- 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.
- 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.
- He was watching himself in Indestructible Man (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.
- Best known as the co-star of many Disney films in the 1960s and '70s and as Captain Binghamton on "McHale's Navy".
- Interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, USA, in section B, L320, #10.
- During World War II, served stateside in a performance troupe called Hank's Yank's. Did ventriloquism with a dummy named MacGreggor.
- Was part of the cast of the movie Rear Window (1954), but his scene was ultimately cut.
- Died before last two films were released.
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