Who says there’s no audience for old Black & White films, for Classic Hollywood? The World Entertainment New Network has awarded Errol Flynn the top spot in its 2007 Best Movie Pirates Poll. Flynn, star of such swashbuckling hits as Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk, beat out Johnny Depp’s Captain Sparrow, from the Pirates Of The Caribbean series, as the Number One Movie Pirate of all time.

And yet, it might never have been.

ROBERT DONAT as CAPTAIN BLOOD ???

Robert Donat was all set to play the title character in the 1935 WB pirate epic. But Donat inexplicably failed to appear as shooting was beginning. Turned down next by second choice Brian Aherne, a desperate WB turned to the frighteningly inexperienced 25 year-old Australian-born Errol Flynn.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

And what a history! Few, if any, actors have ever had a ten year run like Errol Flynn had from 1935 – 1945. Consider just some of the highlights:

Captain Blood, Charge Of The Light Brigade, Prince And The Pauper, Adventures Of Robin Hood, The Dawn Patrol, Dodge City, The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex, Santa Fe Trail, The Sea Hawk, They Died With Their Boots On, Desperate Journey, Gentleman Jim, Edge Of Darkness, Northern Pursuit, and Objective Burma.

If, in the post-WW II years, Flynn rarely recaptured his earlier triumphs, there are success worth revisiting: The Sun Also Rises, the Roots Of Heaven, Kim, Master Of Ballantrae, and, in what might be considered art imitating life: Too Much, Too Soon, in which Flynn played John Barrymore.

Inescapably, there is the tabloid Flynn: Boozer, womanizer, all-around hellion. Certainly, there is no denying this hell-raising Flynn, but there is a flip side to the man, a side which only someone who knew the man as a father could know.

This Sunday, September 2, at 8 pm ET, on ICONS Radio Hour, Rory Flynn, daughter of Errol Flynn, discusses her father’s career, in all its wild fluctuations, and his very public and very private off-screen world. Without ignoring the tabloid image of her father, Rory Flynn brings to life another man entirely; a man passionately devoted to his children. In a fascinating discussion with MODA’s Steve Bogart and John Mulholland, Rory Flynn explores the sensitive, passionate man she knew, first and foremost, as her father.