Errol Flynn

Errol Flynn was the swashbuckling fantasy made flesh — the guy who made every sword fight look effortless and every love scene feel inevitable. Born in Tasmania of all places, he somehow became the defining image of Hollywood adventure in the 1930s and 40s, swinging through Captain Blood and The Adventures of Robin Hood with a grin that suggested he was having more fun than anyone else on the planet. His chemistry with Olivia de Havilland was genuine magic, and honestly those films hold up. Off screen he was a spectacular mess — the womanizing, the drinking, the scandals — but there's something almost mythological about how completely he lived, burning out at just 50. The phrase "in like Flynn" exists because of this man. That's a legacy.

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Name (English)

Errol Flynn

Name (Japanese)

エロール・フリン

Reading

えろーる・ふりん

Born

June 20, 1909 – October 14, 1959

Origin

Battery Point, Tasmania, Australia

Height

186 cm

Occupation

actor / character actor / screenwriter / film actor / film director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rooster

Awards & achievements

• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Official sitehttps://www.errolflynn.net
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol%20Flynn
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93188

Tags

• Tasmania
• actor
• character actor
• screenwriter

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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