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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | The quintessential lighthearted action film hero. Errol Flynn's (1909-1959) very first film role was a bit part as Fletcher Christian in an Australian documentary, In the Wake of the Bounty, in 1933; the next year he played his first Hollywood part, the nearly silent role of a murder victim seen alive only in flashback in the Perry Mason mystery, The Case of the Curious Bride. When English actor Robert Donat bowed out of Captain Blood for reasons of illness, the newcomer Flynn was cast in the part of the adventurous Peter Blood. Flynn was catapulted to instant superstardom with practically no prior roles in movies whatsoever. This was in stark contrast to the practice of the time, when nearly every other actor had to play bit parts and supporting roles for years before he became a star. He was popular not only in swashbucklers, but, oddly enough, in Westerns like Santa Fe Trail, (wherein he played a British-accented J.E.B. Stuart) San Antonio, Silver River, and They Died With Their Boots On (in which he played a British-accented George Armstrong Custer) as well, besides war films such as Dive Bonber, Desperate Journey, and Objective: Burma! -- Flynn even did a dancing and singing stint in the Warners' all-star morale-booster, Thank Your Lucky Stars. For a few years there was no bigger star in Hollywood. |
