There Was More To Errol Flynn Than You Probably Know

Slave trader, murderer, Nazi spy? Not exactly the legacy you want to leave behind as one of America's greatest action heroes. Find out how everyone's favorite "Robin Hood" of Hollywood was up to no good.
#ErrolFlynn #Actor #GoldenAge
Wicked, wicked ways | 0:00
Hollywood Icon | 1:45
The Battling Flynns | 2:31
Weekend with Barry | 3:31
Unfit for service | 4:21
Party House | 5:37
In like Flynn | 6:12
The first sex scandal | 6:58
The scandals continue | 8:04
Depression and addiction | 8:47
A Nazi spy | 10:06
The final curtain | 11:03
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[@GrungeHQ]

What is your take on Errol Flynn?

[@aprilgosa5779]

18 is legal age

[@DemonSermon]

Uncouth

[@Maxi17674]

He’s my uncle

[@user-br3bw7wr2l]

My Wicked, Wicked Ways was ghostwritten by Earl Conrad. Flynn’s 15 year old girlfriend at the time of his death was controversial, but in a different context to it is now.

[@billleyland128]

The Nazi spy claim, originally made by a mediocre author and Flynn Hater called Charles Higham in his ludicrous book, ''Errol Flynn, The Untold Story,'' was later completely debunked by Flynn buff and friend Tony Thomas in his brilliant work, ''Errol Flynn, the Spy Who Never Was.'' Flynn was a highly complex and intelligent man who, due to his amazing good looks and riveting personality, never had to strive too hard for anything, everything came easy for him. He lived his own life and wrung every ounce of pleasure from it he could. For a deeper insight into his true personality, read ''Errol Flynn, a Memoir,'' by Earl Conrad who spent many months with Flynn ghost-writing his best-selling autobiography, ''My Wicked Wicked Ways.''

[@pamelasmith2388]

All Errol Flynn s so called flaws make him all the more complex and so very compelling . Not only a good actor ,he fenced ,rode horses ,boxed ,danced ,sang ,wrote , captained ships and lived his life to the full .Certainly not a shallow man ,he knew how to enjoy life .He was so full of drive and a passion for life ,dispite how incredibly damaged his internal organs were . What life force energy ! What a man !

[@metacosmos]

we are all filled with envy at such adventurous life.

[@johnzeszut3170]

You don't see guys like this too much no more. He was indeed a great actor and real life man of adventure.

[@MB-vu3ow]

Thank you for this video about Errol Flynn, whose charm has never been surpassed. His book was a good read, and David Niven’s book “The Moon’s a Balloon” is a gem.

[@josebetancourt4575]

He was an icon. The best actor of all times. All his films are brilliant and powerfull.

[@barbjohnson9379]

He was a real looker

[@ernastraka3572]

I will keep my memories of him and his movies like how I remember. He was a great actor . His private lives was his own life. I am no judge.

[@errol-ih4jy]

FLYNN, WE WILL NEVER SEE HIS LIKE AGAIN, AH THE DAYS OF FLYNN.

[@YamiChampu]

Whoever's reading this, i pray that whatever you're going through gets better and whatever you're struggling with or worrying about is going to be fine and that everyone has a fantastic day! Amen

[@ElizaHamilton1780]

Why don’t you stop telling fairy tales? Things are horrible on this planet. We have at least one war happening overseas. We have traitors everywhere in the US, and people talking more and more about a civil war. And YOU want to claim the world is a happy, wonderful place, because YOU say so? Get out. Take your weak little fairy tales and get out.

[@dalelerette206]

That is very kind of you. Thank you. And I also pray that whatever you're going through gets better and whatever you're struggling with or worrying about is going to be fine and that everyone has a fantastic day! Amen💝

[@Olkv3D]

No you don't.

[@thesame4076]

One of my favorite movies is "My Favorite Year". I like to think it was a biopic of Errol.

[@elvisobsessor]

love that movie!

[@JSB1882]

Yup - It was based on when Mel Brooks was a writer on the "Your Show of Shows " with Sid Caesar. Brooks' job was to keep Errol Flynn sober before they shot the show.

[@michaelkupchik3974]

He was no Nazi spy - read the book " the spy who never was "

[@vernpascal1531]

That's true. Almost all the greats had some character flaw, Gable and Wayne were great,but chainsmokers and functioning Alcoholics for example, so except Jimmy StewartJames Cagney and a few other notables , so all you have are the films. It seems prissy and small minded. As some 18 year old Joe Blow Nerd who has never done anything much except pull his pud in Poughkeepsie, is going to judge Errol Flynn, and act like I know exactly how this guy was.

[@user-jf7xp8fk1b]

There were about 8 books written that disproved the Nazi alligations.

[@tristanalleman5015]

He's a beautiful man great actor and legend. Mistakes or not. He's my great great great uncle

[@befhip]

Wow! He will always be my favorite actor!

[@Lulu-qi1um]

Great great great?? He died in like 1960

[@mischr13]

@@Lulu-qi1um people often mistake grand uncle for great uncle, so he was probably their great uncle

[@nicomurder]

You and me both, and many others i suspect

[@tristanalleman5015]

@@nicomurder my great grandmother was florance flynn not sure if anyone could help the timeline

[@MB-vu3ow]

Flynn was a gorgeous, reckless charmer who lived his short life to the fullest.

[@cathypatman1224]

Despite his faults as a Human Being, he was a really good Actor. I have alot of His movies, to me they have nothing to do with his private life. There are plenty of other male movie stars that acted like male tom cats and drunks some even worse. 🎥🎞️🎬🎥

[@Yeahthatshowifeel]

Yes I loved his movies as well! I discovered his movies about 7 years ago. I saw him in a Bette Davis movie and I just thought he was very handsome so I bought his movies🤣

[@lesliefitzgerald2354]

The old Hollywood studio system got off all kinds of low lifes. I suspect something similar still goes on today...

[@angelaholmes8888]

Sadly true there are still low lifes in the industry

[@AndI0td763]

@@angelaholmes8888 There’s lowlifes everywhere.

[@maureentuohy8672]

It’s so easy to slander someone when they are dead. I don’t know if any of this is true or if non of it is. All I know of Mr. Flynn is what I see on the screen and that I like very much. The rest doesn’t matter.

[@daveslave7858]

cool guy

[@CFAshow5359]

i’m sure his mother’s abusiveness had a profoundly harmful effect on him, very sad.

[@KarmicSalt]

his mother wasn't abusive she was exasperated

[@CFAshow5359]

@@KarmicSalt no, she was abusive. locking your child in a storeroom for two days? beating him regularly? calling him names? smh.

[@manuelkong10]

@@CFAshow5359 THANK YOU....EXACTLY...I also wonder if he was molested at an early age

[@nenabunena]

I have to wonder about that, when I think of her and little flynn, I always think of little Damien and his mother

[@HenriHattar]

He was Australian - and none of it was embelished and he didnt run away at 7 at all.

[@alg11297]

The term "In Like Flynn" came about after he beat the criminal charges on statutory rape. You were "in" in that you were lucky enough to beat the rap.

[@mischr13]

that's horrifying

[@user-jf7xp8fk1b]

He didn't check id's

[@michaelbishop9157]

that's just not true

[@alg11297]

@@michaelbishop9157 do tell

[@ahorsethatisnt3683]

His swashbuckling roles seemed so sincere I thought he was a hero

[@TOCC50]

No condoms back them?

[@vernpascal1531]

People don't know him so why judge him? He wasn't the same guy after the Rape Trial when he became a full on Alcoholic and Drug Addict. Though he seemed pretty pleasant most of the time as a character.. Most of us would want to be dead if you drank as much as him. In his prime there was no one more handsome, more interesting and so forth.

[@Olkv3D]

Eyyy, Smarmy-Guy is back.

[@daveslave7858]

lol smarmy

[@Olkv3D]

@@daveslave7858 hahaa It's a perfectly cromulent word.

[@JSB1882]

Flynn even stated that his book, "My Wicked, Wicked Ways": was all made up as a joke. I love that this man is so outrageously portrayed. This man lived a life that I bet a lot of men wish they could live even dying by 50. Barrymore lived the same lifestyle - but he made it to 60. That Barrymore story is so repeated but not at all true. His best friend, Gene Fowler and his son, Will, spent all night at Pierce Bros Funeral home. "In Like Flynn" came to be after the rape trial. The meaning was more about being against the odds you win - not about females in general.

[@metacosmos]

James HUnt lived the same kind of life at the 70's and died at 45.

[@michaelbishop9157]

One of the greatest ever Australians but never makes any list

[@willwade8050]

Not mentioned in the video... Flynn received many of his early swashbuckling roles because he was basically a bad ass master sword fighter

[@mariocisneros911]

No he wasn't. He was amateur.

[@neilschmid4991]

He was taught how to sword fight from Basil Rathbone.

[@karlcarlysle3578]

He was a news reporter, a boxer, a slave trader a photographer. I don't agree with all that he did but he was a real person

[@simban00]

Back in the day Hollywood tired the best people in each field, Flynn was taught by the best swords men and he was taught archery by the best Archer of the day. Is teachers said you was absolutely amazing very skilled. This is why Robin Hood up until the Star Wars movies was considered the best ever created in Hollywood

[@user-jf7xp8fk1b]

No,he wasnt.

[@thegingergyrl455]

My Mom thought he was very handsome but a scoundrel. So she never really liked him. We did watch his movies when I was growing up though.

[@Olkv3D]

Aren't all scoundrels, though?

[@TheAutisticEducator]

He was expelled from my school for having an affair with one of the school maids. They now say it was for theft, but it wasn't.

[@Olkv3D]

Theft of the heart.

[@TheAutisticEducator]

@@Olkv3D 🤣

[@Olkv3D]

@@TheAutisticEducator 😝

[@Spook2431NYC]

Making unverified accusations against individual decreased & unable 2 defend themselves..so brave😡😊

[@metacosmos]

he was expelled from many places for f... with someone. Everybody wanted him at the bed.

[@leesashriber5097]

WOW!!! 😳 Flynn was a mess! It's amazing how I love old Hollywood and when you learn about the behind the scenes drama, it lowers my opinion of a great actor.

[@WVgirl1959]

Many were like that but the studios covered it up. But those were the ones that wouldn't follow the studios direction on how they should act.

[@KarmicSalt]

don't see why it would lower your opinion. He was true to himself and acknowledged who he was in a world full of fakes.

[@frankjackal]

You are an absolute moron and that's why you will never amount to anything.

[@acbikeatgmaildotcom]

read his autobiography for a more human account, it's an amazing book and you can read a lot between the lines.

[@johnbaugh2437]

He was shameless. Wow!

[@dwogilvie_aka_wallythecrow]

Was he a US citizen? Why would he be in the US armed forces if he was Australian?

[@evilcat1234]

He obtained citizenship in 1942. So had dual citizenship

[@bluejay9509]

He loved Jamaica .

[@HeardItOnTheX]

He got his citizenship in the US because of the Sedition Act in the USA not allowing ships longer than 100ft to be owned by foreign nationals. He had tuberculosis, venereal disease and an enlarged heart when he got called up in the 1940's. He was pushed by Jack Warner to do public service announcements and support the war effort via the studio, whilst stateside to keep the bad press away (or white feathers out of their mail room)

[@nenabunena]

​@HeardItOnTheX he had malaria as well and suffered attacks yearly, sometimes even 2x a year

[@firstname__lastname]

Did my dude dye his hair a bit darker?? 😍😍

[@Olkv3D]

Oh, so, now he's yours, is he? 😝

[@user-jf7xp8fk1b]

Mostly exaggeratex bullshit. Why say the good things he did were embellished,but highlight the bad.

[@angelusumbrae]

For anyone who's heard the old phrase "in like Flynn", if you stop and consider it, what did you think that meant? Hint: it does NOT mean anything good. Addendum: If you STILL don't know what I am getting at, check out the rest of the comment section for the answer.

[@chris55529]

First!

[@KarmicSalt]

so what? If you think that is an achievement, you live a pathetic life.

[@chris55529]

@@KarmicSalt I could say the same thing about you, and here's why: my comment, which was meant for people who actually have a sense of humor, is at least THREE MONTHS old. It's like, welcome to the past, dude.

[@avijafar7057]

Charlie cheen

[@susiek.johnson3923]

All true, today he would be a sexual preditor. I don't know why he thought to be attractive

[@metacosmos]

thousands of women wanted to bed with him.

[@anthonywest2989]

Quite a tragic life, ruined by addiction, could have been so different.

[@metacosmos]

yes, he could have died at 100 years old absolutely wrecked.

[@giselamarch1994]

You do a lot of alleging.

[@MegaJackpinesavage]

Tell me Alec Baldwin isn't a dead-ringer for Errol Flynn...

[@hatch1892]

not even close

[@nenabunena]

Lol you're blind

[@MaureenDeVries-wd9mh]

I would think Kevin Kline is more of a likeness to E F.

[@kerstin.jitschin5861]

Didn’t ever like him thanks for new info 🍃🍂🍁 autumn has taken over,what a mess,don’t like it here

[@BeesWaxMinder]

Why? Whereabouts are you?!

[@kerstin.jitschin5861]

@@BeesWaxMinder Berlin

[@Olkv3D]

@@kerstin.jitschin5861 Oregon?

[@kerstin.jitschin5861]

@@Olkv3D no Germany, blessings 🌟

[@Olkv3D]

@@kerstin.jitschin5861 ah. I am a jelly donut. 🙂

[@user-xd8pj2mm4t]

Oh BS, could not have been a slave trader, everyone was a drunk back then

[@nenabunena]

Read his book My Wicked Wicked ways, never out of print, always a best seller

[@ProudCanadian1959]

ABCDEF- American Boys Club for the Defense of Errol Flynn.