I recently watched the movie "The Roots of Heaven" and Errol Flynn was incredible in that. He got very handsome as he got older. I think this was his last movie. The whole movie seems to have disappeared off the radar. It does not even appear on his Wiki-pedia page as a movie he made, though he got top billing. It is available on iTunes to rent.
The wonderful thing about WML, then and now, is you get to see some of the major stars of the 20th century in a pretty natural setting sans costumes and see them while they were still working in the industry...some after their maxiumum fame, and some at the top of their game...and I'm speaking of the panel as well as the guests.
"In Like Flynn" was a term coined to desribe being like Flynn. He as a womanizing hard core drinker, brawler and substance abuser. A short hard lived life.
He played Fletcher Christian of the HMS Bounty and through his mother was a descendant of a crew member. During the 1920's had went to the then Australian territory of Papua New Guinea to mine gold. While there it is rumored he murdered a fellow Australian but there was not enough proof to lay charges. When he left Australia for the USA he stole and pawned the jewelery of his rich lover to finance the journey. He never set foot in Australia again.
@binaway Hi, Flynn claimed in his autobiography that he shot a native Papuan during a fight, but many people think he was telling a tall tale. He didn't murder an Australian, though. He also said he stole his rich girlfriend's pearls, when he left Australia for the U.K., where he started his acting career. He spent about 1 1/2 years in the U.K., before Warner Brothers brought him to Hollywood. Flynn seemed to like a good story more than the unvarnished truth, and exaggerated many tales.
I'm currently nearing the end of his brilliant autobiography 'My Wicked Wicked Ways', can anyone tell me what year this is? - I'm guessing around 1956 myself, actually forget it, just realised that I can just google the movie he was working on or promoting here and I'll find out that way.
@MOGGS1942 funny enough, According to Bennet Cerf in an interview Errol was extremely drunk just before entering the program. They had serious doubt whether he could appear that evening. There was some sobering up to do before the show
@piponope I've been a massive fan of Flynn's since my younger cinema going days. He was a better actor than many thought,I suspect some of his critics,the male ones,were probably jealous of him. He still remains one of the most charismatic of screen actors.
@RichardElden Certainly everyone is entitled to his opinion. Myself, I enjoy all of Flynn's films on many levels. If we are to infer from your ironic remarks that you believe in later years Flynn was simply playing himself in dissipation, two points: a) it is not easy to "play oneself" in any condition, and b) Flynn thoroughly injects his personality in the service of the character he is playing & the circumstances of the story. Even lesser Hollywood luminaries are effulgent to some extent.
Well he was the most charmless guest so far except when he said goodbye and for an actor who was renowned for his formidable charm on and off the screen that was a real downer.
@torchkit I could be totally wrong here, but it sounds like she said "are you ever younger", but of course that wouldn't make any sense. I wish they had his interview from when he appeared on the show years before.
Errol was the greatest, most handsome, charming actor in the history of motion pictures. I loved the way he put Ronald Reagan in his place and how pale an actor he was in comparison.
@RichardElden PeterFirthFan strikes again! To other viewers- see what we're up against with this jerk. Wishing cancer on someone. What a vile person you are, RichardElden, or whatever your real name is. You're a piece of garbage.
@RichardElden Oh, I think this RichardElden is yet the newest alias for that coward and creep PeterFirthFan, ObamaRules4ever, JuanMacready, etc., etc., ad nauseum (with emphasis on "nauseum," as in "nauseated"). This major creep is always waiting in the wings, with yet another name to hide behind, to spew more venom. Go back into your rathole, creep!
@NorthBay65 yes you are correct a sick lonely person who gets very aroused by wishing cancer on people he will be removed and then return with the same predictible comments,i think i hacve wiped things off my shoe more pleasant than this snidey poltroon
@RichardElden That's a bit harsh. Flynn had just made a great film (as stated above by another poster), "The Sun Also Rises." He gave an excellent performance, and got rave reviews. It's true that he had been a substance abuser for many years, but he wasn't quite as terrible as you imply. He also supported Castro, as did many others, before it was apparent that Castro was a communist. Many thought he was some kind of freedom fighter at the time. Maybe naive, but not supportive of a communist.
This would have been 1957 or 1958, and Errol Flynn had just turned in strong performances in The Sun Also Rises and Too Much, Too Soon. He is playing this glorified parlor game in the perfect spirit and stumps the panel for quite some time, i.e., he is alert and skilled. It's called acting and celebrity -- he was no more the heroes he played than he was the rogue he was portrayed as -- he just had the money to party more excessively than most. He would be dead within about a year after this.
All you clowns who want to speculate about whether or not EF was drunk, get over yourselves. He may have been but his attempts to obfuscate all over the place was a great strategy and almost worked. Why don't you prudes give equal time to speculating how many ludes that no talent hag Dorothy was on week after week in her attempts to uglify and bring this great show down.
Oh, about more than forty years of drug and alcohol abuse; various tropical and venereal diseases, and goodness knows how many women. So it's all catching up to him here. He died only a few years after this was broadcast.
@RichardElden I'm guessing that you are the same creep who also goes by the handles JuanMacReady, ObamaRulesForever, PeterFirthFan, etc. There isn't anyone else on YouTube who is as nasty as you. You really need professional help, as many people have told you. Give it a rest, will you? You are obviously a seriously disturbed person, who needs to move out of his/her/its parents' basement, and find some kind of a life. Leave the rest of us alone, will you?
@torchkit Hi, part of that episode IS on YouTube. Check Sammy Davis, Jr. on "What's My Line." There are a few different episodes with Sammy, so check them all. One of them has Errol as the Guest Panelist. He is fairly amusing there, just as in this episode. Boy, the posters here are pretty rough. Flynn wasn't at his best in these later years, but he was an OK guy. You might have some sympathy for him, as his life had gone south by that time. Those who live in glass houses, etc.
one article I read said you could not hang around with Flynn for long, he'd wear you out, he had such an intense personality. I loved Robin Hood, he did all those sword fighting scenes, very exciting to watch. And of course Dodge City was a really great film too.
Flynn wasn't nearly as good Blood as Yves Lambrecht in 1991. But then again, the book is likely better and Peter Blood has very little to do with the video
@wyomingmali ...He was probably drunk on this show. He was always drunk on set too. The studios would take away his booze to keep him sober, then they were puzzled when he took to eating oranges on set. It was only when he started slurring his words did the studios realised he had his oranges syringed with vodka!!
An original in every way, and no one since has ever had such sheer/raw screen presence as Captain Blood/Sea Hawk/Robin Hood/Dodge City Flynn. He was also a very shy man, happiest on his sailboat, doing oceanographic research, and a great lover of animals. An amazing man and life...with so much sadness in its last decades. Some self inflicted, some inflicted by others. Thanks for this clip, though it makes me sad.
Flynn was only in his late 40's for this (roughly). A reprobate in real life, he was never the less one of the screens top leading men in the 30's and f40's. As a boy he was my favorite actor and I spent many a day playing Robin Hood, or Custer, or Captain Blood. I can't think of any of todays actors who light up the screen the way he could.
A handwriting analysis would have a field day looking at Errol Flynn's signature on this show, especially with the way he puts an exclamation point after his name.
@MissGoldenDreams13 Check out the Montgomery Clift episode. Monty's signature has a strange, louche quality... with a big phallus in his surname... hmm
@JuanMacready MAYBE but his silly acting and voice was his way to try and put off the panel, and it worked, they all looked baffled. A fun appearance by Mr Flynn unlike some of the other stars who just talk in their normal voice or don't talk at all.
You know , everyone is entitled to their opinions, but if fans here of the show are having a good time watching these old video clips, then why waste time on here posting negative comments? If you don't like it then go some place else to vent your dislikes. I mean really....either haters want attention or have nothing better to do. These are classic and fun, so if you don't like them then don't say anything and just move on. Just enjoy them!
@JuanMacready Oh right.. but then an interview or a show isn't a movie.. well anyway he's still brillant but I would have loved to see him in that kind of show :) He's like my favourite actor until the sixties..
Flynn though failing still had his wit and charm about him, it is regrettable that no one helped him to stop his self destructive ways, as it is of the same sort of thing that happens with the current stars (so called) of this era as well, sadly enough!
Everyone, beware! This creep JuanMacready, aka PeterFirthFan, ObamaRules4Ever, and a number of other aliases, is a nasty troll who surfs the web, leaving his/her/its vile comments and detritus behind. Hopefully, the posters can delete this unpleasant person's comments from YouTube. This person has nothing constructive to offer, and just trashes certain celebrities. No doubt a reflection of this slimy person's lack of personal accomplishment and any kind of a life. Crawl back under your rock!
The late great Mr Flynn certainly seems drunk here! I've read that when he died around the age of 50, the doctors thought they were looking at the body of a man in his 70's. He may have died young (or at least middle aged) but one can't dispute that he packed a LOT of livin in those 50 years: sex, drugs & booze galore! Though he wasn't a great actor, he could be a very effective in the right role. The fella abused his body terribly...but he had TONS of fun doing it!
@JubalCalif He's certainly high on something. I do consider Errol to have been a very good actor, to the extent that he was underappreciated in his time. Hollywood would pound his door down now, if he was not otherwise pre-disposed (so to speak).
Appreciate your insightful comment about the late great Mr Flynn, O' Fan of the Flynn! I totally agree with you that Hollywood would indeed be pounding on his door today if he were not "pre-disposed" (and will be for some time). Loved your use of the term "pre-disposed"...gave me a much needed chuckle! THANKS for your comment! :)
I remember reading that his son Sean Flynn said when he was 14 and would bring his 14 yr old girlfriends home from school with him for a couple of hours to do homework or such, if he left her alone for just a few minutes, his father would have his girlfriend up in his bedroom in no time! Said his dad was always stealing his gf's from him, ha
I can't tell you how important it is that we ponder, evaluate and make judgements about the the sexual orientations of dead people! He way gay, he was bi, he was straight? Who CARES what you "believe"? The man has been dead for 50 years, so the chances of his sexual orientation affecting a romantic liaison involving you or one of your loved ones has been greatly reduced. Better yet, why don't you assume he WASN'T straight; then you can get on with loathing him for all of eternity. Geez...
So he dies two years later and they say that though 50, he ravaged his body to like 70. He claims he had a great life, so I guess we leave it at that. No tears.
It seems to be a fashion today to state "I heard that he/she is bi" without any legitimate proof to back it up. The radical gays would love us all to think that every famous person was either gay or bi. Unless I have facts to back up it up, I will assume that he was straight.
He was, and even if he weren't, it is nobody's business. That is classless to even bring it up. THAT is what is missing in our world and Hollywood today: CLASS.
Flynn had bouts of malaria and tuberculosis. He was also a chain smoker, an acoholic, an opium and morphine addict, and a pill popper. His underlying causes of death were myocardial infarction, coronary thrombosis, coronary atherosclerosis, liver degeneration, liver sclerosis, and diverticulitis of the colon. He also bedded more women than anyone can count. Flynn was the very definition of "hard living." I'm surprised he made it to the age of 50.
Flynn not only bedded many women, but also allegedly many underage girls and allegedly more than a few males. Flynn was tried for statuatory rape in the early 1940's and cleared of the charge.
He provided a sometimes dubious and ungrateful world a lot of entertainment and joy. None of us, though some think they do, walk on water. Thank you, Norbert, for posting these for those of us who appreciate them and miss them dearly.
Enjoyed this very much. A legend who packed 150 years of living into a brief 50! Was he drunk here? If he wasn't at this stage of his life he wouldn't have been Flynn. He he was a much better actor than he believed himself to be. Considering he came from the golden age of so many actor/actresses and we still revere him today says something of his legend ! Watch all hs Warners movies All entertsaining .Thanks for this vide!d
Beverly Aadland, the 15 year old that Flynn was with at the time of his fatal heart attack, just passed away herself on January 5, 2010 in Lancaster, California.
Flynn was undoubtedly a charming rascal and talented actor with oodles of alpha male charisma. Unflinching self-assurance, playfulness and devil-may-care recklessness still form a potent brew that seduces many women.
Captain Blood was a piece of crap like all the talentless rent boy Flynn's films. I'm glad he had cancer when he died. The Black Swan with his lover Ty Power was FAR better.
hey fucken cunt you made a comment on kevin soccer,this kid is now playing in argentina and you are sucking cocks and big ones just like mine,don't forget that u are fat and ugly, no girl friend,the only thing you do is eat all day,you fucken piece of shit
"What's My Line" is the greatest game show of all time. John Daily is magnificent--suave, literate--virtually flawless. WML is a kind show that models manners, social graces & wit. That leads us to Errol Flynn. He brings suavite to a whole other level. He's got an infectious smile, ready wit & good looks. This clip & many of the other original WML clips on YT are priceless. They feature creative artists at mid-twentieth century & help us understand where we've come from & where we're going.
@kolabiyao Ouch! Great comment until your very last one: "helps us understand where we've come from and where we're going." It's the where we're going part that didn't work for me, because I think that with today's fools masquerading as so-called celebrated persons, we actually lost our way. Don't you think?
Hey, come on, you guys! Can't we appreciate and honor Errol Flynn without the nasty language? Just because that creep PeterFirthFan writes like that doesn't mean everyone else has to. It kind of cheapens this nice WML posting with Flynn. And Errol has been the target of so much vile slander, that it doesn't help to defend him using such language. Not being prudish, but just to keep it civil. It's better to diss the scandal mongerers with wit.
don,t get upset, peter firth fanboy is merely a piece of shit on errol,s boot,s , i think he should lick himself off those boots...what do you say my good man?
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detahdomo 6 days ago
I recently watched the movie "The Roots of Heaven" and Errol Flynn was incredible in that. He got very handsome as he got older. I think this was his last movie. The whole movie seems to have disappeared off the radar. It does not even appear on his Wiki-pedia page as a movie he made, though he got top billing. It is available on iTunes to rent.
thesocialpet 2 weeks ago
Was he drunk on the show??
johnnycheck99 2 weeks ago
@johnnycheck99 according to Bennet he was very drunk and there was serious doubt just before the show whether he could appear
piponope 3 days ago
The wonderful thing about WML, then and now, is you get to see some of the major stars of the 20th century in a pretty natural setting sans costumes and see them while they were still working in the industry...some after their maxiumum fame, and some at the top of their game...and I'm speaking of the panel as well as the guests.
Ballsarama 3 weeks ago
I like Arlene's eye patch at the end.
nocalsteve 3 weeks ago
What a mess... poor guy, not a shadow of what he was when younger.
dangraphic 1 month ago
Was Errol gay or bi?
dtw1958 2 months ago
@dtw1958 That would be a 'yes'. Next question, Mr. Cerf.
SecsSells 1 week ago
rip
CK1223 2 months ago
Boy that Bennett Cerf was a crusty one! Errol was still a very handsome man, even at that point in his life. He was one of a kind.
michaeljayklein500 2 months ago
there he's still handsome, but boy he was HOTTT when he was younger...
Emmytaytay1 2 months ago
He looked pretty good considering.
IAmPlaysWithSquirrel 3 months ago
A fine actor who made some memorable movies but he was a hot mess on this show.
wiguy3 3 months ago
"In Like Flynn" was a term coined to desribe being like Flynn. He as a womanizing hard core drinker, brawler and substance abuser. A short hard lived life.
jimidee33 3 months ago
errol the original bad boy of movies r.i.p
CK1223 3 months ago in playlist More videos from NorbertR33
Impossibly handsome when a young man, he was debauched by the time he died @ 5O - too many drugs and alcohol, i'm afraid
scotnick59 4 months ago
Had a crush on him even into adult hood right after his Robinhood movie.
229kara 5 months ago
He played Fletcher Christian of the HMS Bounty and through his mother was a descendant of a crew member. During the 1920's had went to the then Australian territory of Papua New Guinea to mine gold. While there it is rumored he murdered a fellow Australian but there was not enough proof to lay charges. When he left Australia for the USA he stole and pawned the jewelery of his rich lover to finance the journey. He never set foot in Australia again.
binaway 7 months ago
@binaway Hi, Flynn claimed in his autobiography that he shot a native Papuan during a fight, but many people think he was telling a tall tale. He didn't murder an Australian, though. He also said he stole his rich girlfriend's pearls, when he left Australia for the U.K., where he started his acting career. He spent about 1 1/2 years in the U.K., before Warner Brothers brought him to Hollywood. Flynn seemed to like a good story more than the unvarnished truth, and exaggerated many tales.
NorthBay65 6 months ago
the man was still handsome and charming to an extreme!!!
greg4161 7 months ago
Priceless!!!!
mustang73ism 7 months ago
Mr. Flynn said that anyone who died rich was a failure . . . he gave away most of his large income from pictures and died almost broke.
rockyj74426 9 months ago 3
Those were the days, my friend...
gyrene1966 9 months ago
HEARD WHEN I WAS AT SCHOOL, 1959 HE HAD A COCK CALLED THE VIRGIN BUSTER, HIS SON WAS KILLED IN VIETNAM ?
michaelwright999 9 months ago
According to Bennett Cerf, he was so drunk he could barely stand unfortunately.. that is why I came here to see for myself. :/
crush41gb 9 months ago
Errol Flynn brought a couple of chicks along with him. They're under the desk. One for him and one for John Daly.
62easthar62 9 months ago
He seems tight.
lorrainewands 10 months ago 3
Almost acts like he can't wait to get out of there.
mousearebec 10 months ago
I'm currently nearing the end of his brilliant autobiography 'My Wicked Wicked Ways', can anyone tell me what year this is? - I'm guessing around 1956 myself, actually forget it, just realised that I can just google the movie he was working on or promoting here and I'll find out that way.
Kenmorfdublin 10 months ago
@Kenmorfdublin ...it was 1957 - thanks Google - and the great man had only two years to live, just 50 years young when he R.I.P. ed on us.
Kenmorfdublin 10 months ago
this guy was the Charlie Sheen of the 60's
ramennoodlechef 10 months ago
@ramennoodlechef What? - The great guy never lived to to see the 60's. (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) R.I.P.
Kenmorfdublin 10 months ago
@ramennoodlechef No. He made Charlie Sheen look like a monk
Mattycnw 6 months ago
@ramennoodlechef That would be true, if it weren't for the fact that he died in 1959 :P
But yeah, he certainly had an exciting lifestyle!
colmo1992 6 months ago
@ramennoodlechef Errol Flynn is a true legend.Charlie Sheen is not likely to attain anything approaching that status..
MOGGS1942 6 months ago 13
@MOGGS1942 Charlie Sheen has had to pay astronomical sums of money for his "dates". I doubt if Errol had to spend a dime.
papawx3 3 months ago
@MOGGS1942 funny enough, According to Bennet Cerf in an interview Errol was extremely drunk just before entering the program. They had serious doubt whether he could appear that evening. There was some sobering up to do before the show
piponope 3 days ago
@piponope I've been a massive fan of Flynn's since my younger cinema going days. He was a better actor than many thought,I suspect some of his critics,the male ones,were probably jealous of him. He still remains one of the most charismatic of screen actors.
MOGGS1942 3 days ago
@ramennoodlechef No he was way fucking cooler than Charlie Sheen.
Bouchon211 6 months ago 3
@ramennoodlechef I'd hate to break it to you but Errol Flynn died before the 1960s started.
quizmaster85 6 months ago
@ramennoodlechef lol sorry to burst your bubble he died in 1959
johnrei101 4 months ago
I idolized this man when I was younger, esp. as the incredible Robin Hood, but... he's the reason I don't read any more author biographies.
twiwonder 11 months ago
@twiwonder Yeah, I lost my respect for him when I read about him on imdb.com. A former idol for me as well.
rickardelimaa 7 months ago
@rickardelimaa sad...
twiwonder 7 months ago
@RichardElden Certainly everyone is entitled to his opinion. Myself, I enjoy all of Flynn's films on many levels. If we are to infer from your ironic remarks that you believe in later years Flynn was simply playing himself in dissipation, two points: a) it is not easy to "play oneself" in any condition, and b) Flynn thoroughly injects his personality in the service of the character he is playing & the circumstances of the story. Even lesser Hollywood luminaries are effulgent to some extent.
spellHYPOCRISY 11 months ago
even though flynn only made it to 50, he probably lived a fuller life than most people could ever dream of.
geovettes 11 months ago
He came across as so charming in his pictures. It's too bad he was so degenrate.
Ken, Toronto, Ont.
dreadnought45 11 months ago
Well he was the most charmless guest so far except when he said goodbye and for an actor who was renowned for his formidable charm on and off the screen that was a real downer.
bluewren2 11 months ago
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Underneath it all, humans are bisexual.
stevie68a 11 months ago
@RichardElden I WISH YOU COCK CANCER. SOON.
michaelwright999 11 months ago
What's wrong with him? Is he drunk?
omgbygollywow 11 months ago
@omgbygollywow I think he's just trying to mess with them.
inkenyo 10 months ago
Can anyone understand what Dorothy says to Errol at the very end? She starts with "My next question was going to be are you ever...."
torchkit 1 year ago
@torchkit I could be totally wrong here, but it sounds like she said "are you ever younger", but of course that wouldn't make any sense. I wish they had his interview from when he appeared on the show years before.
Daredoall 11 months ago
Bette Davis, Peter Lawford, Joan Crawford, and others have said in interviews and/or print that Flynn was bi-sexual so I tend to believe he was.
butchboy13 1 year ago
Errol was the greatest, most handsome, charming actor in the history of motion pictures. I loved the way he put Ronald Reagan in his place and how pale an actor he was in comparison.
greg4161 1 year ago
@RichardElden There you go again!
djuma77 1 year ago
@RichardElden PeterFirthFan strikes again! To other viewers- see what we're up against with this jerk. Wishing cancer on someone. What a vile person you are, RichardElden, or whatever your real name is. You're a piece of garbage.
djuma77 1 year ago
@RichardElden Oh, I think this RichardElden is yet the newest alias for that coward and creep PeterFirthFan, ObamaRules4ever, JuanMacready, etc., etc., ad nauseum (with emphasis on "nauseum," as in "nauseated"). This major creep is always waiting in the wings, with yet another name to hide behind, to spew more venom. Go back into your rathole, creep!
NorthBay65 1 year ago 7
@NorthBay65 yes you are correct a sick lonely person who gets very aroused by wishing cancer on people he will be removed and then return with the same predictible comments,i think i hacve wiped things off my shoe more pleasant than this snidey poltroon
bangform 9 months ago
@RichardElden That's a bit harsh. Flynn had just made a great film (as stated above by another poster), "The Sun Also Rises." He gave an excellent performance, and got rave reviews. It's true that he had been a substance abuser for many years, but he wasn't quite as terrible as you imply. He also supported Castro, as did many others, before it was apparent that Castro was a communist. Many thought he was some kind of freedom fighter at the time. Maybe naive, but not supportive of a communist.
NorthBay65 1 year ago
Bennett Cerf was really good at this.
ridewave444 1 year ago
This would have been 1957 or 1958, and Errol Flynn had just turned in strong performances in The Sun Also Rises and Too Much, Too Soon. He is playing this glorified parlor game in the perfect spirit and stumps the panel for quite some time, i.e., he is alert and skilled. It's called acting and celebrity -- he was no more the heroes he played than he was the rogue he was portrayed as -- he just had the money to party more excessively than most. He would be dead within about a year after this.
spellHYPOCRISY 1 year ago
All you clowns who want to speculate about whether or not EF was drunk, get over yourselves. He may have been but his attempts to obfuscate all over the place was a great strategy and almost worked. Why don't you prudes give equal time to speculating how many ludes that no talent hag Dorothy was on week after week in her attempts to uglify and bring this great show down.
spagandtuna 1 year ago
Even though Errol is past his prime... he's still a charmer...one of the best looking men ever to grace the screen.
thadxxx 1 year ago
@RichardElden that's what I thought when I saw his signature and that queer way he acts
TheMiamifuentes 1 year ago
Mitchum got great applause but Flynn's was muted?
planetrockford 1 year ago
How weird... really wrecks my image of him...
trschaefer 1 year ago
what in the hell is wrong with Flynn here
IceveinsProductions 1 year ago
@IceveinsProductions
Oh, about more than forty years of drug and alcohol abuse; various tropical and venereal diseases, and goodness knows how many women. So it's all catching up to him here. He died only a few years after this was broadcast.
PrincessHL 1 year ago
@RichardElden I'm guessing that you are the same creep who also goes by the handles JuanMacReady, ObamaRulesForever, PeterFirthFan, etc. There isn't anyone else on YouTube who is as nasty as you. You really need professional help, as many people have told you. Give it a rest, will you? You are obviously a seriously disturbed person, who needs to move out of his/her/its parents' basement, and find some kind of a life. Leave the rest of us alone, will you?
djuma77 1 year ago 2
How sad. What alcohol does to the brain. Errol is a good example.
PS Isn't Robin Hood a great classic.
phil123711 1 year ago
Definitely drunk. What the hell was he thinking?
levanyzzuf 1 year ago
What a horrible experience this must have been. Not one of the show's more pleasant segments.
senoramariposa 1 year ago
I wish someone could upload the WML episode where Errol appears on the panel.
torchkit 1 year ago
@torchkit Hi, part of that episode IS on YouTube. Check Sammy Davis, Jr. on "What's My Line." There are a few different episodes with Sammy, so check them all. One of them has Errol as the Guest Panelist. He is fairly amusing there, just as in this episode. Boy, the posters here are pretty rough. Flynn wasn't at his best in these later years, but he was an OK guy. You might have some sympathy for him, as his life had gone south by that time. Those who live in glass houses, etc.
djuma77 1 year ago
one article I read said you could not hang around with Flynn for long, he'd wear you out, he had such an intense personality. I loved Robin Hood, he did all those sword fighting scenes, very exciting to watch. And of course Dodge City was a really great film too.
whiskeyify 1 year ago
this must have been shortly before he kicked the bucket.
nerdflanders8710 1 year ago
Flynn wasn't nearly as good Blood as Yves Lambrecht in 1991. But then again, the book is likely better and Peter Blood has very little to do with the video
Nightingale1986 1 year ago
why does arlene have an eye patch on? Did she hurt her eye
ClassicsWEREandARE 1 year ago
To this day I still haven't seen his version of Robin Hood, but I hear it's fantastic.
wlhardy 1 year ago
@wlhardy oh you should see it! it's one of my favorites!
YoungSHolmesfan 1 year ago
Hey Johnny Depp...watch Captain Blood and learn......
JustineLaLoba 1 year ago
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Coolest Tasmanian that ever walked the face of this planet.
jonsonthepotatoe 1 year ago
Coolest Tasmanian that ever walked the face of this planet.
jonsonthepotatoe 1 year ago
By the 1950's he was considered a washed up joke. Too bad. Here he seems drunk as a skunk.
wyomingmali 1 year ago
@wyomingmali ...He was probably drunk on this show. He was always drunk on set too. The studios would take away his booze to keep him sober, then they were puzzled when he took to eating oranges on set. It was only when he started slurring his words did the studios realised he had his oranges syringed with vodka!!
coltsuperocean10 1 year ago
Errols probably off his tree as per usual.
ImeldaDavies 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this.
'love Errol. One of a kid.
juniormike 1 year ago
lol, the exclamation point after he signs in.
hotpink910 1 year ago 2
An original in every way, and no one since has ever had such sheer/raw screen presence as Captain Blood/Sea Hawk/Robin Hood/Dodge City Flynn. He was also a very shy man, happiest on his sailboat, doing oceanographic research, and a great lover of animals. An amazing man and life...with so much sadness in its last decades. Some self inflicted, some inflicted by others. Thanks for this clip, though it makes me sad.
FnordicQueen 1 year ago
3:21
7beers 1 year ago
darleawolfe is right on here.
Mr. Flynn's answers are not bad at all, but he shows obvious signs of his alcoholism catching up with him.
Whether one wants to pity him, or feel that he threw away his looks and health is debatable.
At his best, he was brilliant.
maxreger100 1 year ago
Arlene and the patch...oh she was such a ham!!!!! love her.
zamusicza 1 year ago
Flynn was only in his late 40's for this (roughly). A reprobate in real life, he was never the less one of the screens top leading men in the 30's and f40's. As a boy he was my favorite actor and I spent many a day playing Robin Hood, or Custer, or Captain Blood. I can't think of any of todays actors who light up the screen the way he could.
diptwares 1 year ago 3
It is not true that he was drunk or high here . He was sick.
darleawolfe 1 year ago
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what a pompous ass Errol Flynn was.
CT2507 1 year ago
Errol Flynn was such a terrific actor. I liked his period costumes movies like Adventures of Robin Hood, Elizabeth & Essex and Don Juan.
rickram1961 1 year ago 2
A handwriting analysis would have a field day looking at Errol Flynn's signature on this show, especially with the way he puts an exclamation point after his name.
MissGoldenDreams13 1 year ago 6
@MissGoldenDreams13 Check out the Montgomery Clift episode. Monty's signature has a strange, louche quality... with a big phallus in his surname... hmm
rasputin63 8 months ago
What year was this?
Galgarrick 1 year ago
@Galgarrick Based on all the movies they're referring to it seems like 1957. Only two years before Errol passed away.
filmidioten 1 year ago
was he high?
thecrackfox666 1 year ago
@thecrackfox666 He was definitely very drunk here.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready MAYBE but his silly acting and voice was his way to try and put off the panel, and it worked, they all looked baffled. A fun appearance by Mr Flynn unlike some of the other stars who just talk in their normal voice or don't talk at all.
filmidioten 1 year ago
@filmidioten Yeah, James Stewart and Jose Ferrer couldn't disguise their voices at all!
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@filmidioten I agree--he worked hard at stumping them!!
windstorm1000 10 months ago
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You know , everyone is entitled to their opinions, but if fans here of the show are having a good time watching these old video clips, then why waste time on here posting negative comments? If you don't like it then go some place else to vent your dislikes. I mean really....either haters want attention or have nothing better to do. These are classic and fun, so if you don't like them then don't say anything and just move on. Just enjoy them!
Gem5771 1 year ago
Flynn looked about 80 here.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
Please can someone tell me if they did one show with Clark Gable ? :)
I wish I had lived during the fifties really..
meryldepp 1 year ago
@meryldepp Gable never appeared on television.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready Oh really ? Didn't he just want to ? :(
meryldepp 1 year ago
@meryldepp He said people wouldn't pay to see his films if they could watch him on TV.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready Oh right.. but then an interview or a show isn't a movie.. well anyway he's still brillant but I would have loved to see him in that kind of show :) He's like my favourite actor until the sixties..
meryldepp 1 year ago
@meryldepp Wikipedia has a full list.
7beers 1 year ago
And dead 2 years after this aired.
owenowen 1 year ago
Flynn though failing still had his wit and charm about him, it is regrettable that no one helped him to stop his self destructive ways, as it is of the same sort of thing that happens with the current stars (so called) of this era as well, sadly enough!
Too much too soon. RIP Errol you are missed.
Colonel Phillip Green USAF USMC (Retired0
ColonelPhillipGreen 1 year ago 3
Everyone, beware! This creep JuanMacready, aka PeterFirthFan, ObamaRules4Ever, and a number of other aliases, is a nasty troll who surfs the web, leaving his/her/its vile comments and detritus behind. Hopefully, the posters can delete this unpleasant person's comments from YouTube. This person has nothing constructive to offer, and just trashes certain celebrities. No doubt a reflection of this slimy person's lack of personal accomplishment and any kind of a life. Crawl back under your rock!
djuma77 1 year ago 3
The late great Mr Flynn certainly seems drunk here! I've read that when he died around the age of 50, the doctors thought they were looking at the body of a man in his 70's. He may have died young (or at least middle aged) but one can't dispute that he packed a LOT of livin in those 50 years: sex, drugs & booze galore! Though he wasn't a great actor, he could be a very effective in the right role. The fella abused his body terribly...but he had TONS of fun doing it!
JubalCalif 1 year ago
@JubalCalif He was so handsome in his youth but ruined his body with drugs, cigarettes and booze.
snailsbeak 1 year ago 18
@snailsbeak Yes -- but what a way to go!
cathode1990 1 year ago
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I'm glad he had throat cancer when he died.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@snailsbeak He would argue he optimised what life had to offer him. Don't evaluate others through your own frame of reference!
MmeDesgranges 10 months ago
@JubalCalif He's certainly high on something. I do consider Errol to have been a very good actor, to the extent that he was underappreciated in his time. Hollywood would pound his door down now, if he was not otherwise pre-disposed (so to speak).
errolfan 1 year ago
@errolfan
Appreciate your insightful comment about the late great Mr Flynn, O' Fan of the Flynn! I totally agree with you that Hollywood would indeed be pounding on his door today if he were not "pre-disposed" (and will be for some time). Loved your use of the term "pre-disposed"...gave me a much needed chuckle! THANKS for your comment! :)
JubalCalif 1 year ago
I remember reading that his son Sean Flynn said when he was 14 and would bring his 14 yr old girlfriends home from school with him for a couple of hours to do homework or such, if he left her alone for just a few minutes, his father would have his girlfriend up in his bedroom in no time! Said his dad was always stealing his gf's from him, ha
lray1948 1 year ago
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Flynn was a good bisexual paedophile.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready your father was according to your brother
cathode1990 1 year ago
I can't tell you how important it is that we ponder, evaluate and make judgements about the the sexual orientations of dead people! He way gay, he was bi, he was straight? Who CARES what you "believe"? The man has been dead for 50 years, so the chances of his sexual orientation affecting a romantic liaison involving you or one of your loved ones has been greatly reduced. Better yet, why don't you assume he WASN'T straight; then you can get on with loathing him for all of eternity. Geez...
geroguy0472 1 year ago 8
So he dies two years later and they say that though 50, he ravaged his body to like 70. He claims he had a great life, so I guess we leave it at that. No tears.
spagandtuna 1 year ago
Errol was straight.....LOVED THE LADIES. GREAT ACTOR.
roostertrigger 1 year ago
Yep, I'm afraid Errol was drunk as a skunk.
TheLousyCafe1960 1 year ago
Was he on helium?
JasonRadley 1 year ago
he was in is cups
CK1223 1 year ago
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MPL029 1 year ago
@MPL029 The date of posting is still there, but it's below the screen, right next to the poster's "handle."
jmccracken1963 1 year ago
great actor...loved Robin Hood...
karaterocks99 1 year ago 2
To be more specific: He was straight.
FriendofRamblinJack 1 year ago 3
It seems to be a fashion today to state "I heard that he/she is bi" without any legitimate proof to back it up. The radical gays would love us all to think that every famous person was either gay or bi. Unless I have facts to back up it up, I will assume that he was straight.
TheBlueyedblond 1 year ago 10
He was, and even if he weren't, it is nobody's business. That is classless to even bring it up. THAT is what is missing in our world and Hollywood today: CLASS.
FriendofRamblinJack 1 year ago 3
Flynn had bouts of malaria and tuberculosis. He was also a chain smoker, an acoholic, an opium and morphine addict, and a pill popper. His underlying causes of death were myocardial infarction, coronary thrombosis, coronary atherosclerosis, liver degeneration, liver sclerosis, and diverticulitis of the colon. He also bedded more women than anyone can count. Flynn was the very definition of "hard living." I'm surprised he made it to the age of 50.
alounsbery 1 year ago
Flynn not only bedded many women, but also allegedly many underage girls and allegedly more than a few males. Flynn was tried for statuatory rape in the early 1940's and cleared of the charge.
TomBarristerX 1 year ago
@TomBarristerX Well, everyone's gotta have a hobby.
patterson65 1 month ago
He provided a sometimes dubious and ungrateful world a lot of entertainment and joy. None of us, though some think they do, walk on water. Thank you, Norbert, for posting these for those of us who appreciate them and miss them dearly.
FriendofRamblinJack 1 year ago
He lived his life for every moment. At least he was straight, unlike most of the metrosexual or gays in Hollywood today!
TheBlueyedblond 2 years ago
That's not necessarily true. Several people have said that Flynn was bisexual.
TomBarristerX 1 year ago
That was a crappy signature...
maxpowers518 2 years ago
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Flynn was a fucking MANIAC !
kenfig 2 years ago
I got a tingling feeling in my tummy
luvebug21 2 years ago 3
I have a thing for Bennet Cerf, he's so sexy!
bphutchins 2 years ago
most handsome actor
WiltatKansas 2 years ago 5
Enjoyed this very much. A legend who packed 150 years of living into a brief 50! Was he drunk here? If he wasn't at this stage of his life he wouldn't have been Flynn. He he was a much better actor than he believed himself to be. Considering he came from the golden age of so many actor/actresses and we still revere him today says something of his legend ! Watch all hs Warners movies All entertsaining .Thanks for this vide!d
lpvcrcd 2 years ago
Beverly Aadland, the 15 year old that Flynn was with at the time of his fatal heart attack, just passed away herself on January 5, 2010 in Lancaster, California.
Flynn was undoubtedly a charming rascal and talented actor with oodles of alpha male charisma. Unflinching self-assurance, playfulness and devil-may-care recklessness still form a potent brew that seduces many women.
Bigwave2003 2 years ago 5
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Captain Blood was a piece of crap like all the talentless rent boy Flynn's films. I'm glad he had cancer when he died. The Black Swan with his lover Ty Power was FAR better.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
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hey fucken cunt you made a comment on kevin soccer,this kid is now playing in argentina and you are sucking cocks and big ones just like mine,don't forget that u are fat and ugly, no girl friend,the only thing you do is eat all day,you fucken piece of shit
jn2006 2 years ago
"What's My Line" is the greatest game show of all time. John Daily is magnificent--suave, literate--virtually flawless. WML is a kind show that models manners, social graces & wit. That leads us to Errol Flynn. He brings suavite to a whole other level. He's got an infectious smile, ready wit & good looks. This clip & many of the other original WML clips on YT are priceless. They feature creative artists at mid-twentieth century & help us understand where we've come from & where we're going.
kolabiyao 2 years ago 16
@kolabiyao Ouch! Great comment until your very last one: "helps us understand where we've come from and where we're going." It's the where we're going part that didn't work for me, because I think that with today's fools masquerading as so-called celebrated persons, we actually lost our way. Don't you think?
spagandtuna 1 year ago
@kolabiyao Really? Where are we going?
Lunarmoonbase2 1 year ago
Incredable game show! it's a time capsule.
franklindavid 2 years ago 2
Freedom of Speech aside, I don't think that such uncuth remarks are necessary.
These remarks are one thing. Then such blantant screen names as well are as uncult and ignorant. People do not come here for that sort of trash.
RayPointer 2 years ago 4
I love old Errol too. Have you read his autobiography? Super piece of writing.
BlackenedForLife 2 years ago 18
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JanWest24 2 years ago
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my balls itch.
thedoors360 2 years ago
Hey, come on, you guys! Can't we appreciate and honor Errol Flynn without the nasty language? Just because that creep PeterFirthFan writes like that doesn't mean everyone else has to. It kind of cheapens this nice WML posting with Flynn. And Errol has been the target of so much vile slander, that it doesn't help to defend him using such language. Not being prudish, but just to keep it civil. It's better to diss the scandal mongerers with wit.
NorthBay65 2 years ago 14
don,t get upset, peter firth fanboy is merely a piece of shit on errol,s boot,s , i think he should lick himself off those boots...what do you say my good man?
MrWaynejohn 2 years ago 16
LOL... your blow job discription is rather fantastic, tell me my good man, have you written for big ta ta,s monthly ? i think i read your piece ...sharons bodacious tit,s get fucked
MrWaynejohn 2 years ago 10
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so is the rumour true that errol had a big cock ???
MrWaynejohn 2 years ago 16
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Flynn was just a talentless bisexual paedophile.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago