Gérard Depardieu

He married Bond Girl Carole Bouquet in 1997. See also Rafael Sabatini, author of the novels The Sea Hawk and Captain Blood, for the roots of Flynn's screen image. He also did "Le Retour de Martin Guerre" in 1982. Sirocco, the LP from which the song was taken, was named after Flynn's yacht. In addition to the nearly sixty motion-pictures he has appeared in, he has also directed and/or produced several major films through his company, "DD Productions". It was a Top 20 Australian hit in 1981. Depardieu is the highest paid actor in France, and one of the most powerful within the French film industry. In popular music, Flynn was the inspiration for the song "Errol", which was recorded by the '80s rock group Australian Crawl.

His most significant English-language productions are Green Card with Andie MacDowell and 1492: Conquest of Paradise. Author Charles Higham published a controversial biography, Errol Flynn: The Untold Story (Doubleday, 1980) in which he alleged that Flynn was a fascist sympathiser and that he spied for the Nazis before and during World War II, but subsequent biographies—notably Tony Thomas' Errol Flynn: The Spy Who Never Was (Citadel, 1990)—have denounced Higham's claims as fabrications. In the 1990s he achieved some fame in North America too. Errol Flynn is interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California. In addition he also earned the following:. His mother, a former fashion model, died on the Flynn family estate in Jamaica after a hard life of alcohol and drug addiction. He has been nominated a record-setting 14 times for the Cesar Award as Best Actor. After his first win in 1981, he won a second time in 1991 for Cyrano de Bergerac for which he was also nominated for the 1990 Academy Award for Best Actor. One of Errol Flynn's grandsons, sometime model Luke Flynn (birth name Luke Stoecker, born 1976), the only child of Arnella Flynn (1953-1998) and fashion photographer Carl Stoecker, was named one of the world's sexiest bachelors by People magazine in 2003.

His acting career started in the 1970s and by the early 1980s, he was one of the leading French actors gaining much attention for his role opposite Fanny Ardant in Francois Truffaut's film La Femme d'à côté (The Woman Next Door), and winning his first Cesar Award for Best Actor for his role in Le Dernier métro. The younger Flynn's life was recounted in Inherited Risk by Jeffrey Meyers (Simon & Schuster). He was born in Chateauroux, Centre, France, the son of a sheet metal worker. His only son, Sean Flynn, became an actor and later a war correspondent who disappeared in Cambodia in 1970 during the Vietnam Conflict. Gérard Depardieu (born December 27, 1948) is a French actor. He planned to marry her and move to their new house in Jamaica, but during their trip to Vancouver he had his heart attack. Cinema of France. In the late 1950s, he met the 14-year-old Beverly Aadland at the Hollywood Professional School, whom he courted during the following few years.

Maitresse - (1973). Flynn was married three times, to actress Lili Damita from 1935 until 1942 (one son, Sean); to Nora Eddington (1924–2001) from 1943 until 1948 (two daughters, Deirdre and Rory); and to actress Patrice Wymore from 1950 until his death (one daughter, Arnella Roma). Les Valseuses - (1974). Flynn wanted to call the book In Like Me, but his publishers refused. 1900 - (1976). His somewhat unreliable autobiography, My Wicked, Wicked Ways, was published just months after his death from a heart attack and contains humorous anecdotes about Hollywood. La Femme d'à côté - (1981). But he still won some acclaim as a drunken ne'er-do-well in The Sun Also Rises (1957).

Le Dernier métro - (1981). By the mid 1950s, he was something of a self-parody; heavy alcohol abuse had left him noticeably bloated in his last years. Police (movie) - (1985). The trial took place in January and February of 1943, and Flynn was cleared of the crime, but he suffered both personally and in his career. Jean de Florette - (1986). Buckley, Jr. Camille Claudel - (1989). A group organized to support Flynn called the American Boys Club for the Defense of Errol Flynn (ABCDEF); its members included William F.

Green Card - (1990) (English). He was well known for having wild parties; his reputation caught up with him when teenagers Betsy Hansen and Peggy Satterlee charged him with statutory rape in November 1942. Cyrano de Bergerac - (1990). His reputation as a womanizer led to the expression "In like Flynn". Uranus - (1990). During the shooting of The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), Flynn and co-star Bette Davis had some legendary off-screen fights. 1492: Conquest of Paradise - (1992) (English). He appeared in eight films with Olivia de Havilland.

My Father, the Hero - (1994) (English). He also played opposite Olivia de Havilland in the western movie Dodge City (1939). Bogus - (1996) (English). He was typecast as a swashbuckler and made several such films including The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) (widely regarded as his best film in this genre and an acknowledged Hollywood classic) The Sea Hawk (1940), and The Adventures of Don Juan (1949). The Man in the Iron Mask - (1998) (English). Although he hadn't really planned on an acting career, Flynn become a star with his third film, Captain Blood, in 1935. Le comte de Monte Cristo - (1999) (TV miniseries). Upon gaining some experience in the acting trade, he moved to Hollywood looking for film work.

Balzac: A Life of Passion - (1999). In the early 1930s he returned to Britain and in 1933 he managed to get an acting job with Northampton Repertory Theatre where he worked for two years. Un Pont entre deux rives (The Bridge) - (2000) - (Acted, Produced & Directed). Shortly afterwards he moved to New Guinea where he drifted from job to job. 102 Dalmatians - (2000). As a child he was taken to Sydney, where he attended two schools, and was expelled from both. Les Misérables - (2001) - (TV miniseries co-produced by Depardieu). Errol Leslie Thompson Flynn (June 20, 1909–October 14, 1959), was a film actor born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia most famous for his romantic swashbuckler roles.

Le Placard (The Closet) - (2001). I Am Dina - (2002). CQ - (2002). 1997: Lion d'or: Venice Film Festival.

1991: winner Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his role in Green Card. 1990: Best Actor Award: Cannes Film Festival for his role in Camille Claudel. 1985: Best Actor Award: Venice Film Festival for his role in Police.