Wicked Errol Flynn grew up in the South Seas and emigrated to England in 1933. He worked on the stage for a short time and then made his way into motion pictures at Warner Brothers Teddington Studios. There Jack L. Warner of the Warner Bros. Burbank Studio took notice and brought Flynn to the United States, where he became a star of the first magnitude. Later on in life Flynn's hedonistic lifestyle began to gradually take its toll and he began a long physical and mental decline. In 1949 when he starred in 'The Adventures of Don Juan' his short term memory had started to let him down and his normal confident manner was beginning to change. His box-office successes became fewer and his personal financial problems increased. The Errol Flynn Theater (1957), the nature of which allowed him to display a hitherto untapped versatility. He wrote a remarkably candid (if often wildly inaccurate) autobiography, My Wicked, Wicked Ways (1959), and made a cheaply filmed paean to Fidel Castro, Cuban Rebel Girls (1959). Flynn was married three times and was the father of four; his son, Sean, was a photojournalist who disappeared in 1970 while covering the war in Southeast Asia.

 

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