Errol Flynn filmography

Films

Television

Short films

Unmade films

• Danton based on Danton's Death and to be produced by Max Reinhardt and directed by William Diertele
• The White Rajah – based on the life of Sir James Brooke based on Flynn's own story
• The Romantic Adventure – a romantic comedy with Joan Blondell based on an original story by Jerry Wald and Maurice Leo
• The Outpost based on Caesar's Wife by Somerset Maugham starring Flynn and Geraldine Fitzgerald directed by Michael Curtiz
• Shanghai from a story by Somerset Maugham
• Jupiter Laughs from the play by A. J. Cronin
• The Life of Simón Bolívar – possibly with Bette Davis
• The Sea Devil – a remake of The Sea Beast which was adaptation of Moby Dick
• Ghosts Don't Leave Footprints – sequel to Footsteps in the Dark
• To the Last Man – comedy with Alexis Smith
• The Devil, George and Rosie – from a story by John Collier to star Flynn, Ann Sheridan and Humphrey Bogart
• The Frontiersman – an original western by Alan Le May about the beginning of a riverboat operation in the Mississippi to be produced by Flynn and Mark Hellinger with Raoul Walsh directing
• Stallion Road, based on a novel, with Ida Lupino
• Target Japan with producer Jerry Wald and director Raoul Walsh about a B-29 bombing crew
• The Man Without Friends based on story by Margaret Eckhard about a man accused of the murder of his wife to be produced by Henry Blanke and adapted by Catherine Turney
• untitled adventure film "in the Frank Buck tradition" shot off the coast of Mexico produced by Flynn
• Thunder Valley – a Western written by James Webb and produced by Owen Crump
• General Crack – remake of General Crack originally filmed starring John Barrymore
• Half Way House – an "alpine thriller" by Frances Potter and Spencer Rice
• The Turquoise with Claude Rains and Dorothy Malone based on the adventure novel by Anya Seton – set in the American southwest in the 1890s, written by Edmund North produced by William Jacobs
• The Candy Kid with producer Bill Jacobs – story of a gambler in the days of Diamond Jim Brady from a script by Borden Chase based on a magazine story by Michael MacDougall
• The Last of the Buccaneers – a pirate movie based on a script by Flynn himself to be produced by Flynn, shot in technicolor with the star as a Robin Hood type pirate – another source said this was to be about Bully Hayes and called The Last Buccaneer
• story of the female pirate Mary Burns with Greer Garson
• The Man Who Cried – production with William Marshall described as a psychological thriller about the perfect crime which took place over four hours
• The Man from Sparta – movie to be shot in Italy about Spartacus
• The Bengal Tiger
• Fire Over Africa
• The Green Moss from a magazine serial by John Molloy to co-star Gordon Macrae directed by Roy del Ruth
• The Talisman from the novel by Sir Walter Scott
• Abdulla the King in the title role with Dawn Addams directed by Gregory Ratoff
• Dragonfly – proposed adventure film from producer John Champion set in the Far East with Flynn as an air force officer whose command is threatened with desertion.
• The White Witch of Rose Hall – to be made with Herbert Wilcox based on a Jamaican legend about a female plantation owner who was a witch and killed her husbands – to be produced by Barry Mahon – Flynn was still working on it in 1957 saying he wanted Bob Evans to star and Charles Marquis Warren to direct
• Lord Vanity – with Robert Wagner
• Ten Days to Talara with the same director of The Big Boodle about an adventurer whose son is kidnapped
• untitled Debbie Reynolds project as her teetotal father

  Films made with other actors

• Sylvia Scarlett – the part played by Brian Aherne
• Four Daughters – part played by Jeffrey Lynn
• The Adventures of Marco Polo – Flynn was wanted by original director William Wyler
• Captain Horatio Hornblower – eventually made in 1951 with Gregory Peck
• The Constant Nymph with Olivia de Havilland – part played by Charles Boyer
• Affectionately Yours
• In This Our Life – part played by George Brent
• Reap the Wild Wind – part played by John Wayne
• Mr. Skeffington
• Saratoga Trunk – part played by Gary Cooper
• One Last Fling – part played by Zachary Scott
• The Hucksters – part played by Clark Gable
• The Heiress – William Wyler reportedly wanted Flynn for the part played by Montgomery Clift
• Mr. Imperium with Greer Garson
• Carson City – announced for Flynn and John Wayne
• Dallas
• King Solomon's Mines – Stewart Granger replaced him
• Ivanhoe

  Box office rankings

• 1937 – 11th
• 1938 – 21st, 14th
• 1939 – 8th, 7th
• 1940 – 14th, 7th, 4th
• 1941 – 14th
• 1942 – 17th, 15th |*1943 – 17th
• 1946 – 25th, 10th biggest Western star