Anthony Borden Ward (born June 10, 1963) better known as Tony Ward, is an Americanmodel and actor.
Early life
Anthony Borden Ward aka Tony Ward was born in Santa Cruz, California
on June 10, 1963 to Robert Borden Ward, from Kansas and Karen Elizabeth
Castro of California. Ward is the second of three sons and spent his
childhood mostly in San Jose before moving to Sonora where he graduated
from high school. From there he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dream
of being an actor/model/dancer.
In 1996, Ward had his first starring role in the movie Hustler White, directed by Bruce LaBruce. Ward reunited with LaBruce playing a homeless junkie in the 2010 zombie thriller, L.A. Zombie.
Personal life
Ward was Madonna's boyfriend in the beginning of the 1990s and he appeared in some of her music videos as well as the controversial SEX book in 1992. He is a father of three.
Twice married, Eastwood has fathered seven children by five different women. In 1968 and 1970, he respectively engaged in on-location affairs with co-stars Jean Seberg (Paint Your Wagon) and Jo Ann Harris (The Beguiled).At one point in the 1980s, Eastwood dated Barbra Streisand.
Eastwood married Maggie Johnson on December 19, 1953, six months after they met on a blind date.However, their matrimony would not prove altogether smooth, with
Eastwood later acknowledging that he had married at too young of an age
(twenty-three). A decade later, while separated from Johnson, Eastwood
engaged in an affair with Rawhide stuntwoman and bit actress
Roxanne Tunis (who was also married yet separated), fathering his first
child, Kimber Tunis (born June 17, 1964); he did not publicly
acknowledge her until 1996. After a reconciliation, he had two children with Johnson: Kyle Eastwood (born May 19, 1968) and Alison Eastwood
(born May 22, 1972). Eastwood filed for divorce in 1979 after another
long separation, but the $25 million divorce settlement was not
finalized until May 1984.
Eastwood entered into a relationship with co-star Sondra Locke in the fall of 1975 while shooting The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Their relationship lasted almost fourteen years, despite the fact that
Locke remained married to her gay husband, Gordon Anderson, throughout
that period. Locke had two abortions and a tubal ligation within the first four years of the relationship. The couple co-starred in six films together: The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Gauntlet, Every Which Way but Loose, Bronco Billy, Any Which Way You Can, and Sudden Impact. After divorcing Maggie Johnson in 1984, Eastwood asked for Locke's hand in marriage, but she refused to leave Gordon Anderson.
Their relationship especially soured in the late eighties when Eastwood
first learned that Locke was attempting to evict the superstar's
live-in, USC student son (Kyle Eastwood) and then when Eastwood learned
that Locke was discussing a palimony suit against him with a divorce
lawyer. On April 10, 1989, while Locke was directing the film Impulse, Eastwood changed the locks on their Bel Air home and had many of her possessions removed and placed in storage. Locke filed a palimony suit against Eastwood, then sued him a second time for fraud, regarding an underwritten directing contract he set up for her in settlement of the first lawsuit. Eastwood and Locke finally resolved the dispute with a non-public settlement in 1999.
During the last four years of his increasingly strained relationship
with the still-married Locke, Eastwood engaged in a somewhat
surreptitious affair with flight attendant Jacelyn Reeves. According to
biographers, the two met at a pub in Carmel and conceived a son, Scott Reeves (born March 21, 1986), at the premiere of Pale Rider. They also had a daughter, Kathryn Reeves (born February 2, 1988). The birth certificates for both children stated "Father declined."
Although authorized biographer Richard Schickel mentioned them in his
1996 book about the star, Eastwood did not present his and Reeves'
children to the public until 2002. Kathryn served as Miss Golden Globe at the 2005 ceremony where she presented Eastwood with an award for Million Dollar Baby.
In 1990, Eastwood began living with actress Frances Fisher, whom he had met on the set of Pink Cadillac (1989). They co-starred in Unforgiven, and had a daughter, Francesca Fisher-Eastwood (born August 7, 1993). The couple ended their relationship in early 1995, but remain friends and later acted together in True Crime.
Eastwood subsequently began dating Dina Ruiz, a television news anchor 35 years his junior, whom he had first met when she interviewed him in 1993. They married on March 31, 1996, when Eastwood surprised her with a private ceremony at a home on the Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas.After their wedding, Dina commented "The fact that I am only the second woman he has married really touches me." The couple has one daughter, Morgan Eastwood (born December 12, 1996).
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) was an Australian-born actor. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his playboy lifestyle. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1942.
Early life
Errol Flynn was born in Hobart, Tasmania, where his father, Theodore Thomson Flynn, was a lecturer (1909) and later professor (1911) of biology at the University of Tasmania.
Flynn was born at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Battery Point. His
mother was born Lily Mary Young, but dropped the first names Lily Mary
shortly after she was married and changed her name to Marelle. Flynn described his mother's family as "seafaring folk"
and this appears to be where his lifelong interest in boats and the sea
originated. Despite Flynn's claims, the evidence indicates that he was
not descended from any of the Bounty mutineers. Married at St. John's Church of England, Balmain North, Sydney, New South Wales, on 23 January 1909,
both of his parents were native-born Australians of Irish, English, and
Scottish descent, with convict links to Tasmania long before Flynn's
birth. Flynn, living at Mclean Avenue Chatswood, Sydney in 1926, attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore School) where he was the classmate of future Australian Prime Minister, John Gorton. He was expelled for fighting and, allegedly, having sex with a school laundress. He was also expelled from several other schools he had attended in Tasmania. At the age of 20 he moved to New Guinea where he bought a tobacco plantation, a business which failed. A copper mining venture in the hills near the Laloki Valley, behind the present national capital, Port Moresby, also failed.
In the early 1930s, Flynn left for England, and in 1933 he secured an acting job with the Northampton repertory company at the town's Royal Theatre, where he worked for seven months. He also performed at the 1934 Malvern Festival and in Glasgow and London's West End.
In 1933, he starred in the Australian film In the Wake of the Bounty, directed by Charles Chauvel, and in 1934 appeared in Murder at Monte Carlo, produced at the Warner Bros.Teddington Studios, England. This latter film is now considered a lost film. During the filming of Murder at Monte Carlo, Flynn was discovered by a Warner Brothers executive, signed to a contract and emigrated to America as a contract actor. He became a naturalised citizen of the United States in 1942, eight months after America entered World War II.
Acting career
Flynn as Captain Blood
Flynn was an overnight sensation in his first starring role,Captain Blood (1935). Quickly typecast as a swashbuckler, he followed it with The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936). After his appearance as Miles Hendon in The Prince and the Pauper (1937), he was cast in his most celebrated role as Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), his first film in Technicolor. He went on to appear in The Dawn Patrol (1938) with David Niven, Dodge City (1939), The Sea Hawk (1940) and Adventures of Don Juan (1948).
Working throughout his career with a cross section of Hollywood's
best fight arrangers, Flynn became noted for his fast-paced sword fights
as seen in The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk and Captain Blood.
Flynn co-starred with Olivia de Havilland in eight films: Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Four's a Crowd (1938), Dodge City (1939), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), Santa Fe Trail (1940), and They Died with Their Boots On (1941).
While Flynn acknowledged his attraction to de Havilland, film historian Rudy Behlmer's assertions that they were romantically involved during the filming of Robin Hood (see the Special Edition of Robin Hood on DVD, 2003) have been disputed by de Havilland. In an interview for Turner Classic Movies, she said that their relationship was platonic, mostly because Flynn was already married to Lili Damita.
During the shooting of The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), Flynn and co-star Bette Davis
quarrelled off-screen, causing Davis to allegedly strike him harder
than necessary while filming a scene. Although their relationship was
always strained, Warner Bros.
co-starred them twice. Their off-screen relationship was later
resolved. A contract was even drawn up to lend them out for the roles of
Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, but that prospect failed to materialise.
Flynn was a member of the Hollywood Cricket Club with David Niven.
His suave, debonair, and devil-may-care attitude toward both ladies and
life has been immortalised in the English language by author Benjamin
S. Johnson as, "Errolesque," in his treatise on the subject, An Errolesque Philosophy on Life.
When Flynn became a naturalised American citizen on 15 August 1942,
he also became eligible for the military draft, as the United States had
entered World War II eight months earlier. Grateful to the country that
had given him fame and wealth,
Flynn attempted to join every branch of the armed services, but he had
several health problems. His heart was enlarged, with a murmur, and he
had already suffered at least one heart attack. That was not all: he had
recurrent malaria (contracted in New Guinea),
chronic back pain (for which he self-medicated with morphine and later,
with heroin), lingering chronic tuberculosis, and numerous venereal
diseases. Flynn, famous for his athletic roles and promoted as a paragon
of physical beauty, was classified 4-F – unqualified for military service because of not meeting the minimum physical fitness standards.
This created a public image problem for both Flynn and Warner
Brothers. Flynn was often criticised for his failure to enlist while
continuing to play war heroes in films. The studios' failure to counter
the criticism was due to a desire to hide the state of Flynn's health.
He was also expensive – in the late 1940s his fee was $200,000 a film.
By the 1950s, Flynn had become a parody of himself. Heavy alcohol and
drug abuse left him prematurely aged and bloated. In 1952 he became
seriously ill with hepatitis and liver failure. He won acclaim as a drunken ne'er-do-well in The Sun Also Rises (1957), and as his idol John Barrymore in Too Much, Too Soon (1958). Flynn starred in a 1956 anthology seriesThe Errol Flynn Theatre
that was filmed in England, where he presented the episodes and
sometimes appeared in them. About this time he also guest starred on NBC's comedy/variety show, The Martha Raye Show.
Flynn and Beverly Aadland met with Stanley Kubrick to discuss appearing together in Lolita.
Flynn went to Cuba in late 1958 to film Cuban Rebel Girls. He met the rebel leader Fidel Castro, not yet known to be a communist. Flynn was a great supporter of Castro and narrated a short movie titled Cuban Story: The Truth About Fidel Castro Revolution, one of his last works as an actor.
Personal life
Lifestyle
Flynn had a reputation for womanizing. His freewheeling, hedonistic
lifestyle caught up with him in 1942 when two under-age girls, Betty
Hansen and Peggy Satterlee, accused him of statutory rape, alleging that the event occurred at the Bel Air home of Flynn's friend Frederick McEvoy
A group was organized to support Flynn, named the American Boys' Club
for the Defense of Errol Flynn (ABCDEF); its members included William F. Buckley, Jr.
The trial took place in January and February 1943, and Flynn was
cleared of the charges. The incident served to increase his reputation
as a ladies' man. It is believed this is the source of the phrase, "In like Flynn."
Marriages and family
Flynn and first wife Lili Damita at Los Angeles airport in 1941.
Flynn was married three times: to actress Lili Damita from 1935 until 1942 (one son, Sean Flynn, born 1941, reported missing in Cambodia in 1970 and presumed dead); to Nora Eddington from 1943 until 1949 (two daughters, Deirdre born 1945 and Rory born 1947); and to actress Patrice Wymore
from 1950 until his death (one daughter, Arnella Roma, 1953–98). In
Hollywood, he tended to refer to himself as Irish rather than Australian
(his father Theodore Thomson Flynn had been a biologist and a professor at the Queen's University of Belfast in Northern Ireland during the latter part of his career). Flynn lived with Wymore in Port Antonio,
Jamaica in the 1950s. He was largely responsible for developing tourism
to this area, and for a while owned the Titchfield Hotel, which was
decorated by the artist Olga Lehmann. He also popularised trips down rivers on bamboo rafts.
Flynn was a long-time friend of the painter Boris Smirnoff, who painted his portrait several times, as well as those of Lili Damita, Patrice Wymore and celebrity friends such as Edward G. Robinson, Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer and Barbara Stanwyck.
The gossips took note of his friendships with Carole Lombard, Marlene Dietrich and Dolores del Río.
Dietrich flaunted her promiscuity throughout her life, and Del Río
allegedly succumbed to Flynn's charm immediately, but Lombard is said to
have resisted his advances. She had already met and fallen in love with
Clark Gable, but she liked Flynn and invited him to her extravagant soirees.
In the late 1950s, Flynn met and courted the 15-year-old Beverly Aadland at the Hollywood Professional School, casting her in his final film, Cuban Rebel Girls (1959). According to Aadland, he planned to marry her and move to their new house in Jamaica, but during a trip together to Vancouver, British Columbia, he died of a heart attack at the age of 50.
His only son, Sean, an actor and later a noted war correspondent, disappeared in Cambodia in 1970 during the Vietnam War while working as a freelance photojournalist for Time magazine. Flynn was presumed dead in 1971, probably murdered by the Khmer Rouge.
In 1984, he was officially declared dead in a granted petition of
declaration sought by his mother, Lili Damita. Sean's life was recounted
in Inherited Risk by Jeffrey Meyers (Simon & Schuster), and he is also mentioned on page 194 in the Colleagues section of Dispatches by Michael Herr.
Flynn's daughter Rory has one son, Sean Rio Flynn, named after her half-brother. He is an actor. Rory Flynn has written a book about her father entitled The Baron of Mulholland: A Daughter Remembers Errol Flynn.
Death
Errol Flynn's coffin on Los Angeles Union Station train platform in 1959.
Errol Flynn's grave
Flynn flew with Aadland to Vancouver, Canada, on 9 October 1959, to lease his yacht Zaca
to millionaire George Caldough. On 14 October, Caldough was driving
Flynn to the airport when Flynn felt ill. He was taken to the Vancouver
apartment of Caldough's friend, Dr. Grant Gould, uncle of pianist Glenn Gould.
A party ensued, with Flynn regaling guests with stories and
impressions. Feeling ill again, he announced "I shall return" and
retired to a bedroom to rest. A half hour later, Aadland checked in on
him and discovered him unconscious. Flynn had suffered a heart attack.
According to the Vancouver Sun
(16 December 2006), "When Errol Flynn came to town in 1959 for a
week-long binge that ended with him dying in a West End apartment, his
local friends propped him up at the Hotel Georgia
lounge so that everyone would see him." The story is a myth; following
Flynn's death, his body was turned over to a coroner (George Brayshaw),
who performed an autopsy, and released his body to his next of kin. The
results of the autopsy discovered that Flynn had a number of ailments
including: "fatty degeneration of the liver, portal cirrhosis of the
liver and diverticulosis of the colon."
Years of hard living had apparently taken a toll on Flynn's body and an
unnamed official from the coroner's office said the actor's body was
that "of a tired old man—old before his time, and sick."
Errol Flynn is interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California. Both of his parents survived him.
