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
Errol Flynn but it was not a success. Far more popular was the military drama, "Dive Bomber" (1941); this was his last film with Curtiz. Flynn started a new long-term relationship with a director when teamed with Raoul Walsh in "They Died with Their Boots On" (1942), a biopic of George Armstrong Custer. His co-star was de Havilland in this, the last of twelve movies they made together. The movie was one of the biggest hits of 1942. It grossed $2.55 million in the US alone, making it Warner Bros. second biggest hit of the year. Flynn became a naturalised American citizen