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The autopsy also revealed that he was suffering from genital warts. Even though in the last years of his life he played a number of roles as an aging alcoholic, mirroring his own life, he was on his way to remaking his image as a serious actor.
Errol Flynn was regaling Vancouver society with tales of globetrotting swashbuckle. Hours later Canadian pathologists were scrutinizing his legendary genitalia.
TIL that actor Errol Flynn had such massive genital warts upon his death that Vancouver's chief pathologist removed them and soaked them in formaldehyde to allow medical students to research them. When the city's coroner heard this, he immediately scotch taped Flynn's warts back onto to his penis.
Of all the leading man types who rose to fame during the Golden Age of Hollywood, American-Australian actor Errol Flynn might just be the most famous — or in...
Flynn’s heart had definitely stopped, but all his other organs were so shot that the coroner ultimately ruled his death as due to “natural causes.” The most notably damaged organ, it turned out, was Flynn’s penis, which was beset by a collection of enormous genital warts.
Flynn bitterly believed himself a “phallic symbol,” notoriously equated with sex. He was also a braggart who constantly advertised his sexual prowess and peccadilloes.
Their findings were largely consistent with the L.A. coroner’s report—the cause of death having been a heart attack—but, during the final moments of examination, McDonald and Harmon discovered something else: several large venereal warts on the end of Flynn’s penis.
