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Flynn's body was found lying at the bottom of his swimming pool, weighed down by the weight of a cast on his broken leg, having suffered a heart attack while in the pool.

In April, 1974, he was beaten and robbed of a watch at a Florence, South Carolina motel. He was in town with his wife as a guest speaker for a meeting of the American Cancer Society.

He was watching himself in Der Würger von Sing-Sing (1956) when the audience began laughing, even though he was playing a serious role. This made him realize that comedy was his forte.

In a 1971 television interview, he claimed to have appeared in more Disney films than any other actor in the history of Disney, a total of 13. Joe made several more Disney films between 1971 and his untimely death in 1974, two of those films released posthumously.

During World War II, served stateside in a performance troupe called Hank's Yank's. Did ventriloquism with a dummy named MacGreggor.

Best known as the co-star of many Disney films in the 1960s and '70s and as Captain Binghamton on "McHale's Navy".

Died before last two films were released.

Was part of the cast of the movie Das Fenster zum Hof (1954), but his scene was ultimately cut.

Interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, USA, in section B, L320, #10.