All All. Sign In. Hollywood Bad Boys. List activity. Lawrence Tierney. Actor Soundtrack Reservoir Dogs Legendary Hollywood "tough guy", on screen and off. Remembered as the title character in Dillinger and as the consummately brutal lover of Claire Trevor in Born to Kill Notorious for his frequent, well-publicized barroom brawls and the like, including being stabbed in In his later years, he continued as a screen actor projecting the hard-as-nails mien that has been ingrained since his younger days, as evidenced in Quentin Tarantino 's Reservoir Dogs Tierney's numerous arrests for being drunk and disorderly and jail terms for assault of civilians and lawmen alike took a toll on his career.
He was an admitted alcoholic who went sober in after having a mild stroke, once observing he "threw away about seven careers through drink. His legal troubles included a day sentence for breaking a college student's jaw. At the time of a arrest for fighting two policemen outside a Manhattan bar the New York Times reported he had been arrested six times in California and five in New York on similar charges.
In he was stabbed in a bar fight on the West Side of Manhattan In June , Tierney was questioned by New York City police in connection with the apparent suicide of a year old woman who had jumped from the window of her apartment. Tierney told police he'd come to visit the woman, "had just gotten there, and she just went out the window". Errol Flynn. Young Flynn was a rambunctious child who was always sure to find trouble, and he managed to get himself ejected from every school in which he was enrolled.
In his late teens he set out to find gold, but instead found only a series of short-lived odd jobs. Information is sketchy, however the positions of police constable, sanitation engineer, treasure hunter, sheep castrator, ship-master for hire, fisherman, and soldier seem to be among his more reputable career choices. The necessity to stay at least one jump ahead of the law--and jealous husbands--forced Flynn to flee to England, where he took up acting, into which he had previous stumbled when he was asked to play ironically Fletcher Christian in a film called In the Wake of the Bounty Flynn's natural athletic talent and good looks attracted the attention of Warner Brothers and soon he was off to America.
His luck held when he replaced Robert Donat in the title role of Captain Blood He quickly rocketed to stardom as the undisputed king of adventure films, a title inherited from Douglas Fairbanks , though which remains his to this day. Onscreen, he was the freedom loving rebel, a man of action who fought against injustice and won the hearts of damsels in the process.
