Rory Flynn sends us this interesting news about her son (Sean Rio Flynn)’s business!
— David DeWitt
Rory Flynn sends us this interesting news about her son (Sean Rio Flynn)’s business!
— David DeWitt
The Mail Bag brings a nice nugget about the film appearances of Sean Flynn (son of Errol Flynn and Lili Damita …)
I was looking at the filmography of George Hamilton and knew he was in that movie but was not listed as being in it on a particular website, looked further and also found THIS…. Guess who?
WAIT FOR IT….SEAN FLYNN (UNCREDITED) !You have to look for “full cast & crew” to find him. I tried to copy that link to tiny URL but no dice.How about that!AudieGREAT Find … Thanks so much!
— David DeWitt
The Mail Bag brings this puzzler???
This picture, and a few others, have been linked to the 11-minute film, Deep Sea Fishing, with dates of the release of this short subject, anywhere from 1946 to 1954. There are supposedly some newspaper ads for the picture that listed, “starring Howard Hill,” not Errol Flynn.
Is there any information on the actual film, showing a correct year? How about a date and place of it’s showing?
I leave this you Flynn Detectives out there …
— David DeWitt
This is from the FB version of our blog. Selene Hutchison-Zuffi writes:
Dan did it again, third time in 3 months that he brought flowers to Errol for me as I cant. This was something beautiful he did today. He brought flowers to Errol on the 60th anniversary of his passing. RIP darling …
Thanks, Selene …
— David DeWitt
From the Mail Bag …
I am trying to discover when Flynn made his appearance on the Gene Hersholt show Dr.Christian (here’s an ad if that will help). I do not have a clue, just a pic. I do believe that is him with Flynn …
— David DeWitt
Got this nice message from TJR McDowell:
Sean Flynn with Errol …
David: I spent some time today looking over your Flynn Blog. It really is extraordinary, the best blog on the internet. I’ve been fortunate enough to be allowed to post a few things about Flynn, and it’s been very gratifying. Flynn has popped up in my life at the oddest times.
I went to a school named Lawrenceville in NJ, and my math teacher, Mr. Parks, an old fossil but nice guy, occasionally would talk about Sean Flynn who he’d also taught at Lawrenceville. Errol visited once on parents day, and Mr. Parks met him and said he was friendly and proud of Sean. We were asked to pray for Sean at chapel (this was in 1972, my 8th grade year), as I think it was his birthday, and he was still missing in Cambodia.
I know a guy from Sean’s class who said Sean was a nice low key guy, who struggled (like everyone there) in class, but excelled on the swim team..I knew another fellow in London name Colin Crewe who told me he spent a day with Errol in the late 1950’s when he worked for Lloyds of London and was insuring Errol for a film and assigned to tag along with him for a day, and that Flynn wore this beautiful blue wool suit and Colin went out the next day and bought one.
Then there was Robin Moore whom I knew slightly, wrote French Connection, and he told me about hanging out with Flynn in Jamaica, teasing the native dogs and hitting on the native women, and how Flynn once fought with a young Chris Blackwell, the record magnate, whose family lived in Jamaica. Then there was an in depth article I wrote for Premiere Magazine all about the Garden of Allah, and there were sundry Flynn stories here; I interviewed everyone from Hal Roach to Cesar Romero to Billy Wilder to Glen Ford who had me over and we talked for hours and he thought Flynn was a man’s man but basically a sad guy.
Lastly, I once interviewed Charles Higham, who wrote the untold story, the weirdest most dysfunctional misanthropic con man I’ve ever spoken with, a sick guy who was into exploiting everyone to make a living; his book was sheer invention calculated to get on best seller lists everywhere, which it did.
All best, Rider
Thanks, TJR …
— David DeWitt
— David DeWitt