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 However, it was not a success and Thomson Productions made no more movies. In 1943, Flynn earned $175,000. With Walsh he made "Objective, Burma!" in 1944, released in 1945, a war film set during the Burma Campaign. Although popular, it was withdrawn in Britain after protests that the role played by British troops was not given sufficient credit. A Western, "San Antonio" (1945), was also very popular grossing $3.553 million in the US and was Warner Bros. 3rd biggest hit of the year. Flynn tried comedy again with "Never Say Goodbye" (1946), a comedy of remarriage opposite Eleanor Parker, but