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 she told an interviewer, "and I admire his honesty, because he's absolutely right." Years later, however, de Havilland recounted that during a private screening of "Elizabeth and Essex", an astounded Davis exclaimed, "Damn it! The man "could" act!" Warners put Flynn in another Western, "Virginia City" (1940), a follow up to "Dodge City", which was very popular, making a profit of just under one million dollars. He then made another swashbuckler from a Sabatini novel, "The Sea Hawk" (1940), which had been planned since 1936. It was another hit with a profit of $977,000 on a budget of $1.7 million.