In the days before the incident, there were numerous indications that the actor was on his last legs; notorious for his heavy drinking, hard living, and insatiable sexual appetite, Flynn already looked far older than his 50 years. In addition to cirrhosis, he was dealing with recurrent malaria, an intestinal infection, and chronic back pain which, for a time, he had used heroin to combat , and had already suffered two previous heart attacks.
In fact, just one month earlier, his doctor had conducted an ECG and had cautioned Flynn to scale back his lifestyle. A recent , never completed film production about William Tell, which he had helped produce, had been a financial disaster, and his autobiography, My Wicked, Wicked Ways , had yet to hit bookstore shelves.
So, seeking quick cash, he had agreed to sell his prized yacht to George Caldough, a year-old stock promoter who lived in the British Properties. Errol Flynn in a colour publicity still for The Sea Hawk. For several days, Flynn had been complaining about worsening pain in his back and legs he was bedridden for several days , and while en route to the airport, he demanded that Caldough track down someone who could help.
At approximately p. Grant Gould. Errol Flynn in Vancouver, date unknown. After stealing loose gems from his wealthy sugar mama and hiding them in the hollow of a shaving brush, Flynn began his trek to England with an equally amoral Dutch doctor. The two blundered across the world, cheating at cockfights in the Philippines, getting scammed by a beautiful, opium-smoking sex worker in the casinos of Macao, and defecting from the Royal Hong Kong Army Volunteers.
By , Flynn was a swashbuckling Hollywood sex symbol, the star of Captain Blood, and married to the tempestuous Lili Damita. She was terrified and she wept. In one scene, Davis was required to give Flynn a light slap.
Embarrassed, Flynn confronted Davis in her dressing room. She quickly let Flynn know what was up. A rattled Flynn, his ego and face bruised, backed out slowly and went to his dressing room, where he promptly threw up. He transfixed me with a hard stare. I started to pass on, but he straightened up a bit and cocked his left eyebrow…. One night, Flynn asked him to stop peeing out the window since it had removed all the varnish.
His eyes were closed. He looked puffed, white, bloodless…. I let out a delirious scream. He was also a braggart who constantly advertised his sexual prowess and peccadilloes. He was charged with two counts of statutory rape involving two year-old girls. While he admitted to a consensual encounter with accuser Peggy Satterlee, he claimed to barely know accuser Betty Hansen.
The trial was a media sensation, and Flynn became a national joke—and an even bigger sex symbol. Satterlee testified that Flynn kept his shoes on during their encounter, a perfect joke, since his film They Died with Their Boots On had just been released. 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 in which he was enrolled. In his late teens he set out to find gold, but instead found a series See full bio ». Born: June 20 , in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Filmography by Job Trailers and Videos.
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