In fact, Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn was born on June 20, 1909, in Hobart in the Australian island state of Tasmania. He died on October 14, 1959, in Vancouver, Canada, and is buried in the Garden of Everlasting Peace at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA.
(Another international screen star of the time, Merle Oberon, has also been said to have been born in Tasmania.)
Errol Flynn first appeared in film in the Australian movie In the Wake of the Bounty (1933). Interestingly, he is said to be a direct descendant on his mother's side of Bounty mutineers Fletcher Christian and Edward Young. In In the Wake of the Bounty, Flynn's role was that of Fletcher Christian.
Errol Flynn appeared in some 60 films from 1933 to the late 1950s and gained the reputation of being the quintessential Hollywood swashbuckling sword-wielding adventure hero. His private life was a different matter altogether, and he was involved in a number of scandal-laden Hollywood incidents.
Errol Flynn was married three times: to actress Lili Damita from 1935 to 1942 (one son, Sean), to Nora Eddington from 1943 to 1948 (two daughters, Deirdre and Rory), and to actress Patrice Wymore from 1950 until his death (one daughter, Arnella Roma). His son, Sean Flynn, who became an actor and later a war correspondent, disappeared in Cambodia in 1970 during the Indochina conflict.
