[2] Buster Wiles was a stuntman and screen double during this period, working on a number of Flynn's most popular films, such as The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1936).
In his book Wiles recounts numerous escapades he had with Flynn during Hollywood's "Golden Age", and he provides behind-the-scenes insight into the productions he made with the legendary actor.
One of those scenes is an iconic one in American film history and also involves Howard Hill, who by the late 1930s was widely regarded as "The World's Greatest Archer".
Wiles in the book explains how the famous "splitting-the-arrow" scene in Flynn's "swashbucker" The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) was accomplished.
Vernon "Buster" Wiles was born in Missouri, raised in Tennessee, and worked in Hollywood as a stuntman and double for some twenty years.