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 $1.33 million. The film had a much higher box office gross, with $1.454 million from the US and $1.928 million from overseas, making it Warner Brothers #1 hit of 1936. For a change of pace, Warners put him in a medical melodrama, "Green Light" (1937), playing a crusading doctor, a role originally intended for Leslie Howard. He then made another swashbuckler, replacing Patric Knowles in what was essentially a supporting role in "The Prince and the Pauper" (1937). He appeared opposite Kay Francis in "Another Dawn" (1937), a melodrama set in a British colony. Warners then gave Flynn his first