Posthumous Cultural References
- The 1965 Marvel Comics character Fandral, a companion of the Norse God Thor and a member of the Warriors Three, was based on the likeness of Flynn by co-creator Stan Lee. Actor Joshua Dallas, who played the character in Thor, based his portrayal on Flynn.
- Errol Flynn's life was the subject of the opera Flynn (1977–78) by British composer Judith Bingham. The score is titled: Music-theatre on the life and times of Errol Flynn, in three scenes, three solos, four duets, a mad song and an interlude.
- The Errol Flynns were a criminal organization founded on the east side of Detroit, Michigan during the 1970s.
- Australian Crawl recorded a lyrical biography of Flynn, "Errol", released in July 1981 and reached No.18 on the Australian singles charts. The song was taken from the album Sirocco, named after one of Flynn's yachts.
- The 1982 movie My Favorite Year featured Peter O'Toole as a drunken, womanizing actor who finds redemption appearing on a TV show. The similarities between Flynn and the character "Alan Swan" are numerous and unmistakable, save that the movie had a happy ending and Flynn's life did not.
- Roman Polanski's 1986 film, Pirates was intended to pay homage to the beloved Errol Flynn swashbucklers of his childhood.
- The 1987 book Glitter Baby by Susan Elizabeth Phillips features Errol Flynn as the father of the protagonist, his illegitimate daughter.
- In 2005, a small waterfront reserve in Sandy Bay, a suburb of Flynn's hometown of Hobart, was renamed from Short Beach to the "Errol Flynn Reserve".
- The Pirate's Daughter, a 2008 novel by Margaret Cezair-Thompson, is a fictionalised account of Flynn's later life.
- In June 2009 the Errol Flynn Society of Tasmania Inc. organised the Errol Flynn Centenary Celebration, a 10-day series of events designed to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth On the actual centenary, 20 June 2009, his daughter Rory Flynn unveiled a star with his name on the footpath outside Hobart's heritage State Cinema.
- In 2009, the Port Antonio mega-yacht marina in the northeastern coast of Jamaica underwent a name change to the Errol Flynn Marina.
- The 2010 novel Errol, Fidel and the Cuban Rebel Girls by Boyd Anderson is a fictionalised account of the last year of Flynn's life in Cuba.
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