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  • NAME: Errol Flynn
  • OCCUPATION: Film Actor
  • BIRTH DATE: June 20, 1909
  • DEATH DATE: October 14, 1955
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Hobart, Australia
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Vancouver, Canada
  • Full Name: Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn

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Australian actor Errol Flynn was celebrated as the screen's foremost swashbuckler. He had a reputation as an irrepressible drinker and womanizer.


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In 1933 Errol Flynn was offered a role in In the Wake of the Bounty. He took a few roles in British films and ultimately scored a contract with Warner Bros. in Hollywood. He went on to star in such colorful costume dramas as The Charge of the Light Brigade also some big-budget westerns. After some legal trouble, he had a brief resurgence of popularity with The Sun Also Rises.

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