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 between New Guinea and Sydney. In January 1931, Flynn became engaged to Naomi Campbell-Dibbs, the youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs R Campbell-Dibbs of Temora and Bowral NSW. They did not marry. Australian filmmaker Charles Chauvel was making a film about the Mutiny on the Bounty, "In the Wake of the Bounty" (1933), a combination of dramatic re-enactments of the mutiny and a documentary on present-day Pitcairn Island. Chauvel was looking for someone to play the role of Fletcher Christian. There are different stories how Errol Flynn was cast. According to one, Chauvel saw his picture in an article about