The Hollywood Greats - Errol Flynn - BBC2 - Saturday 12th May 1979

[@immaterialimmaterial5195]

Do also read 'My Wicked Wicked Ways' by Errol. It's a fantastic and superbly written autobiography. Love Barry Norman's 'Hollywood Greats' series.

[@KirstenVerenice]

He was greater than life...he would not fit in it so he escaped in a unique style like he always did...RIP ❤❤❤

[@marknewton6984]

He knew how to live! 😎

[@Paragon_Reason]

​@@marknewton6984 I want to have liked him but when the friends said not to mention anything about Joe... And the first thing he does to say "he said not to mention Joe".... I knew I wouldn't like him

[@elvisobsessor]

Errol is loved and remembered!

[@MOGGS1942]

' Captain Blood '; ' The Sea Hawk ', and ' The Adventures of Robin Hood '. Three classic swashbuckling adventures. Throw in the odd Western, 'Dodge City '. Wonderful stuff. I have the DVD's of the above, and whilst I rarely watch them nowadays, it's comforting to know that the great man is close by, sitting patiently in my collection, just waiting for me to call upon him to entertain me as he did when I was a young lad in my local cinema. We will never see his like again. It was an honour to have lived in the world he occupied so magnificently.

[@DavidBirchphoto1.]

Very well said, my dad loves Errol Flynn. He had the vhs collection, we used to watch adventures of Robin Hood a lot when I was a kid. As I’ve gotten older I really appreciate what a masterpiece the film is. I honestly feel he’s very underrated as an actor he had a lot of charisma and charm.

[@PaulA-sy1xl]

So great to see this again I remember seeing this programme the first time it was broadcast in August 1977 on BBC1

[@barbaraflores3506]

A life long favorite, of mine! ❤🌹😀👍🇺🇸

[@allisonrich5061]

I inherited my Errol Flynn crash from my mother who named me after the heroine of The Master of Ballantrae in which he starred. We used to watch his movies together all the time. He is still. to my mind, of the most beautiful men to have walked the earth. He was certainly a complicated man but you cannot say that he didn't live his life. And what a life he had.

[@criticalgrower]

I find your comment very positive nice and interesting. I ve Heard about parties going on with punks in the 80 s in his mansion and they brought me here, apparently this man was a literal legend and there are no more men like him neither women like those in his times

[@user-mp8tc2rr4o]

My all time favourite! Loved him for over forty years❤

[@sking5626]

Errol Flynn was an admirable figure, a tradic figure, an underated actor. Flynn had the ability to be anything he wanted, sportsman, writer, statesman. His problem was he loved booze women and adventures too much. Rest in peace sweet prince. Stephen King.

[@paulhiggins1577]

Stephen King?

[@Halotest100]

I think Errol Flynn is everything we love in our hero's. Good-looking, brave, charismatic, funny, flawed and tragic. He certainly lived life on his terms and crammed so much into those short 50 years. It was great to hear the interviews from the people who knew him best. David Niven's book "The Moon is a balloon" has some great stories about Errol Flynn. It is a great read.

[@stephenoliver1437]

Bless you Errol lived to the full

[@stephaniestanley8041]

This is a tremendous documentary ❤

[@nicolettapasquini6614]

Che bello Hollywood poi Errol Flynn magico ❤❤

[@criticalgrower]

Lo ho scoperto solo adesso, era un uomo di altri tempi. Vorrei ci fossero più italiani a capire e parlare inglese!❤bless you

[@paulnicolosi4792]

I met a beautiful, older, red headed woman, while working on a cruise ship. She told me that Flynn would follow her in his Packard, as she walked home from Hollywood High School, trying to get her attention…

[@Huckster-tj9if]

This a VHS the days when they would say anything about the dearly departed

[@josebetancourt4575]

Errol Flynn was the best actor of all times.

[@annamaj2943]

Grande Errol ❤

[@criticalgrower]

Bravissimo davvero . Meno male che qualcuno altro la capisce la lingua inglese

[@DaniloWings]

What a life!

[@JEAN-pm9lg]

I think he was a fine actor

[@lilianamariamaiola3376]

Superb Errol

[@user-br3bw7wr2l]

Legend. Enough said.

[@keithlewis5050]

In like flynn.

[@owengreene382]

Why on earth did Errol mess up his wonerful life. We will never know,. Errol never did let anyone into his soul, that haunted him until he died from a hearth attack at 49--8 months. I was brought up watching Erroll's cowboy films; and wished i were him, and his drinking partner. The man had everything. Tall good looking, who could charm the birds of a tree, but flip the coin, he was deeply flawed. He had a madness for life as if he had one year to live. Unfortunately, our bodies are not built to withstand that amount of abuse.

[@marknewton6984]

We all go sometime!😎

[@Mikado8848]

Whoever this Norman is, you all are right in that he is snipe-y...but HE is right that Errol has the last laugh. We're still talking about Flynn, but we're only talking of Norman BECAUSE of Flynn.

[@marknewton6984]

Flynn had what it takes!😮

[@criticalgrower]

I look at the old ladies and imagine them throwing litterqlly at him like everyone says. I m just curious about those parties of punks in his estate in Hollywood in the 80s one LA punk gang used to hang in there and make cool parties

[@paulhiggins1577]

Highly intelligent, got bored very easily so did everything in excess

[@AndI0td763]

You don’t get up to the things he did just because you’re “bored.” He did those things because he enjoyed doing them, made him feel good and probably liked feeling powerful from it all. He was a hedonist, among other things.

[@marknewton6984]

One of a kind! 😎

[@joyrawlings752]

I would watch Hollywood Great about Errol Flynn. I am very disappointed and frustration because all Hollywood Greats of movie stars are not in English subtitles for the Deaf. I would like to read the subtitles on them..

[@Eire_Go_Deo]

I really enjoyed this (though I’ve never liked Barry Norman’s thinly-veiled disparaging remarks). He always seemed bitter. Perhaps he was a film critic because he could never aspire to the heights that handsome, hell raising men like Flynn did??

[@bilkomax]

Norman was definitely very salty towards Flynn here

[@drtslim]

I definitely agree. I think that it’s perfectly (and appropriate)fine to acknowledge his flaws; but the constant jabs definitely seemed to be in bad taste.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

​@@drtslim He was even worse in the Joan Crawford documentary!

[@user-bp3ev8of7s]

My parents named me errol d flynn I was born in Greensburg Pennsylvania in 1960.