Errol Flynn - Biography - IMDb Errol Flynn Biography Showing all 105 items Jump to: Overview (5) | Mini Bio (2) | Spouse (3) | Trade Mark (2) | Trivia (67) | Personal Quotes (17) | Salary (9) Overview (5) 6' 2" (1.88 m) Mini Bio (2) Errol Flynn was born to parents Theodore Flynn , a respected biologist, and Marrelle Young, an adventurous young woman. Young Flynn was a rambunctious child who could be counted on to find trouble. Errol managed to have himself thrown out of every school he was enrolled in. In his late teens he set out to find gold, but instead found a series of short lived odd jobs. Information is sketchy, but the positions of police constable, sanitation engineer, treasure hunter, sheep castrator, shipmaster for hire, fisherman, and soldier seem to be among his more reputable career choices. Staying one jump ahead of the law and jealous husbands forced Flynn to England.

He took up acting, a pastime he had previously stumbled into when asked to play (ironically) Fletcher Christian in a film called In the Wake of the Bounty (1933). Flynn's natural athletic talent and good looks attracted the attention of Warner Brothers and soon he was off to America. His luck held when he replaced Robert Donat in the title role of Captain Blood (1935). He quickly rocketed to stardom as the undisputed king of swashbuckler films, a title inherited from Douglas Fairbanks , but which remains his to this day. Onscreen, he was the freedom loving rebel, a man of action who fought against injustice and won the hearts of damsels in the process. His off-screen passions; drinking, fighting, boating and sex, made his film escapades seem pale. His love life brought him considerable fame, three statutory rape trials, and a lasting memorial in the expression "In like Flynn". Serious roles eluded him, and as his lifestyle eroded his youthful good looks, his career declined. Troubles with lawsuits and the IRS plagued him at this time, eroding what little money he had saved.

A few good roles did come his way late in life, however, usually aging alcoholics, almost mirror images of Flynn. He was making a name as a serious actor before his death. Errol Flynn wrote an autobiography entitled "My Wicked, Wicked Ways". In the autobiography Flynn mentions his pilot, Barry Mahon throughout the book. Barry Mahon was a decorated fighter pilot who shot down more enemy aircraft than any other pilot in history. He was also the only man to escape from the Germans twice in World War II and the Hollywood movie, THE GREAT ESCAPE starring Steve McQueen, was based on Barry's life and this true-life adventure. It was thus only fitting that Errol Flynn, constantly fleeing from IRS agents, pissed off women and and law suits would hire Barry Mahon to be his personal pilot. But what is stranger than this is that. in later years. Barry Mahon would become Errol Flynn's personal manager and CEO of his production company, giving up flying to produce motion pictures. Accordingly, after Errol passed away, Barry Mahon and his daughter, producer Doris Keating, were able to purchase the literary rights to Errol Flynn's autobiography ("My Wicked Wicked Ways").

Based upon this and the track record established by Doris Keating with 4 prior TV movies, CBS granted a license agreement to Doris Keating Productions and, working with Columbia Pictures TV, Keating produced an extremely classy and well-cast Movie-of-the-Week which aired on CBS to rave reviews. This movie, a must-see bio-picture, does great justice to legend of Errol Flynn, and although it did not "white wash" the trouble Flynn got into in later years, it accurately reported that he was innocent of all charges brought against him. Unfortunately, these false charges contributed to the ruin of Errol Flynn's career as movie studios and the public are often fickle or unforgiving. He is considered one of the greatest movie swashbucklers of the sound period. Usually had a moustache Trivia (67) Father, with Patrice Wymore of Arnella (25 December 1953 - 21 September 1998) Father with Nora Eddington of Deirdre Flynn (born January 10, 1945) and Rory Flynn (born March 12, 1947).

Ranked #70 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997] Father, with Lili Damita of photojournalist Sean Flynn (1941 - 1970). It has been said that his 1959 autobiography, "My Wicked Wicked Ways," was originally to be called "In Like Me." Was tried for statutory rape in 1942 but was acquitted. When banned from drinking on a film set, he would inject oranges with vodka and eat them during his breaks. Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, in the Garden of Everlasting Peace. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#86). [1995] The hit song "Errol", by Australian band Australian Crawl, was about him. The phrase "In like Flynn," stems from his 1942 trial for statutory rape. His son Sean Flynn appeared in a few films but didn't particularly like being an actor. He switched careers and was a freelance photojournalist during the Vietnam War.

He disappeared with another journalist as they followed the US Army invasion into Cambodia and both were thought to have been captured and executed by Khmer Rouge guerrillas. He is the subject of the 1981 The Clash song, "Sean Flynn." He claimed to be the great-great-great-great-grandson of HMS Bounty mutineer Edward "Ned" Young. However research suggests this was not actually true. Flynn portrayed Fletcher Christian in the film In the Wake of the Bounty (1933). He was also the 23rd great-grandson of Robert De Vere. In addition, he is the 15th cousin twice removed of Olivia de Havilland , who played Maid Marian, his love interest, in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). He was voted the 55th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly. His father was head of the zoology department at the University of Tasmania. He was voted the 26th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

It was during a Parkinson (1971) interview that his good friend David Niven revealed that during the filming of The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), Flynn was busy on a horse during a break applying makeup with one hand whilst holding a mirror in the other. An extra seeing this assumed (like most of the people around) that he was gay, and decided to "pock" the horse up the behind with his lance - the horse bucked, throwing Flynn to the ground. He got to his feet and asked who had done that, the extra volunteered, thinking that this would only add to his embarrassment. However, Flynn dragged him from the horse and gave him a sound beating. They were the best of friends after that. He met his second wife while she was working at a snack counter in a courthouse during one of his rape trials. His father, Theodore Flynn , taught biology at Queens College, Belfast. Warner Brothers' publicity department tried to claim that he was from Ireland, when he was in fact from Tasmania, the small island state of Australia.

He and Olivia de Havilland acted together in 9 movies: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), Dodge City (1939), Four's a Crowd (1938), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), Santa Fe Trail (1940), Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) and They Died with Their Boots On (1941) Although only 50, he succumbed to a massive heart attack at the apartment of Dr. Grant Gould in Vancouver while he was there to sell his yacht (The Zaca) to an old friend, George Caldough. The yacht was his "pride and joy", but due to financial difficulties, he was forced to sell it and had primarily lived on it during his final years. The autopsy showed he had the body of a 75-year-old man. His liver was so badly damaged that he could only have lived for another 9-12 months. Although Australian, his genealogy shows both British and Irish descent.

He and director Michael Curtiz made some of their best pictures together, but he despised Curtiz (which was mutual) and the two fought constantly whenever they worked together. Ironically, his first wife Lili Damita was previously briefly married to Curtiz. Declaring to his second wife that he wanted to experience everything in life, he began dabbling in opium in the late 1940s and quickly became a full-fledged addict. His opium addiction and the effects of the alcohol that ravaged his body over the years contributed to his premature death in 1959 at only age 50. Mentioned in the song "Blood on the Rooftops" by Genesis . His performance as Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) is ranked #16 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time. In 1980, author Charles Higham published a controversial biography, "Errol Flynn: The Untold Story," in which he alleged that Flynn was a fascist sympathizer who spied for the Nazis before and during World War II.

In Disney's film The Rocketeer (1991), the major villain, Neville Sinclair, was a 1930s Hollywood actor who spied for the Nazis, an obvious reference to Higham's allegations about Flynn. The book also alleged he was bisexual and had affairs with Tyrone Power , Howard Hughes and Truman Capote . Subsequent biographies - notably Tony Thomas ' "Errol Flynn: The Spy Who Never Was" (1990) - have denounced Higham's claims as fabrications. Flynn's political beliefs appear to have been left-wing. He was a strong supporter of the Spanish Republic and a fervent opponent of ultra-conservative Gen. Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War, and was a supporter of Fidel Castro 's revolution in Cuba, even hosting a documentary titled The Truth About Fidel Castro Revolution (1959) shortly before his death. According to his own posthumous autobiography, "My Wicked, Wicked Ways", he admired Castro and considered him a personal friend. He was granted a 4-F deferment during World War II due to his weak heart, exacerbated by bouts of malaria and tuberculosis.

During the filming of Gentleman Jim (1942) Flynn suffered a mild heart attack. His mother had Polynesian ancestry, from Tahiti, through her four great-grandmothers--the mutineers of HMS Bounty sailed from Tahiti to Pitcairn Island, taking some Tahitian women with them. As of 2005, there were an estimated 55 descendants of the mutineers still living on Pitcairn. Through his mother, Flynn was descended from the illegitimate daughter of an unknown mother and Sir Richard Neville, 6th Earl of Salisbury and 16th Earl Consort of Warwick, 181th Knight of the Garter. Neville in his turn was descended, through his mother, from Thomas Holland, a stepson of Edward "the Black Prince" Plantagenet, son of King Edward III of England and father of the later King Richard II. Flynn played the Black Prince in The Warriors (1955), commonly known in the USA as The Warriors. Probably his most uncharacteristic screen appearance occurred in Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) when he sang and danced his way through a pub number entitled "That's What You Jolly Well Get".

In The Case of the Curious Bride (1935), one of his earliest films, his role consisted of lying on a marble slab as a corpse. There was also a flashback sequence towards the end of the film showing how Flynn was killed. The film in question has appeared at least twice on Turner Classic Movies during Errol Flynn festivals despite his very limited (certainly less than two minutes) screen time. A chain smoker, in the last year of his life, he underwent hospital tests to see whether he had throat cancer. Nearly died from food poisoning after eating uncooked ground hamburger meat mixed with raw egg yolk early in 1959. In the early days of establishing his Hollywood career, he passed himself off as Irish in the belief that few people knew of Australia. He was born, educated and began work in Australia, later drifting between Papua New Guinea and Sydney (rumoured to have been a fighter for PNG) before stumbling on to acting. The Australian film In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) captured some attention for him in the States and so, owing enormous debts to the Australian Taxation Office, he moved to America. He said to the ATO, "I'm willing to forget if you are".

In the last two years of his life, Flynn caused a scandal by touring the world with his 15-year-old mistress Beverly Aadland , who was working as his secretary. Their affair was the subject of a 1961 book by Beverly's mother Florence Aadland entitled The Big Love', which describes how this mom intentionally pushed her daughter into the affair with Flynn. This affair is the subject of the movie The Last of Robin Hood (2013). Once stated that his only regret was his non-participation in World War II. He was considered for Leslie Howard 's role in Gone with the Wind (1939). He was also allegedly considered for the role of Rhett Butler, but Bette Davis (who was to play Scarlett O'Hara) vetoed the idea. Became seriously ill with liver failure in 1952 while filming The Story of William Tell (1953) in Rome. Had a vasectomy in 1955. In his final years he suffered from Buerger's disease, acute inflammation and thrombosis (clotting) of arteries and veins of the legs, hands and feet as a result of his excessive cigarette smoking.

Best remembered by the public for his starring in swash-buckling adventure films. Independent writer/director Patrick Stark is creating a dramatic feature about the last days of Flynn's life in Vancouver, British Columbia. The underlying causes of his death were myocardial infarction, coronary thrombosis, coronary atherosclerosis, liver degeneration, liver sclerosis and diverticulitis of the colon. Though Flynn did most of his own stunts in Against All Flags (1952), he balked at the one involving sliding down through a sail on a rapier blade, which was originated by Douglas Fairbanks in The Black Pirate (1926); it was performed by a stunt double. A recent Australian documentary on his life and career, narrated by Christopher Lee , included a film clip of Flynn being interviewed on his being nominated for the Academy Award for his critically acclaimed performance in The Sun Also Rises (1957). We are then told that the nomination "disappeared". Mentioned in the Jimmy Buffett song, "Pencil Thin Mustache".

In the last year of his life he turned down an offer to star in a major swashbuckling series for US television, in which Flynn would play the same kind of character he had played in Captain Blood (1935), with younger stand-ins performing his stunts. "I knew it would be crap," he explained. In his book, "My Wicked Wicked Ways", Flynn recounted that as a young man in Papua, New Guinea, he had many adventurous jobs as a gold prospector, slave recruiter, a diamond smuggler, and a manager of coconut and tobacco plantations, just to name a few. He also spent a short time as a cadet patrol officer until it was discovered that he had misrepresented himself. Unfortunately, his time in New Guinea came with a price. While there, Flynn contracted malaria, which would plague him for the rest of his life. It has been a matter of dispute as to whether all his stories of adventure were true, but many have concluded that even if only 25% percent were true, he certainly had an amazing life. On arriving in Britain in 1933, he found an acting job with the Northampton Repertory Company, where he worked for seven months.

However, it is disputed whether he performed at the 1934 Malvern Festival and in Glasgow and London's West End. Dream project was a biopic about the notorious Australian-Irish outlaw Ned Kelly, which nearly got produced by Warner Brothers in the mid 1940s. According to his autobiography, Errol Flynn's mother, Marelle Young, was a descendant of Midshipman Edward ("Ned") Young, a Bounty mutineer who went to Pitcairn with Fletcher Christian. Young had four children with Toofaiti, Nancy, George, Robert and William, and three more with Christian's widow Mauatua, Edward, Polly and Dorothea. His descendants still live on Pitcairn, Norfolk and in New Zealand. He was a friend of Hermann Erben - monkey expert, drug dealer, Hitler impersonator and German agent who spent voluntarily three years in a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai. He is frequently mentioned in Marvel Comics' 'X-Men' series as the idol of the character Nightcrawler.

Since he was on the May 23, 1938 cover of Life magazine, a copy of which was placed in the Westinghouse Time Capsule at the 1939 World's Fair and not to be opened for 50 centuries, Errol Flynn will be remembered in thousands of years to come. At his funeral on October 19, 1959 his bronze casket, covered with yellow roses, was carried from the Church of the Recessional at Forest Lawn, Glendale, CA by Raoul Walsh, Mickey Rooney, Quinn "Big Boy" Williams, Jack Oakie, Otto Reichow and Mike Romanoff. Kevin Kline plays Flynn in a motion-picture version of his affair with 15-year-old Beverly Aadland in The Last of Robin Hood (2013). Mulholland Farm, Errol's old house, was located at 3100 Torreyson Place off Mulholland Drive overlooking the San Fernando Valley. Originally situated on 11 1/2 acres, the original house was last occupied by Rick Nelson, who bought it for $750k in 1980.

His twin sons, Gunnar and Matthew Nelson, grew up in the house and were the last people to live in it. Unfortunately, due to years of neglect, the house and other structures (a pool, barn and a casino!) were demolished in 1988 and sub-divided into several smaller parcels. Justin Timberlake currently owns the large compound at the top of the property at the end of Torreyson Drive. On the left is the original entrance to Errol's property, Flynn Ranch Road, but it is now gated-closed. You can catch a glimpse of Mulholland Farm in it's heyday at the beginning of the short film "The Cruise Of The Zaca" from 1952. TCM shows it quite frequently as filler between movies. While looking for native agricultural laborers in New Guinea in 1933, he was pursued and nearly captured by headhunters.

He had two roles in common with Douglas Fairbanks : (1) Fairbanks played Robin Hood in Robin Hood (1922) while Flynn played him in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and (2) Fairbanks played Don Juan de Maraña in The Private Life of Don Juan (1934) while Flynn played him in Adventures of Don Juan (1948). Shortly before his death he had a tumor removed from his mouth. Although he played Anna Neagle 's father in Let's Make Up (1954), he was almost five years her junior in real life. Often drank two or three quarts of vodka a day. May have had oral cancer at the time of his death. Personal Quotes (17) You once liked the blissful mobility, but then you wonder, who's the real you? And who's the chap on the screen? You know, I catch myself acting out my life like a goddamn script. They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living. I do what I like. I like my whiskey old and my women young. [last words] I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it.

I can't reconcile my gross habits with my net income. I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest. The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down. It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. If I have any genius it is a genius for living. I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day. Women won't let me stay single, and I won't let myself stay married. I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world. I've made six or seven good films - the others, not so good. My job is to defy the normal. By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor. I had now made about forty-five pictures, but what had I become? I knew all too well: a phallic symbol. All over the world I was, as a name and personality, equated with sex.

Salary (9) My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn, By Errol Flynn - Introduction by Jeffrey Meyers, 9780815412502 | Rowman & Littlefield The Autobiography of Errol Flynn Errol Flynn - Introduction by Jeffrey Meyers Paperback Known to millions as the preeminent swashbuckler of the silver screen, Errol Flynn was a complex man who lived a life far more adventurous than any of his films. In My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Flynn reveals himself to be a self-aware and cosmopolitan devotee of excitement and pleasure. With gusto, he recalls his years as a soldier of fortune in the South Seas, his trip to war-torn Spain, his battles in Hollywood with studio honchos (Jack Warner was a particular nemesis) and ex-wives (esp. Lili Damita), and the furor surrounding his trial for rape in 1943. Freely mixing verbal abuse and tall tales with candid confessions, Flynn's autobiography makes for one hell of a read.

« less more » Pages: 456  Size: 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 978-0-8154-1250-2 • Paperback • November 2002 • $17.95 • (£11.95) Teaching Resources For access to these professor use only materials, please Register then email us at textbooks@rowman.com Errol Flynn (1909-1959) starred in 53 films including The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk, and The Sun Also Rises. Jeffrey Meyers, author of Inherited Risk: Errol Flynn and Sean Flynn in Hollywood and Vietnam , lives in Berkeley, California. This is a major autobiography in the tradition of Cellini, Casanova, and Frank Harris. — Guardian Flynn set the record straight and is brutally honest in his posthumously published self-portrait. This restored version of the 1959 original contains numerous passages deletec from earlier editions for fear of lawsuits—he was equally brutal in his portrayal of many Hollywood big shots—plus eight pages of photos and a new introduction by biographer Jeffrey Meyers.

— Library Journal A document on Hollywood life far beyond its fan magazine fascination… . [Flynn] delivers footnotes to film history that are hard to come by. — San Francisco Chronicle The Tasmanian-actor portrays himself not as a debonair swashbuckler but as a chronically unhappy soul whose luck talent and high spirits vaulted him to fame, even as he remained unfulfilled until the end. — Indiana Gazette This restored version of the 1959 original contains numerous passages deleted from earlier editions for fear of lawsuits- he was equally brutal in his portrayal of many Hollywood big shots- plus eight pages of photos and a new introduction by biographer Jeffery Meyers. — Michael Rogers; Library Journal In the book, Flynn writes in a loose style, sometimes reminiscent of someone writing in a journal, sometimes as though he is talking to a friend. — Carol Moulton; Clifton Record "the confessions of a rake, unsparing of himself or anyone else..." — Newsweek William Macy isn't a fan of horses, althoughn he understands the power of aniamals on the human spirit.

<1>But there's something about telling stories about animals that allows us to epathize ever more than we can with people. — The Scoop Incredibly absorbing… . Just as in life, Flynn spares himself nothing-and from his book emerges the same roguish charm that endeared his celluloid incarnation to millions. — Saturday Review Flynn writes cleverly, as he talked. He has left us a good book. — The New York Times Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn 47 people found this helpful 4.0 out of 5 starsFlynn's Autobiography is Mixture of Fact, Fiction ByA customeron March 13, 1998 By the time Errol Flynn got around to the task of putting his incredibly adventurous life on paper, booze, drugs and a life of dissipation had caught up with him.

At 50, he was a wasted shadow of the once beautiful, vibrant movie idol who had captured a nation's imagination in such glorious screen epics as "Captain Blood" and "The Adventures of Robin Hood." No longer capable of the sustained concentration and commitment necessary to write an autobiography, Putnam and Sons assigned Flynn to a ghost writer by the name of Earl Conrad. Conrad spent many hours interviewing Flynn, and the result is "My Wicked, Wicked Ways." While the book was not written by Flynn, Conrad tried to duplicate the actor's unique way of expressing himself so that it was, in a way, spoken with Flynn's voice. The reader of "My Wicked, Wicked Ways" should be aware that a great deal of its contents has, since its publication, been discovered to be false. Flynn either made things up as he went along -- he was a notorious and gifted liar -- or he was confused thanks to the two quarts of vodka he tossed down every day of his life, and simply got some things wrong. Whatever the case may be, Errol Flynn did not tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth in "his" autobiography.

However, "My Wicked, Wicked Ways" is still a rousing look at a rousing life...at one of the most visually stunning men of his or any other day...at a man who could seemingly generate screen magic without effort...at a man whose demons drove him, at the age of 50, into his grave with the body of an 85-year-old man. For those reasons it is worth reading. 106 people found this helpful 3.0 out of 5 starsIn With Flynn ByBill Slocumon February 6, 2006 For a generation or two of eager young men, he was the epitome of adventure and accomplishment, especially with the opposite sex, and Errol Flynn's autobiography doesn't disappoint. "My Wicked, Wicked Ways" is a remarkably candid and eloquent account of the star's life as he saw it that reads like you are there spending a besotted long evening in the company of the screen world's Tasmanian Devil. Errol Flynn won little critical acclaim in his lifetime.

His only Academy Award nomination, if you can call it that, was bestowed on Peter O'Toole for playing a thinly-disguised Flynn in the 1982 film "My Favorite Year," where O'Toole plays a character named Alan Swann with an affinity for cognac rather than vodka but otherwise is an obvious parallel for Flynn. Was Alan Swann the real thing? Was Errol Flynn? "My Wicked, Wicked Ways" leaves room for doubt. He tells some improbably tall tales of fighting natives in New Guinea and sailing through hurricanes in the Caribbean. I think I believe the slapping story about Bette Davis, though, since I read it in a couple of other places. The post-mortem story about John Barrymore is legendary, too, and it's especially fascinating reading Flynn's account since he was the victim of one of Hollywood's most legendary heartless pranks, a punking that Ashton Kutcher would have blanched at.

Flynn was an odd screen star, as he makes clear, starting out a gold prospector on the other side of the Pacific from Hollywood with no thought of movie acting until he found himself virtually drafted by a director making a movie about the mutiny on the Bounty, in which young Flynn played Fletcher Christian. Later, he recalls his time with another actor who also played Christian in a better-known production, Clark Gable: "If anyone should ask 'What do two actors talk about when they meet?' the answer is Themselves.'" Yet Flynn isn't quite as full of himself as that. As "My Wicked, Wicked Ways" makes clear, the last thing he really cared about was his screen image. That's actually a negative for me reading the book; I hoped to read more about his on-screen work. Alas, he barely mentions "The Adventures Of Robin Hood," his greatest screen role, and less than that of other screen performances like George Armstrong Custer in "They Died With Their Boots On" and the title role in his breakout film, "Captain Blood." Flynn claims here he hated his cinematic roles enough to contemplate suicide after a time faced with the repetitiveness of one swashbuckler after another.

He found sanctuary in booze instead. If there's one message in "My Wicked, Wicked Ways," it was that Flynn was a serious person, with an interest in science and literature, though all that was drowned out in the public imagining by his attraction for the opposite sex. This is actually a point of obvious, repetitive bitterness for Flynn or his ghostwriter, I suspect both: "A man who for a woman fits the bill is the one who pays the bill." The poormouthing does grate after a while. Reading Flynn complain about divorce lawyers is like hearing Charles Manson whine about police officers. He brought it on himself, as he's the first to admit, unable to understand monogamy in the abstract or in practice. But he seems unwilling to make the connection between the life he led and the inevitable results. Still, this is an engaging, intelligent book that at times reads like Joseph Conrad and at times like a deposition at the Los Angeles district attorney's office. Never less than entertaining, it never quite gels into something coherent. If nothing else, it shows Flynn nearing the end of his days still displaying real wit and self-awareness. "There's out, and then there's out," Alan Swann says.

Errol Flynn seems far from out here, and indeed, he comes across more alive from reading this than many actors on the screen today. Errol Flynn - Wikiquote Errol Flynn Jump to: navigation , search I like my whisky old and my women young. Quotes[ edit ] So, come all you young men. with your wicked, wicked ways. Sow your wild oats in your younger days. So that we may be happy when we grow old. Yes! happy and happy when we grow old. For the day's getting on and the night's getting long. Darling please gimme your arm and we'll joggle along, yes, we'll joggle and joggle and joggle along. From his autobiography My Wicked Wicked Ways - 1959 This man more than superseded my every expectation I had...if you live with a man under duress (this is before the victory…) he is I think…he will rank in history with some of the greats. Source: Statement made by Errol Flynn about Fidel Castro in a TV interview on the Canadian TV program Front Page held in 1959. [1] One can't get to know people well here; the social life is amusing but superficial.

However, remember that I am just a savage, from the jungles (of New Guinea where he had sailed and worked as a government clerk)! Perhaps when I am tamed, I will jump through the social hoops, too. Spoken to M.G. Hart, writer, after his success as "Captain Blood," about being a newcomer to Hollywood, for magazine article Silver Screen, January 1936 My Wicked, Wicked Ways : The Autobiography of Errol Flynn by Errol Flynn (2002, Paperback, Reprint) | eBay My Wicked, Wicked Ways : The Autobiography of Errol Flynn by Errol Flynn (2002, Paperback, Reprint) 4.6average based on 5 product ratings 5 Trending price is based on prices over last 90 days. Brand NewLOWEST PRICE Sold by moviemars-books Est. delivery by Dec 30 Sold by goodwill-ni See details for delivery est.

All listings for this product Any Condition Synopsis Synopsis Errol Flynn (1909-1959) lived a life that far surpassed any adventure that he had ever filmed: exotic travels, criminal exploits, affairs with beautiful women, violent confrontations, statutory rape charges, scandals and international fame. This autobiography reveals Flynn and his remarkable life.,This book, illustrated for the first time with two dozen photos, reveals an introspective and enigmatic personality previously hidden behind a hedonistic facade. Product Identifiers Reviews Reviews "the confessions of a rake, unsparing of himself or anyone else...",A document on Hollywood life far beyond its fan magazine fascination . [Flynn] delivers footnotes to film history that are hard to come by.,A document on Hollywood life far beyond its fan magazine fascinationâŠ . [Flynn] delivers footnotes to film history that are hard to come by.,Flynn set the record straight and is brutally honest in his posthumously published self-portrait.

This restored version of the 1959 original contains numerous passages deletec from earlier editions for fear of lawsuits âhe was equally brutal in his portrayal of many Hollywood big shots âplus eight pages of photos and a new introduction by biographer Jeffrey Meyers.,Flynn writes cleverly, as he talked. He has left us a good book.,In the book, Flynn writes in a loose style, sometimes reminiscent of someone writing in a journal, sometimes as though he is talking to a friend.,Incredibly absorbing... . Just as in life, Flynn spares himself nothing-and from his book emerges the same roguish charm that endeared his celluloid incarnation to millions.,Incredibly absorbingâŠ .

Just as in life, Flynn spares himself nothing-and from his book emerges the same roguish charm that endeared his celluloid incarnation to millions.,The Tasmanian-actor portrays himself not as a debonair swashbuckler but as a chronically unhappy soul whose luck talent and high spirits vaulted him to fame, even as he remained unfulfilled until the end.,This is a major autobiography in the tradition of Cellini, Casanova, and Frank Harris.,This restored version of the 1959 original contains numerous passages deleted from earlier editions for fear of lawsuits- he was equally brutal in his portrayal of many Hollywood big shots- plus eight pages of photos and a new introduction by biographer Jeffery Meyers.,William Macy isn't a fan of horses, althoughn he understands the power of aniamals on the human spirit. But there's something about telling stories about animals that allows us to epathize ever more than we can with people. 4.6 by hatterasgear Oct 13, 2010 Flynn's official rebuttal offers few apologies Flynn writes simply in an effort to put a common man spin on his extraordinary life.

As he assumes a debonair attitude re: pedophilia, grand larceny & whore mongering, it becomes clear he was in reality, quite complex. He often makes light of his relentless self indulgence and makes it all seem quite natural. Maybe it is. Maybe its also natural to defend oneself from the bad press which naturally ensues. Nevertheless, his adventures are quite interesting and his perspective curious. This was an easy, enjoyable read. And be glad you were not one of his dogs. by 1mtdew123 May 02, 2011 Self portrait of a charming rogue If you are a fan of Errol Flynn then you will probably enjoy this book. Having already read a couple of biographies written by other people this book does come across as somewhat of a whitewash, but of course it is expected that an autobiography will usually cast the subject in a better light. Flynn certainly does not attempt to make himself appear as a saint by any means, but he does paint a portrait of himself as a charming rogue. Does get a bit long winded in parts but overall well worth reading. by terry.childs Aug 09, 2006 The title explains it all.

An excellent book about one of Hollywood's true legends. Errol Flynn's real life was much more exciting than anyone he ever portrayed on the screen. He tells of the flaws of others he associated with, including his own. He spares no one, and certainly not himself. One of those books you hate to put down. by jairm2006 Aug 09, 2009 great adventure It is a biography that sounds like a great adventure, but is an amazing literature too, so you will have a great writer and the life of a great actor too Best Selling in Textbooks, Education Trending price is based on prices over last 90 days. TRENDING PRICE $10.27New

Question: Who entitled his autobiography "My Wicked, Wicked Ways"?
Answer: Errol Flynn