Poor Errol, I think if you cut through all the legend and folklore he was actually a stand up guy , I read his autobiography which he penned himself, "my wicked wicked ways",and was amazed at his candid self depreciating attitude, he displayed practically no ego in his account of his life in hollywood and seemed very realistic about the whole thing. He suffered acute back pain most of his adult life due to injury and that got him hooked on morphine washed down with alcohol, he had some serious addiction problems which led to his poor health and early demise, such a great pity he died at 50, his body just couldn't take it anymore.
@@vicgogan5379 And the drugs and the smoking,but as David Niven said" he was an incredible man,but not an admirable one". Between 1935 and '45 he was as great as anyone ever on the silver screen. All those greats Spencer Tracy,Robert Taylor, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, Gary Cooper were either Alcoholics and/or chain smokers took 25-30 years off their lives.
Flynn was a person born out of any time, he wouldn't have lived comfortably in whatever age he had been born, restless spirits, especially the ones gifted with looks and intelligence are obviously going to struggle with the morals and restrictions placed upon them by others in positions of either religious or secular power, rebellion brings with it opposition, and results in the ultimate destruction of the rebel, unfortunately.
nope, he would have been in jail for life these times. He liked his girls young. Very young. As in jailbait. He was still married when he died. His wife didn't want a gravestone for him. She said: "I do not want anything of this bast..... out here now that he's gone." His children paid for a gravestone decades later.
Most of his psychological problems stemmed from the abandonment of his parents at a very young age...they didn't spend time with him ..they just sent him money and left him on his own ...parental absence causes a lot of inner security problems. He probably secretively felt unwanted. That's my take
Thank You for this, Errol is truly one of the finest actors we've ever had in American cinema, Its such a shame that his brilliant work and truly under appreciated acting talents have been overshadowed. Errol was the epitome of a gifted performer a true legend among legends. They don't make them like that anymore which is truly a pity.
A 100% I remember watching some of his films in my earliest years. A 100 years from now even, I dare say they will stand up as timeless classics. Albeit of that era, it’s possible to point to several other examples of big name stars, Errol Flynn exuded a softly spoken strength and integrity, lacking in e.g. John Wayne (opposites in many ways), epitomising gentlemanly conduct. Whatever his detractors say, and they are tripping over themselves to do so, I can’t help but feel part of his straight shooting, selflessness and value of life in the true sense, is the experience of dealing with the pain referred to, which troubled him for the better part of his life. 50 years is too young, but conversely may be said to reflect the severity of the pain he suffered, as much as the deleterious effects of his efforts to mitigate it.
Interesting video, He certainly lived a full life in those 50 years! I love the 1938 Robin Hood, Errol's co-star was Olivia de Havilland. They made 8 films together and she is still going strong at 103 years of age!
What a nice and refreshing way to tell the story of Errol's final day. Not a documentary or a report, instead it was presented by an ordinary person telling a simple story as if they were chatting with just me over a coffee. Unique and very well done! Thank you.
Eroll flynn an original legend He can play any role swashbuckling western and everything Girls just throw to him His bio the wicked wicked ways is Truely classic and superb Drinking destroyed his life
@@jcvancouver my other favorite include Charge Of The Light Brigade, Captain Blood. Pro Football Hall of Fame member John McNally got the nickname Blood after watching that classic film.
His auto biography, "My wicked wicked ways" is a great read! Action packed with his amazing travels and experiences in life. And most surprising are his words of wisdom that will help you survuve the storms in your life and help you get back on top to carry on to sunny days again!
Well everyone just know the one side of the deboniar,swash buckling and dashing Hollywood star from Tasmania,Australia Errol Flynn(1909-1959). But there is other side of which whom his fans does not really know much. According to his father,Errol Flynn was a highly intelligent and intuitive man.He had this undying quest and thirst for knowledge.He would spend hours reading and in his last years in the 1950s kept an account of his daily life in a diary. This was the true Errol Flynn we do not know.A man of knowledge.
In this respect Errol was very much like his father, but his father lacked the vim and vinegar of Errol so perhaps his personality was more like his mother.
Errol Flynn was born the same year as my Nonna (great-grandmother.) She immigrated here from Italy in 1933. She came here with my Nonno (grandfather) when he was just 5 years old at the time. My Nonna lived to be 97 years old and was a HUGE Errol Flynn fan. She always said she learned how to speak English by watching his movies. It's funny because she actually had an Italian-Australian accent while living here in America. 😆
He was my paternal grandmother's favorite actor. My father's, and also mine, middle name is Errol because of that. My favorite movies that he made are "The Adventures of Robin Hood" and "Gentleman Jim". Thank you for posting this.
@@jcvancouver Actually, the name here is after my all-time favorite baseball player, Carl Yastrzemski. He was named team captain by his manager before the 1967 baseball season and he wore number 8 on his uniform. Thus "captaincarl8". My actual first name is Robert. Thanks again for the video, Jean Claude.
But the extras hated him.One of them had a fist fight with him with Errol Flynn finally had his opponent landed flat on his back.Not just an actor but Errol could fight as well in real life.
@@dwainwilson5080 it was the late David Niven who had elaborated that in his book "Bring On the Empty Horses."If anyone who was that closed to Errol Flynn and knew him well it would be Niven. Both were born in the same year 1909 and they shared quarters together in their early Hollywood careers. As Niven once too was an extra,he had knew some of the extras who had an intensed dislike for Errol Flynn.God only knows why they disliked him. There was this extra a gorilla of a man as mentioned by Niven in his book BOTEH.There was a huge roar of a laughter when Flynn tried to get on to his horse but he felled and landed on his back.Flynn then replied,"Which son of you bitches did that?"."Then a burly man akin to a gorilla stepped in and said,"I did,and do you want to make something of it?".Flynn then replied back,"Get off your horse." There after there was a fist fight with that huge man landed flat on his back."After that the extras grew to love Flynn even more.
@@flamingwarrior2589 by the way who was that actor and I would very much like to know. But we cannot denied that Errol Flynn was the first to open the doors for many Australian actors and actresses into Hollywood.He was indeed the forerunner.If not for Errol Flynn actors and actors such Nicole Kidman and Russel Crowe would not have won their Oscars.
Frank Paya I loved Max Baer, a great bloke...misrepresented in the film with Russel Crowe. Watched a lot of TH-cam videos about him, he had character and wit!
Dirk Diggler Hey it was great you met them, I loved the Beverly Hillbillies as a kid. We were from a rural part if England and were a bit like the Clamperts I think lol 😊😄 Max Baer was I think one if a kind, that win over Max Schmeling was so important for the World then. May he be in heaven and receive his just glory there.
Just think his autopsy showed to he had the body of a 75 year old even he was he only 50 after he died of a massive heart attack. Flynn was a heavy drinker especially of vodka which would consume 2-3 quarts a day and was a chain smoker for to years. His autopsy showed his liver was so badly damaged from drinking he would have only lived another 9-12 months had he not died of heart attack.
Thank you Mike for all of your positive and knowledgeable contributions to Errol's memory and my vlog. Great people such as yourself inspire me to make more vlogs. I appreciate you.
I personally believe he was ready to go his movie career was over his looks had now gone he had no money his Hollywood friends disappeared the party was over and there was nowhere to go Hollywood had moved on legends never die they just move on...
I was so obsessed with Errol I just can't believe his true to life swashbuckling days in Papau New Guinea. I went to Tasmania and sought out all his points of interest. Went to the hospital ( the only one in Hobart) he was delivered. It's a hotel for seniors today. His childhood home where the current owner posted photos near entrance of the young Errol playing. The black sandy beach where his mom taught him to swim. It's in his book btw. There's a memorial erected there for Errol but goodness easily missed! The National theatre where he saw his first movie in 1915 with his mom. Outside this theatre is his name on the sidewalk. Errol never went back to Tasmania after he left! I'm always curious how he lost his accent. Thanx for this video
Nothing shocking about the autopsy photo., He looked the same when he was alive. My mother used to have an expression she'd say frequently. "In and out like Flynn" Back then I didn't understand the origin of that saying.
Jean Claude Van Couver fantastic video. I live a short distance away from the place he was born. The old Hobart maternity hospital 82 Hampden rd in Battery point Hobart. You can get a good look at the building on google earths street view. It’s the 2 story building with the arch’s over the top story veranda. 👍
Jean Claude Van Couver just as a matter of interest “ Bishopscourt” is diagonally across from on my place on Antill st ( about 400 meters from Hampden Rd) and is were Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery spent his childhood until he left aged 14.
Yeah! Well, from the beginning JMV was seriously warring with half of his own inner self. Such battling, with it's cobbled learned Heterocentristic rules, is taught to those males of us that do not escape it, and it is NEVER to be won, only lost; posturing, appearances and sports bluster to-the-contrary, notwithstanding. It is so, dear Jacqueline, that Nature's Creator demonstrates through Her what is to be, and not. She commands, we do not. The substitution of grotesquely fantasized book-bound mysticism just ain't gonna cut it; torment of one form or a hundred others only promising. Jan Michael Vincent's spectacular case stands as a tragic, most vivid example of that Losing Game coming to it's predicted end. (Appearances ARE 'telling.') . : .
@Mookie Spindlehurst Thank you, M.M., for your response to mine and, complimentary words of peace. It would seem that we are of identical age and so, are 'war babies.' Yes, as you said, Bobby Hackett trumpeter-supreme plus as we might remember too Ray Bloch - "The FLOWER of the musical world!" (who would always display his chrome-dome as accompanied by proper snare-drum licks, when taking his head-bows) and, of course Sammy Spear, he having always some new snazzy outfit for Jackie to comment about such as "Ohhh, you ARE a beautiful one Sammy!" (As paraphrased from rusty memory.) Gees, what characters and days those were. And what else! Dinah Shore and Chevy's, Johnny Ray, Nick Shamus of Giant Felix Chevrolet where "We stock 'em and sell 'em in THOUSANDS!" and very much more of the delightful-like. (If you are in the East, then these I mentioned will not ring many bells - ha!) As for J.M.V., as time progressed it was not kind nor helpful to his ferocious lifetime inner struggle, whatever in actual truth it may have been, most sadly. As I stated too briefly, and sans necessary detailage above, I've my own idea as to just what it was. Way too many of we males suffer terribly on it's clueless heartless account; others not, somehow escaping it. Jan Michael proved unable. I'd not heard about the cats incident. It is not at all surprising to learn-of, cats being great friends and teachers to us, as we are to them conservators and admirers, or should be. (To be briefly candid, wanting not to be of any tease-value - human males seem to require more than what is allowed by human-conceived controlling forces, which themselves seem perverse, just as they charge others of, as projected. Conceptually, as explanations, it is painful in-extremis for many to come to realize what they have lost to time, this being so-particularly in later years. Yes, it having been co-opted from what was so necessary for the achievement of so-longed-for natural balance. As gone without, as according with and to dictated dis-allowance, big trouble is SURE to manifest, and does! This takes many a weird form, masqueraded always from it's actual, ghastly reality. This is what tormented J.M.V. to final death, I believe. That inner self-loathing as taught and learned, simply increased to explosion levels of pressure, his having had precisely ZERO routes for any relief from it, and so . . ."FINI"! This same deeply tragic tormenting story goes on-and-on-and-on, and Heterocentrism* holds the whip-handle or, portions-out the carrots for proper single-way obedience solely. "Comply or else!" - so the heartless fiend commands! However, the young are getting wise fast, and are working their way around that destructive, murderous cultic 'opposites only' perverseness by themselves. By hook-or-by-crook they are, although many do get into trouble by virtue of knowing-not of what better they should and would.) "Divine Architect ..." as a workable euphemism for what cannot be described nor understood on our pathetic little human level of-present, I am just fine with, just as with too say Mother Nature OR Father Nature. (My grandfather was a 32d SRFM, and so I heard much about such things, tho that was admittedly of long ago.) I like very much your Dumas quote. I'll remember it for good use; and I thank you for it. After all that, I do hope that I am not again to be immersed in new hot-water. - J.M. . : . * The actual WORSHIP of reproduction!
Not that it matters, however, the autopsy table shown is not the actual table that was used for Errol Flynn. That table, shown in the pricture, had a bar or rail at the end of the table by his head.
since i was a young boy ERROLwas my favorite,he still is,,i have so many books on him,,out of print,,rare, new,,seen all his movies,,yup,ALL,,own most of them,,,he was for me the top star from the golden age of hollywood,,,,thanks for this,
Errol Flynn was told he was dying one year prior and he knew he was on borrowed time. I believe he went into the room of the doctors house to lie down because he knew he was dying and he didn't want anyone to see him pass. A very sad ending for poor Errol Flynn, ironically the last few lines of his autobiography read... "The second half of the century looms but I don't feel the night coming on"... says it all really. Sadly his son "Sean Flynn" was murdered by the Khmer Rouge in 1970 and his daughter "Arnella" in 1998 of a drug overdose.
@@jcvancouver it seems to me that you know Vancouver well (apart from being an Errol Flynn fan?). May I give you my email address? Maybe we can keep in touch if I come to visit Vancouver. Waiting for your response. Warm regards
I worked for a university in Sydney ,Australia .I worked on properties left to the university veterinary dept by Flynn as a legacy for caring for his dog
I'm English I live in UK. First place I ever visited in Canada was Vancouver yes I liked the city very much ( Stanley Park etc ) is that wooden Bridge still there in Van ? I recall it was named Granby Bridge ( or similar name ? )
Great video of one of my favoutite actors. However, I have seen his sudden report at Vancouver Police Dept and he was DOA in the Burnaby St apartment. I am also aware of the "inappropriate" comments mentioned. He certainly lived a full life! His book " My Wicked Wicked Ways" was very funny and entertaining.
I am a big fan of Errol Flynn, having grown up watching his movies, e.g. The Adventures Of Robin Hood, Captin Blood, The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex, They Died With Their Boots On, etc. I read his biography 'My Wicked, Wicked Ways', which I thought was fantastic. He really was a swashbuckler and a loveable rogue. From Tasmania to Vancouver via Hollywood. RIP Errol! Thank you for the upload, very fascinating.
Errol Flynn was a drinking womanizer, but also a sensitive, creative intellectual. He portrayed men of courage, virtue, and charm. His downfall of course, was alcohol, a tricky toxic substance. But many highly intelligent men fall victim to it because it slows down their minds which are stuck in high speed gear
Great video. Errol was my favorite actor by far. I visited his grave at Forest Lawn Memorial Parks in Glendale, Ca. back in 1995. I also got to see his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
It was eventually confiscated after remaining in dock for several years at a port in the Mediterranean. It is still in use after a major guttting and remodel, somewhere on the Pacific Coast. Some say he was in Vancouver to lease and not sell it, but that he had been keeping it abroad to avoid confiscation by the I.R.S.
Last I heard, his boat, the Zaca, is alive and well and sailing out of Monte Carlo. My middle name is Flynn after my dad's favorite actor. Just watched Prince and the Pauper last night - what an amazing talent he was, never gets enough cred for his acting ability. Allegedly his last words were "I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it".
my uncle lived there and died same hospital same way , errol was collapsing at 45 and he died due to drinking smoking and his athletic heart - watch the film too much too soon
very interesting and informative,thankyou. i feel errols course in life was set at an early age and he lived several lives in hts 50 years, great character and actor. his co-star in his early films olivia de havilland is inher 104th year.
My favourite actor brilliant in all the movies from captain blood, Elizabeth and Essex, sea hawks, robin hood, and Don Juan. SO SAD the way this great actor went.
Even though Errol was a movie star THEY really wouldn't of known HIM reckon somewhere deep inside HIM he was ALWAYS missing and sailing around the seas of where he came from
Ewww...I just read about what was found on Flynn that you couldn't mention in your story (which I greatly enjoyed, btw!) and now I'm a tad traumatized. ☹
"Life with Errol Flynn was never a full moment,"says his last wife Patrice Wymore. For Wymore life with Hollywood's most swashbuckling actor was one of a roller coaster ride and on a fast lane. Even actor David Niven acknowledged that when he met his friend Errol in 1958 he was shocked by the physical and mental change of Errol.Niven said,"His face was puffy and he was no longer the handsome and deboniar actor I had known when we last met in 1946.". Yes,it was an unhealthy lifestyle full with booze,drugs and women that ended Errol Flynn's life at the age of 50 on 14 October 1959.He had died of a heart attack but who cares.Errol Flynn had enjoyed every minute of his life.These were in fact his last words.
I read Flynn's autobiography, "My wicked, Wicked Ways" a couple of years ago and it is worth a read. You glossed over his early adventures in the Pacific Ocean, but it is a wonder he did not die then. You say that Beverly Aadland was 16 years ago, but she is said to be 22 elsewhere with the same photo of them sunbathing at a California pool. Since she was born in 1942 and he died in 1959, I think they wanted to make her older than she was.
![What's My Line? - Errol Flynn; Martin Gabel [panel] (Dec 1, 1957)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/CkE9CGB2Wj0/mqdefault.jpg)
![What's My Line? - Errol Flynn; Martin Gabel [panel] (Dec 1, 1957)](/img/tr.png)
In his prime he was so handsome, he would have been handsome in any time period (you know what I team?). Classic
Poor Errol, I think if you cut through all the legend and folklore he was actually a stand up guy , I read his autobiography which he penned himself, "my wicked wicked ways",and was amazed at his candid self depreciating attitude, he displayed practically no ego in his account of his life in hollywood and seemed very realistic about the whole thing. He suffered acute back pain most of his adult life due to injury and that got him hooked on morphine washed down with alcohol, he had some serious addiction problems which led to his poor health and early demise, such a great pity he died at 50, his body just couldn't take it anymore.
chris mac thanks for watching Chris. 👍🙂
Errol Flynn was a good looking man even in death. ✝️
Very respectfully done. At least Errol Flynn didn't suffer too much.
Thank you kindly my friend. 🇨🇦🙂
Such a sad ending, for such a talented man, still one of my favourite actors of all time.
barrygioportmorien1 thanks for watching Barry. 🙂👍
As a man soweth so he reaps...sadly...He lived larger than his movies 🎥 but the. 🍷 🍸BOOZE
🍺 done him in...May GOD HAVE MERCY ON HIM...
@@vicgogan5379 And the drugs and the smoking,but as David Niven said" he was an incredible man,but not an admirable one". Between 1935 and '45 he was as great as anyone ever on the silver screen. All those greats Spencer Tracy,Robert Taylor, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, Gary Cooper were either Alcoholics and/or chain smokers took 25-30 years off their lives.
He was an awesome actor I love all his movies
Rest In Peace Erol, see you on the other side man.
Good call my friend. 👍
He had everything going for him, and he lived life to the full. His success with women was mega. A true hollywood legend. Died too young.
When you saw him in Robin hood, Captain blood, the sea hawk he was not acting. That smile, personality was Flynn in real life says Olivia his Co star.
Thanks for watching Mike.
Excellent video! Big Errol Flynn fan and I've always been fascinated by his life.
Dennis J thank you Dennis. 🙂👍🇨🇦
Errol Flynn was a person who couldn't exist now. Flynn wasn't an actor he was a legend and a true film star.
Timothy Poulter thanks for watching Timothy. 👍
Flynn was a person born out of any time, he wouldn't have lived comfortably in whatever age he had been born, restless spirits, especially the ones gifted with looks and intelligence are obviously going to struggle with the morals and restrictions placed upon them by others in positions of either religious or secular power, rebellion brings with it opposition, and results in the ultimate destruction of the rebel, unfortunately.
nope, he would have been in jail for life these times. He liked his girls young. Very young. As in jailbait. He was still married when he died. His wife didn't want a gravestone for him. She said: "I do not want anything of this bast..... out here now that he's gone." His children paid for a gravestone decades later.
Most of his psychological problems stemmed from the abandonment of his parents at a very young age...they didn't spend time with him
..they just sent him money and left him on his own ...parental absence causes a lot of inner security problems. He probably secretively felt unwanted. That's my take
they sent him off because he got expelled...he was trouble from the start and said that in his book
What you report doesnt really match up with what is known, He didnt much care for his mom, he was tight with his father.
@@davidmoser3535 it was mentioned in a TV documentary about him
The man makes his life. Or his life is because of the man. Either way, he was an icon
Well said my friend. Thank you for watching. 👍🙂🇨🇦
Thank You for this, Errol is truly one of the finest actors we've ever had in American cinema, Its such a shame that his brilliant work and truly under appreciated acting talents have been overshadowed. Errol was the epitome of a gifted performer a true legend among legends. They don't make them like that anymore which is truly a pity.
Well said Krystal. Thank you for watching. ❤️🇨🇦
Errol was more famous for his personal life.
A 100%
I remember watching some of his films in my earliest years.
A 100 years from now even, I dare say they will stand up as timeless classics.
Albeit of that era, it’s possible to point to several other examples of big name stars, Errol Flynn exuded a softly spoken strength and integrity, lacking in e.g. John Wayne (opposites in many ways), epitomising gentlemanly conduct.
Whatever his detractors say, and they are tripping over themselves to do so, I can’t help but feel part of his straight shooting, selflessness and value of life in the true sense, is the experience of dealing with the pain referred to, which troubled him for the better part of his life. 50 years is too young, but conversely may be said to reflect the severity of the pain he suffered, as much as the deleterious effects of his efforts to mitigate it.
A wonderful look back at Errol's last day, thank you.
Oh wow, the details on Errol's last day that you have shared was most informative! Thanks!
Kathleen Horner thank you Kathleen.
Thank you 🚭🎅💝
So have I... a great book .. he had a real zest for life
Interesting video, He certainly lived a full life in those 50 years!
I love the 1938 Robin Hood, Errol's co-star was Olivia de Havilland.
They made 8 films together and she is still going strong at 103 years of age!
Thanks for watching David.
Olivia has just passed recently!
@@dannatrotter5717 Yeah, heard it on the news, she lived a very long life.
I was 8 when I saw THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON 55 years ago. I've watched all his movies every chance l get since.
What a nice and refreshing way to tell the story of Errol's final day. Not a documentary or a report, instead it was presented by an ordinary person telling a simple story as if they were chatting with just me over a coffee. Unique and very well done! Thank you.
Thank you kindly Jonathan. I appreciate it.
I love Errol Flynn...most brilliant pirat..Jack Sparrow is student.
manuela Esih I agree with you. Thanks for watching Manuela. 🙂🌸🌼🌺
Eroll flynn an original legend He can play any role swashbuckling western and everything Girls just throw to him His bio the wicked wicked ways is Truely classic and superb Drinking destroyed his life
Fabulous video and very well done. R.I.P. Errol Flynn
David Fleming thank you kindly David. 👍
Interesting. My favorite film is Robin Hood from 1938.
He sure made some great ones! Thanks for watching Tony.
@@jcvancouver my other favorite include Charge Of The Light Brigade, Captain Blood. Pro Football Hall of Fame member John McNally got the nickname Blood after watching that classic film.
Love him with Olivia dehavilland!❤
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Frank Denardo mine too
A thing I've always noticed when people mention Errol Flynn, nobody ever remarks what a marvellous speaking voice Errol had.
Alan Kirkby good call Alan. 👍 thanks for watching.
And he DID!!
One of Mr. Flynn's most charming qualities was his VOICE!
You hit the nail on the head! Such a pleasant voice, charming for men and totally seductive for women!
Flynn had a distinctive voice.
Two other actors with distinctive voices come to mind--Richard Basehart and Jack Hawkins.
Nicely done video! Not all sensationalistic, just good information and comfortable delivery. I wish more were like this!
Don Cely thank you kindly Don. 🙂
His auto biography, "My wicked wicked ways" is a great read! Action packed with his amazing travels and experiences in life. And most surprising are his words of wisdom that will help you survuve the storms in your life and help you get back on top to carry on to sunny days again!
Premium Blue thank you for the recommendation my friend. It sure sounds like a great book. 👍
@@jcvancouver Your very welcome.. One of my favorite books for sure!
Even in death Errol Flynn is still a "larger than life" personality, forever young in film.
Dallas DautermanDallas well said Dallas. Thank you for watching. 🙂
Well everyone just know the one side of the deboniar,swash buckling and dashing Hollywood star from Tasmania,Australia Errol Flynn(1909-1959).
But there is other side of which whom his fans does not really know much.
According to his father,Errol Flynn was a highly intelligent and intuitive man.He had this undying quest and thirst for knowledge.He would spend hours reading and in his last years in the 1950s kept an account of his daily life in a diary.
This was the true Errol Flynn we do not know.A man of knowledge.
In this respect Errol was very much like his father, but his father lacked the vim and vinegar of Errol so perhaps his personality was more like his mother.
My favorite actor / personality...Errol would be a star today.
James Hill thanks for watching James. 👍
You are most welcome! I love old fashioned Hollywood with all million beautiful stars!
Thanks for some one loves my comment. He had 10 movies with Olivia De Harvland. Olivia is still living in Paris. She is 102 years old.
Janet Hu 103?
Actually. 104 on July 1st. I check IMDB Daily to Watch over her❤️
Sadly, she passed recently July 26, 2020 at the age of 104 quietly in her sleep.
Errol Flynn was born the same year as my Nonna (great-grandmother.) She immigrated here from Italy in 1933. She came here with my Nonno (grandfather) when he was just 5 years old at the time.
My Nonna lived to be 97 years old and was a HUGE Errol Flynn fan. She always said she learned how to speak English by watching his movies. It's funny because she actually had an Italian-Australian accent while living here in America. 😆
Hollywood´s most Beautiful man.
Thank you for watching my friend.
YES, Beautiful men.
what do you think aboat Clark Cable?
@Shirley Bailey i totally agree. no actor today could compare.
@@tehfrida1234 they resembled each other enough to be brothers.
Finally, we get to see a video with the facts straight 👍🏻 Can you do Howard Hughes next?
Scotch On the Rock thanks for watching friend. Here is my vlog on Mr Hughes. th-cam.com/video/6wE-z_LijQ8/w-d-xo.html
This made me sad I love Errol
He is missed. Thanks for watching my friend.
He was my paternal grandmother's favorite actor. My father's, and also mine, middle name is Errol because of that. My favorite movies that he made are "The Adventures of Robin Hood" and "Gentleman Jim". Thank you for posting this.
That is incredible. What a great name. Thank you for watching Carl Errol.
@@jcvancouver Actually, the name here is after my all-time favorite baseball player, Carl Yastrzemski. He was named team captain by his manager before the 1967 baseball season and he wore number 8 on his uniform. Thus "captaincarl8". My actual first name is Robert. Thanks again for the video, Jean Claude.
@@captaincarl8230 I seem to recall a great Simspsons episode when Bart and Milhouse want a Carl Yastrzemski baseball card.
@@jcvancouver knoll omg
Nice video, well done! Flynn was an original- often imitated, never equaled...
Neo Sturm thank you kindly Neo. 🙂
But the extras hated him.One of them had a fist fight with him with Errol Flynn finally had his opponent landed flat on his back.Not just an actor but Errol could fight as well in real life.
Why did the extras hate him?
@@dwainwilson5080 it was the late David Niven who had elaborated that in his book "Bring On the Empty Horses."If anyone who was that closed to Errol Flynn and knew him well it would be Niven.
Both were born in the same year 1909 and they shared quarters together in their early Hollywood careers.
As Niven once too was an extra,he had knew some of the extras who had an intensed dislike for Errol Flynn.God only knows why they disliked him.
There was this extra a gorilla of a man as mentioned by Niven in his book BOTEH.There was a huge roar of a laughter when Flynn tried to get on to his horse but he felled and landed on his back.Flynn then replied,"Which son of you bitches did that?"."Then a burly man akin to a gorilla stepped in and said,"I did,and do you want to make something of it?".Flynn then replied back,"Get off your horse."
There after there was a fist fight with that huge man landed flat on his back."After that the extras grew to love Flynn even more.
And their was an actor also who Flynn challenged and Flynn ended up on his back.
@@flamingwarrior2589 by the way who was that actor and I would very much like to know.
But we cannot denied that Errol Flynn was the first to open the doors for many Australian actors and actresses into Hollywood.He was indeed the forerunner.If not for Errol Flynn actors and actors such Nicole Kidman and Russel Crowe would not have won their Oscars.
@@yiseng4602 Or Paul Hogan.
Very interesting, a true legend.
Thank you kindly Robert.
Could you do one about Max Baer sr? He died a month-and-a-half after Errol Flynn, also at 50 years old, and of a heart attack .
Frank Paya I loved Max Baer, a great bloke...misrepresented in the film with Russel Crowe. Watched a lot of TH-cam videos about him, he had character and wit!
Verry, very misrepresented.
Dirk Diggler Hey it was great you met them, I loved the Beverly Hillbillies as a kid. We were from a rural part if England and were a bit like the Clamperts I think lol 😊😄 Max Baer was I think one if a kind, that win over Max Schmeling was so important for the World then. May he be in heaven and receive his just glory there.
Dirk Diggler Just a few clips on TH-cam. Maybe archive.org has it.
So sad. I loved Errol! If they would have taken him to the hospital right away, he might have lived for a while longer .
Linda Netzel thanks for watching Linda. 🙂
Tragic!
@Just think yes! A meteor!🌠
Just think his autopsy showed to he had the body of a 75 year old even he was he only 50 after he died of a massive heart attack. Flynn was a heavy drinker especially of vodka which would consume 2-3 quarts a day and was a chain smoker for to years. His autopsy showed his liver was so badly damaged from drinking he would have only lived another 9-12 months had he not died of heart attack.
@@scottknode898 supposedly the corners report described Flynn as a having the body of a tired old man.
Beverly Aadland did not write a book about her relationship with Errol Flynn, her mother (Florence Aadland) did. Which is stranger.
By the way I read Flynn poetry. This man was not a light weight in the brain dept.
Thank you Mike for all of your positive and knowledgeable contributions to Errol's memory and my vlog. Great people such as yourself inspire me to make more vlogs. I appreciate you.
HEARTBREAKING!!!! Such a talented and BEAUTIFUL MAN, with the morals of a BABOON!!!! Hope he made peace with God before he left this world!!!!
Liberty GiveMe thank you for watching my friend. 👍
Smoked a peace pipe 😂
Liberty GiveMe : Why would he? He died suddenly.
@@jcvancouver L. M bio bbn m
Get a brain for yourself which one of the 3000 gods that are worshipped on earth are you talking about?
very interesting, thank you
Thank you kindly Debra.
A dying man, leaning against a wall at a party, telling amusing anecdotes, still trying to be the life of the party! So sad.
I personally believe he was ready to go his movie career was over his looks had now gone he had no money his Hollywood friends disappeared the party was over and there was nowhere to go Hollywood had moved on legends never die they just move on...
Really enjoyed this . Thank you .
Thank you Bernadette.
I was so obsessed with Errol I just can't believe his true to life swashbuckling days in Papau New Guinea. I went to Tasmania and sought out all his points of interest. Went to the hospital ( the only one in Hobart) he was delivered. It's a hotel for seniors today. His childhood home where the current owner posted photos near entrance of the young Errol playing. The black sandy beach where his mom taught him to swim. It's in his book btw. There's a memorial erected there for Errol but goodness easily missed! The National theatre where he saw his first movie in 1915 with his mom.
Outside this theatre is his name on the sidewalk. Errol never went back to Tasmania after he left! I'm always curious how he lost his accent. Thanx for this video
Lt Columbo thank you for watching lieutenant. 🙂 oh just one more thing...
@@jcvancouver Yes?
Yeh, well, i think we choose the way we are going to die for the life we live. Poor Errol! RIP.
Thanks for watching Michel.
Nothing shocking about the autopsy photo., He looked the same when he was alive. My mother used to have an expression she'd say frequently. "In and out like Flynn" Back then I didn't understand the origin of that saying.
joan smith thanks for watching Joan. 🙂
In like Flynn, I remember that saying.
@@frankpaya690 You said it right. "In like Flynn."
The man was a legend they don't make them like him anymore hard drinking lived for the moment he lived the dream....
Thanks for watching Tony.
@@jcvancouver..no worries sir loved your video..
He knew how to live!
One of the last great legends. We are all so beige now.
Thanks for watching my friend.
Jean Claude Van Couver fantastic video. I live a short distance away from the place he was born. The old Hobart maternity hospital 82 Hampden rd in Battery point Hobart. You can get a good look at the building on google earths street view. It’s the 2 story building with the arch’s over the top story veranda. 👍
@@bluedogreddogstumpy5868 That is incredible my friend! I am going to check that out right now,
Jean Claude Van Couver just as a matter of interest “ Bishopscourt” is diagonally across from on my place on Antill st ( about 400 meters from Hampden Rd) and is were Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery spent his childhood until he left aged 14.
Ha. “We are all so beige now.” Well put. 🙌
Gee, towards the end he started looking like Jan Michael Vincent
Jacqueline Larsen thanks for watching Jacqueline. 🙂
Nobody could look as bad as did the end-of-days Jan Michael Vincent.
Yeah! Well, from the beginning JMV was seriously warring with half of his own inner self. Such battling, with it's cobbled learned Heterocentristic rules, is taught to those males of us that do not escape it, and it is NEVER to be won, only lost; posturing, appearances and sports bluster to-the-contrary, notwithstanding. It is so, dear Jacqueline, that Nature's Creator demonstrates through Her what is to be, and not. She commands, we do not. The substitution of grotesquely fantasized book-bound mysticism just ain't gonna cut it; torment of one form or a hundred others only promising. Jan Michael Vincent's spectacular case stands as a tragic, most vivid example of that Losing Game coming to it's predicted end. (Appearances ARE 'telling.')
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@Mookie Spindlehurst Studied and understood. Thank you for your corrections.
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@Mookie Spindlehurst
Thank you, M.M., for your response to mine and, complimentary words of peace. It would seem that we are of identical age and so, are 'war babies.'
Yes, as you said, Bobby Hackett trumpeter-supreme plus as we might remember too Ray Bloch - "The FLOWER of the musical world!" (who would always display his chrome-dome as accompanied by proper snare-drum licks, when taking his head-bows) and, of course Sammy Spear, he having always some new snazzy outfit for Jackie to comment about such as "Ohhh, you ARE a beautiful one Sammy!" (As paraphrased from rusty memory.) Gees, what characters and days those were. And what else! Dinah Shore and Chevy's, Johnny Ray, Nick Shamus of Giant Felix Chevrolet where "We stock 'em and sell 'em in THOUSANDS!" and very much more of the delightful-like. (If you are in the East, then these I mentioned will not ring many bells - ha!)
As for J.M.V., as time progressed it was not kind nor helpful to his ferocious lifetime inner struggle, whatever in actual truth it may have been, most sadly. As I stated too briefly, and sans necessary detailage above, I've my own idea as to just what it was. Way too many of we males suffer terribly on it's clueless heartless account; others not, somehow escaping it. Jan Michael proved unable. I'd not heard about the cats incident. It is not at all surprising to learn-of, cats being great friends and teachers to us, as we are to them conservators and admirers, or should be.
(To be briefly candid, wanting not to be of any tease-value - human males seem to require more than what is allowed by human-conceived controlling forces, which themselves seem perverse, just as they charge others of, as projected. Conceptually, as explanations, it is painful in-extremis for many to come to realize what they have lost to time, this being so-particularly in later years. Yes, it having been co-opted from what was so necessary for the achievement of so-longed-for natural balance. As gone without, as according with and to dictated dis-allowance, big trouble is SURE to manifest, and does! This takes many a weird form, masqueraded always from it's actual, ghastly reality. This is what tormented J.M.V. to final death, I believe. That inner self-loathing as taught and learned, simply increased to explosion levels of pressure, his having had precisely ZERO routes for any relief from it, and so . . ."FINI"! This same deeply tragic tormenting story goes on-and-on-and-on, and Heterocentrism* holds the whip-handle or, portions-out the carrots for proper single-way obedience solely. "Comply or else!" - so the heartless fiend commands! However, the young are getting wise fast, and are working their way around that destructive, murderous cultic 'opposites only' perverseness by themselves. By hook-or-by-crook they are, although many do get into trouble by virtue of knowing-not of what better they should and would.)
"Divine Architect ..." as a workable euphemism for what cannot be described nor understood on our pathetic little human level of-present, I am just fine with, just as with too say Mother Nature OR Father Nature. (My grandfather was a 32d SRFM, and so I heard much about such things, tho that was admittedly of long ago.)
I like very much your Dumas quote. I'll remember it for good use; and I thank you for it.
After all that, I do hope that I am not again to be immersed in new hot-water. - J.M.
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* The actual WORSHIP of reproduction!
Not that it matters, however, the autopsy table shown is not the actual table that was used for Errol Flynn. That table, shown in the pricture, had a bar or rail at the end of the table by his head.
What an absolute legend!
There will never be another.
His 16 year old girlfriend 😂 only Errol could pull that one off.
He was great in"santa fe trail.⏰ran⌛for him way too soon.🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴
vern wallen thanks for watching Vern. 🙂
Great video thanks for sharing always watch all his movies
Thank you kindly my friend. He sure made some great ones.
The Boy screwed Himself to death....especially with the Jamaican Girls ! Ha ha .....what a way to go !
He knew how to live!😎
since i was a young boy ERROLwas my favorite,he still is,,i have so many books on him,,out of print,,rare, new,,seen all his movies,,yup,ALL,,own most of them,,,he was for me the top star from the golden age of hollywood,,,,thanks for this,
joe bloggs thanks Joe. He was one of a kind. 🙂
Errol Flynn was told he was dying one year prior and he knew he was on borrowed time. I believe he went into the room of the doctors house to lie down because he knew he was dying and he didn't want anyone to see him pass. A very sad ending for poor Errol Flynn, ironically the last few lines of his autobiography read... "The second half of the century looms but I don't feel the night coming on"... says it all really.
Sadly his son "Sean Flynn" was murdered by the Khmer Rouge in 1970 and his daughter "Arnella" in 1998 of a drug overdose.
Thanks for watching John.
@@jcvancouver : Cheers for posting the video Jean. I am a huge fan of Errol Flynn.
I met Patrice (widow) in Jamaica 1986. She said Errol hated farming but was cool! 😎
thanks dear Jean Claude good report and also great piece of advice re: hotels in Vancouver! Never been! Warm regards from Europe.
CC Top thank you kindly CC. 🙂
@@jcvancouver it seems to me that you know Vancouver well (apart from being an Errol Flynn fan?). May I give you my email address? Maybe we can keep in touch if I come to visit Vancouver. Waiting for your response. Warm regards
CC Top good idea friend.
@@jcvancouver hi Jean-Claude, hope you have seen my email address as I plan to delete the post soon...thanks, warm regards, N.
CC Top I got it thanks N.
🌹🌹🌹R.I.P.
Matthew McSheffrey nice tribute. Thanks Matthew. 🙂
his girlfriend said he died at the doctors place
Australian Crawl paid tribute to Errol in a song called Errol look it up on TH-cam
Thanks for the cue Victor. I'll have to check that out.
''I would give anything just to be like him''
I worked for a university in Sydney ,Australia .I worked on properties left to the university veterinary dept by Flynn as a legacy for caring for his dog
John Ogburn that’s incredible John. Thank you for watching. 🙂
I call him the Tasmanian devil
Good call. Thanks for watching Emerald.
I lived in Vancouver for 8 years and I still miss that city. I could see why Errol liked it there.
Thanks for watching Smith. I enjoy celebrating this great city.
I'm English I live in UK. First place I ever visited in Canada was Vancouver yes I liked the city very much ( Stanley Park etc ) is that wooden Bridge still there in Van ?
I recall it was named Granby Bridge ( or similar name ? )
@@alankirkby465 I hope you could make it back for another visit Alan. I wonder if perhaps you are thinking of the Granville bridge.
@@jcvancouver That's it, Granville Bridge.
Wonderfully narrated...thank you
Thank you kindly Stuart. I appreciate it.
Alec Baldwin resembles him, don’t you think?
THANKS FOR THE STORY OF ERROL FLYNN BECAUSE I NEVER HEARD OF IT
Thanks for watching Demetrius.
THANKS FOR THAT. FASCINATING!
Quite interesting. Thanks for the work you put into this!
Sue Hofkamp thank you kindly Sue. 🙂
Great video of one of my favoutite actors. However, I have seen his sudden report at Vancouver Police Dept and he was DOA in the Burnaby St apartment. I am also aware of the "inappropriate" comments mentioned. He certainly lived a full life! His book " My Wicked Wicked Ways" was very funny and entertaining.
The guy was better looking than me dead, then when I'm alive.
Thank you for watching my friend.
I am a big fan of Errol Flynn, having grown up watching his movies, e.g. The Adventures Of Robin Hood, Captin Blood, The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex, They Died With Their Boots On, etc. I read his biography 'My Wicked, Wicked Ways', which I thought was fantastic. He really was a swashbuckler and a loveable rogue. From Tasmania to Vancouver via Hollywood. RIP Errol! Thank you for the upload, very fascinating.
Paul E thank you kindly Paul. 🙂 Errol sure had an incredible life.
"A loveable rogue"
That's Errol Flynn to a "T".
Errol Flynn was a drinking womanizer, but also a sensitive, creative intellectual. He portrayed men of courage, virtue, and charm. His downfall of course, was alcohol, a tricky toxic substance. But many highly intelligent men fall victim to it because it slows down their minds which are stuck in high speed gear
Michael Warne well said Michael. 👍 thanks for watching. 🙂
I've stayed at the Sylvia! I never knew the connection to Errol...
Robert Brown it sure is a great place. Thanks for watching Robert. 👍
Great video. Errol was my favorite actor by far. I visited his grave at Forest Lawn Memorial Parks in Glendale, Ca. back in 1995. I also got to see his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Angst1966 thank you kindly my friend. 🙂 Errol sure was a great actor! 👍
I wonder what happened to Flynn's sail boat. ?
It was eventually confiscated after remaining in dock for several years at a port in the Mediterranean. It is still in use after a major guttting and remodel, somewhere on the Pacific Coast. Some say he was in Vancouver to lease and not sell it, but that he had been keeping it abroad to avoid confiscation by the I.R.S.
Last I heard, his boat, the Zaca, is alive and well and sailing out of Monte Carlo. My middle name is Flynn after my dad's favorite actor. Just watched Prince and the Pauper last night - what an amazing talent he was, never gets enough cred for his acting ability. Allegedly his last words were "I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it".
my uncle lived there and died same hospital same way , errol was collapsing at 45 and he died due to drinking smoking and his athletic heart - watch the film too much too soon
Nik Jaric thank you for watching my friend. 👍🇨🇦
The Sylvia, overlooking English Bay, Vancouver...I've gone by it dozens of times over the decades, need to finally go inside.
Gordon Wogberg good idea Gordon. Thank you for watching my vlog. 🙂
very interesting and informative,thankyou. i feel errols course in life was set at an early age and he lived several lives in hts 50 years, great character and actor. his co-star in his early films olivia de havilland is inher 104th year.
Paul Leighton thank you for watching my vlog Paul. I appreciate your kind message. 🙂👍
I wonder how old she really is, I've seen her listed in the postings here as 103,102, and now 104.
Happy to hear a human voice doing a bio !
Truman Grandey thanks for watching Truman. 👍
Thank Jean for ❤️❤️.
A slightly different take:
www.coastreporter.net/opinion/editorial/dad-errol-flynn-and-yours-truly-1.1002302
My favourite actor brilliant in all the movies from captain blood, Elizabeth and Essex, sea hawks, robin hood, and Don Juan. SO SAD the way this great actor went.
Thanks for watching William.
There's a story about the doctor on the autopsy. He was surprised Flynn was only 50. He said Flynn had the body of a man in his 70s.
Coined The Phrase,,,I'm Here For A Good Time..Not A Long Time...Along With Steve McQueen And George Best. Flynn Died On My 7th birthday
Garry Wood thanks for watching Garry. 🙂
Even though Errol was a movie star THEY really wouldn't of known HIM reckon somewhere deep inside HIM he was ALWAYS missing and sailing around the seas of where he came from
He was a god, in his prime he was sooo GORGEOUS! My all time favorite movie star. ♥♥♥
My wicked wicked ways is a hell of a read too.
Fuck ur feelings thank you for watching my friend. 🙂👍
He knew how to live!😎
@@marknewton6984 And then some 😂
Jean, You put a load of hard work researching, filming and editing this video. Great results! Thanks.
Thank you kindly Jim. Yes it is a lot of work but well worth it when good people such as yourself appreciate it.
Tasmania - stte of Australia, when he died at 50 his 14 Y O ( NOT 16) was with him!
Evidently Errol had a massive ...... too. He certainly got his share of Gpd`s gifts.
Great informative video about the great Errol Flynn!
Kathleen Lazarski thank you Kathleen. 🙂
@@jcvancouver did Errol Flynn have any children, and are they still living?
Frank Paya Yes I believe he does. Thank you for watching Frank. 👍
Ewww...I just read about what was found on Flynn that you couldn't mention in your story (which I greatly enjoyed, btw!) and now I'm a tad traumatized. ☹
"Life with Errol Flynn was never a full moment,"says his last wife Patrice Wymore.
For Wymore life with Hollywood's most swashbuckling actor was one of a roller coaster ride and on a fast lane.
Even actor David Niven acknowledged that when he met his friend Errol in 1958 he was shocked by the physical and mental change of Errol.Niven said,"His face was puffy and he was no longer the handsome and deboniar actor I had known when we last met in 1946.".
Yes,it was an unhealthy lifestyle full with booze,drugs and women that ended Errol Flynn's life at the age of 50 on 14 October 1959.He had died of a heart attack but who cares.Errol Flynn had enjoyed every minute of his life.These were in fact his last words.
Yi Seng well said Yi. Thanks for watching my vlog. 🙂
A deviant lifestyle kills.
I met his widow Patrice and she said Errol was cool. 😎
I read Flynn's autobiography, "My wicked, Wicked Ways" a couple of years ago and it is worth a read. You glossed over his early adventures in the Pacific Ocean, but it is a wonder he did not die then. You say that Beverly Aadland was 16 years ago, but she is said to be 22 elsewhere with the same photo of them sunbathing at a California pool. Since she was born in 1942 and he died in 1959, I think they wanted to make her older than she was.
Chester thanks for watching Chester. 👍
I read his book too. My main takeaway from it is he was taken for a lot of money by women.