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 time. It was another big hit. He played Gentleman Jim Corbett in Walsh's "Gentleman Jim" (1942), a popular boxing movie. During filming Flynn had a heart attack, but he recovered. It was the third Errol Flynn movie to gross at least $2 million for Warner Bros. in 1942, according to "Variety". Another hit was "Edge of Darkness" (1943) which had a box office gross of $2.3 million in the US making it Warner Bros. 8th biggest movie of the year and one in which Flynn played a Norwegian resistance fighter for director Lewis Milestone. He had a cameo in Warners'