childhood and his relationship predominantly with his mother who he hated with a vengeance.
Hi Wobble,
I couldn't agree with you more. In addition to what you wrote, the fact that his first wife was a violent, sadistic, paranoid, mad woman, who attacked him with any weapon that was handy, didn't help matters any. But you're right I think, the course was set in his youth, by the age of 16. If he hadn't become a movie star he still would have driven himself to an early grave, because of his childhood. Only he would have died in obscurity.
He was wicked
I think he must have had some undiagnosed personalty disorder(s), or ADD at minimum, based on his childhood inability to focus in school, and his constant restlessness, despite his great intelligence. (He later educated himself by reading voraciously.) It appears he might have had some anxiety disorder too, based on anecdotal evidence in his autobiography and elsewhere.
His parents were Irish.
Sorry about his health he got weight and looked puffy . Still he was , In like Flynn .
Errol had a great zest for living,and twice an urge t o die.
While this may be accurate, it's still tabloid trash. On a movie set some thirty-five years ago, during breaks, I met and spoke with one of Errol's sons. More than once, he brought his father up very matter-of-factly, and it was obvious that he thought very well of him. So I guess this presentation is far from the whole story.
Errol only had 1 son, Sean
@@maggiemae7749 Maybe there were others: who knows?
@@johnhardman3 There was another guy who claimed to be his illegitimate son in the movie business at that time, but I doubt he'd have ever known Flynn even if true. Flynn himself alluded to the fact that he might have other kids out there he didn't know about in his autobiography.
WHY DO YOU WATCH MOVIES?
WHY DO YOU STARE AT FRAUDS?
WHY DO PEOPLE WANT TO BE SOMEONE THEY ARE NOT?
WHY DO YOU WORSHIPS FRAUDS?
What evidence? or just gossip.? apparently all the stars were bisexuality weren't they? you have to make your own mind up. certain authors of books on Hollywood are just crap stirrers with no referencing at all where their material comes from.
Why is he shamelessly admitting he's Irish ??!!
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