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Sean Leslie Flynn, born May 31, 1941 - died April 6, 1970, was an American actor and freelance photojournalist.
Flynn was the son of actors Errol Flynn and Lili Damita.
During the Vietnam Conflict, Sean Flynn was working as a freelance photo journalist under contract to Time Magazine when he and fellow journalist Dana Stone went missing in Cambodia on a road south of Phnom Penh, on April 6, 1970. Although Lili Damita spent an enormous amount of money searching for her son, he was never found and in 1984 was declared legally dead. He is among the 22 international journalists missing in Southeast Asia, most known to have been captured.
Sean Flynn was immortalized by The Clash in the song "Sean Flynn" from the album Combat Rock. Sean Flynn is a major character in Michael Herr's "Dispatches," perhaps the most acclaimed American literary treatment of the Vietnam War. Herr's friendship with Flynn during his years in Vietnam is vividly described.
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