Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn

Overview

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adventures, loves and excess was largely played out in front of the camera - either making movies or filling the newsreels and gossip magazines. Tragically he was dead from the effects of drugs and alcohol by the time he was only 50 & the myths live on. But there is another side of Flynn that is less well known - his ambitions to be a serious writer and newspaper correspondent, his documentary films and his interest in the Spanish Civil War and Castro's Cuba

Directed by Simon Nasht

Top cast

Christopher Lee

Narrator (voice)

D

Deirdre Flynn

Self

R

Rory Flynn

Self

J

Jeffrey Meyers

Self - Biographer

J

John Hammond Moore

Self - Biographer

P

Peter Valenti

Self - Biographer

L

Lincoln Hurst

Self - Film Historian

Vincent Sherman

Self - Film Director & Friend

I

Ila Andrews

Self - School Friend

K

Kathryn Medlock

Self - Zoologist

K

Kathryn Medlock

Self - Zoologist, Tasmanian Museum

J

Jack Marino

Self - Actor

N

Nora Eddington

Self

B

Beverly Aadland

Self

K

Kyra Pahlen

Self

Christopher Stollery

Additional Voices

Nell Feeney

Additional Voices

Gary Files

Additional Voices

Errol Flynn

Self (archive footage)

Don Knotts

Self (archive footage)

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