10 Actors Whose Careers Never Rebounded
10. Errol Flynn
It takes an insane level of debauchery to be thrown out of William Randolph Hearst's - a man accused of killing an actor on his yacht - castle, but that was just how Errol Flynn rolled.
Proving that all Australians are crazy on some level, the actor stormed Hollywood as the second coming of Douglas Fairbanks, starring in swashbucklers like The Adventures of Robin Hood and had rule over Hollywood throughout the 30s and 40s.
He also dominated women, some of them underage. Two such women came forward with accusations of statutory rape, but Flynn's power was too strong, humiliating his accusers and proving one got an abortion (illegal at the time). Nevertheless, his career and reputation was never quite the same. Though he did come back to Hollywood, he did his share of traveling in between to shake off the bad vibe his name gave producers.
Most notably, Flynn hooked up with this strange, rebellious cat down in Cuba named Fidel Castro. Both men enjoyed a good cigar, so Flynn was actually the only journalist in-country the night the dictator won the revolution - footage of which was found only in 2009 in a short film he narrated entitled Cuban Story: The Truth About Fidel Castro Revolution - his final work.
There was talk of him appearing in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita - a role that, given his personal viices, would have been ideal, though nothing ever came of it.