Errol Flynn Blood" (1935), Major Geoffrey Vickers in "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1936), as well as a number of Westerns, such as "Dodge City" (1939), "Santa Fe Trail" (1940), and "San Antonio" (1945). Errol Leslie Flynn was born on 20 June 1909 in Battery Point, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. His father, Theodore Thomson Flynn, was a lecturer (1909) and later professor (1911) of biology at the University of Tasmania. His mother was born Lily Mary Young, but shortly after marrying Theodore at St John's Church of England, Birchgrove, Sydney, on 23 January 1909, she changed her first name
Arts in Australia Hollywood. In 1933, "In the Wake of the Bounty" was directed by Charles Chauvel, who cast Tasmanian-born Errol Flynn as the leading actor. Flynn went on to a celebrated career in Hollywood. Chauvel directed a number of successful Australian films, the last being 1955's "Jedda", which was notable for being the first Australian film to be shot in colour, and the first to feature Aboriginal actors in lead roles and to be entered at the Cannes Film Festival. It was not until 2006 and Rolf de Heer's "Ten Canoes" that a major feature-length drama was shot in an indigenous language.