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
The Sea Hawk (1940 film) set parsimonious Queen Bess's teeth on edge, constructed of the most tried-&-true cinema materials available, "The Sea Hawk" is a handsome, shipshape picture. To Irish [sic] Cinemactor Errol Flynn, it gives the best swashbuckling role he has had since Captain Blood. For Hungarian Director Michael Curtiz, who took Flynn from bit-player ranks to make "Captain Blood" and has made nine pictures with him since, it should prove a high point in their profitable relationship." The film had been in planning since Errol Flynn's success in the swashbuckler epic Captain Blood.According to Warner Bros records, the film was Warners most expensive