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By instinct I'm an adventurer by choice I'd like to be a writer by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

Errol Flynn

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Errol Flynn
Age: 50 †
Born: 1909
Born: June 20
Died: 1959
Died: October 14
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Screenwriter
Battery Point
Tasmania
Australia
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn
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Pure
Writer
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