The hit song "Errol", by Australian band Australian Crawl, was about him.

From his mother's side and through Fletcher Christian he is descended from an illegitimate daughter from an unknown mother of Sir Richard Neville, 6th Earl of Salisbury and 16th Earl Consort of Warwick, 181th Knight of the Garter, and through him from Edward III Plantagenet, King of England.

Is portrayed by Duncan Regehr in My Wicked, Wicked Ways... The Legend of Errol Flynn (1985) (TV) and by Guy Pearce in Flynn (1996)

His father, Theodore Flynn, taught biology at Queens College, Belfast.

Independent writer/director Patrick Stark is creating a dramatic feature about the last days of Flynn's life in Vancouver, British Columbia.

At the end of his life Flynn caused a scandal by touring the world with his teenage mistress working as his secretary.

Father, with Lili Damita of photojournalist Sean Flynn (1941 - 1970).

His performance as Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) is ranked #16 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Father with Nora Eddington of Deirdre (born January 10, 1945) and Rory (born March 12, 1947).

Grandfather of Luke Flynn.

Father, with Patrice Wymore of Arnella (25 December 1953 - 21 September 1998)

Although from generations of Tasmanians, his family was of British and Irish descent.

He was voted the 55th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

Is portrayed by Jude Law in The Aviator (2004).

Ranked #70 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]

Mentioned in the song "Blood on the Rooftops" by Genesis.

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#86). [1995]

Best remembered by the public for his starring in swash-buckling adventure films.

He met his second wife while she was working at a snacks counter in a courthouse during one of his rape trials!!

He was voted the 26th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

Father of Deirdre Flynn.

A recent Australian documentary on his life and career, narrated by Christopher Lee, included a film clip of Flynn being interviewed on his being nominated for the Academy Award for his critically-lauded performance in The Sun Also Rises. We are then told that the nomination "disappeared".

Though Flynn did most of his own stunts in Against All Flags (1952), he balked at the one involving sliding down through a sail on a rapier blade, which was originated by Douglas Fairbanks in The Black Pirate (1926); it was performed by a stunt double.

The underlying causes of his death were myocardial infarction, coronary thrombosis, coronary atherosclerosis, liver degeneration, liver sclerosis and diverticulitis of the colon.

In his final years he suffered from Buerger`s disease, acute inflammation and thrombosis (clotting) of arteries and veins of the legs, hands and feet as a result of his excessive cigarette smoking.

Had a vasectomy in 1955.

Became seriously ill with liver failure in the mid-1950s.

He was considered for Leslie Howard`s role in Gone with the Wind (1939). He was also allegedly considered for the role of Rhett Butler, but Bette Davis (who was to play Scarlett O`Hara) vetoed the idea.

Once stated that his only regret was his non-participation in World War II.

In the last two years of his life Flynn caused a scandal by touring the world with his teenage mistress Beverly Aadland working as his secretary.

In the early days of establishing his Hollywood career, he passed himself off as Irish in the belief that few people knew of Australia. He was born, educated and began work in Australia, later drifting between Papua New Guinea and Sydney (rumoured to have been a fighter for PNG) before stumbling on to acting. The Australian film In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) captured some attention for him in the States and so, owing enormous debts to the Australian Taxation Office, he moved to America. He said to the ATO, "I`m willing to forget if you are.".

Nearly died from food poisoning after eating uncooked ground hamburger meat mixed with raw egg yolk early in 1959.

A chain smoker, in the last year of his life, he underwent hospital tests to see whether he had throat cancer.

In The Case of the Curious Bride (1935), one of his earliest films, his role consisted of lying on a marble slab as a corpse. There was also a flashback sequence towards the end of the film showing how Flynn was killed. The film in question has appeared at least twice on Turner Classic Movies during Errol Flynn festivals despite his very limited (certainly less than two minutes) screen time.

Probably his most uncharacteristic screen appearance occurred in Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) when he sang and danced his way through a pub number entitled "That`s What You Jolly Well Get".

His mother had Polinesian ancestry, from Tahiti, through her four great-grandmothers, since the mutineers of HMS Bounty came with Tahitian women to Pitcairn Island, where they had issue (estimated in 55 people living in 2005).

He was granted a 4-F deferment during World War II due to his weak heart, exacerbated by bouts of malaria and tuberculosis. During the filming of Gentleman Jim (1942) Flynn suffered a mild heart attack.

In 1980, author Charles Higham published a controversial biography, "Errol Flynn: The Untold Story," in which he alleged that he was a fascist sympathizer who spied for the Nazis before and during World War II. In Disney`s film The Rocketeer (1991), the major villain, Neville Sinclair, was a 1930s Hollywood actor who spied for the Nazis in an obvious reference to Higham`s allegations about Flynn. The book also alleged he was bisexual, and had affairs with Tyrone Power, Howard Hughes and Truman Capote. Subsequent biographies - notably Tony Thomas` "Errol Flynn: The Spy Who Never Was" (1990) - have denounced Higham`s claims as fabrications. Flynn`s political beliefs appear to have been left-wing. He was a supporter of the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War and of the Cuban Revolution, even hosting a documentary titled The Truth About Fidel Castro Revolution (1959) shortly before his death. According to his own posthumous autobiography, "My Wicked, Wicked Ways", he admired Fidel Castro and considered him a personal friend.

Declaring to his second wife that he wanted to experience everything in life, he began dabbling in opium in the late 1940s and quickly became a full-fledged addict. His opium addiction and the effects of the alcohol that ravaged his body over the years contributed to his premature death in 1959 at only age 50.

Although they made some of their best pictures together, he despised director Michael Curtiz and the two fought constantly whenever they worked together. Ironically his first wife, Lili Damita was previously briefly married to the director.

Although only fifty when he succumbed to a massive heart attack aboard the yacht that had become his home during his final years, the autopsy showed he had the body of a seventy-five-year-old man.

He and Olivia de Havilland acted together in 9 movies: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), Dodge City (1939), Four`s a Crowd (1938), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), Santa Fe Trail (1940), Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) and They Died with Their Boots On (1941)

Warner Brothers` publicity department tried to claim that he was from Ireland, when he was in fact from Tasmania, the small island state of Australia.

He also found success as a writer. He authored two novels, several articles, and an autobiography, "My Wicked, Wicked Ways".

It was during a "Parkinson" (1971) interview that his good friend David Niven revealed that during the filming of The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), Flynn was busy on a horse during a break applying makeup with one hand whilst holding a mirror in the other. An extra seeing this assumed (like most of the people around) that he was gay, and decided to "pock" the horse up the behind with his lance - the horse bucked, throwing Flynn to the ground. He got to his feet and asked who had done that, the extra volunteered, thinking that this would only add to his embarrassment. However, Flynn dragged him from the horse and gave him a sound beating. They were the best of friends after that.

His father was head of Zoology at the University of Tasmania.

He was the great-great-great-great-grandson of HMS Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian, whom he portrayed in the film In the Wake of the Bounty (1933). He was also the 23rd great-grandson of Robert De Vere (the real "Robin Hood"), whom he also portrayed in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). In addition, he is the 15th cousin twice removed of Olivia de Havilland, who played Maid Marian, his love interest, in that same film.

His son Sean Flynn appeared in a few films but didn`t particularly like being an actor. He switched careers and was a freelance photojournalist during the Vietnam War. He disappeared with another journalist as they followed the US Army invasion into Cambodia and both were thought to have been captured and executed by Khmer Rouge guerrillas. He is the subject of the 1981 The Clash song, "Sean Flynn."

The phrase "In like Flynn," stems from his 1942 trial for statutory rape.

On his mother`s side, he was a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian and Edward Young, of H.M.S. Bounty fame.

Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, in the Garden of Everlasting Peace.

When banned from drinking on a film set, he would inject oranges with vodka and eat them during his breaks.

Was tried for statutory rape in 1942 but was acquitted.

It has been said that his 1959 autobiography, "My Wicked Wicked Ways," was originally to be called "In Like Me."

He is considered one of the greatest movie swashbucklers of the sound period.