Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
December 13, 1939
Place of Birth:
Hainan Island, China
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Eric Flynn
Biography
Eric Flynn was born on 13 December 1939 on Hainan Island, China, where his father was a customs officer for the Hong Kong government. After the outbreak of war and the Japanese invasion of China, his family spent several years interned in a Japanese prisoner of war camp (50 years later he would play a British prisoner in the film Empire of the Sun, set in a Japanese prison of war camp in China).
He returned to Britain at the age of 13, and was educated at Chatham House School in Ramsgate. He then gained a scholarship to Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), where he met his first wife Fern.
Flynn's sons by his first marriage, Daniel and Jerome, are both actors. He also had a daughter, Kerry, by his first marriage. Flynn married his second wife Caroline, a South African, in 1981. His daughter from his second marriage, Lillie Flynn, finished a three-year acting degree at The Central School of Speech and Drama in 2007 and his son, Johnny, is also an actor and singer
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | The Zero Option | Col. Patrick Ansell |
| 1987 | Empire of the Sun | British Prisoner |
| 1985 | Deadly Passion | Robert Chandler |
| 1974 | A Killer in Every Corner | Michael Slattery |
| 1968 | Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space | Leo Ryan |
| 1967 | A Challenge for Robin Hood | Alan-a-Dale |
| 1965 | Mr. Brown Comes Down The Hill | |
| 1963 | Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow | Lt. Philip Brackenbury |
| 1963 | The Swindler | Ken Gray |
| 1962 | The Silent Invasion | Erik von Strafen |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Peak Practice | Paul Hanlon |
| 1973 | Thriller | Michael Slattery |
| 1972 | The Black Arrow | Will Lawless |
| 1970 | Ivanhoe | Ivanhoe |
| 1968 | The Caesars | Germanicus |
| 1968 | The Jazz Age | Steve |
| 1963 | Doctor Who | Leo Ryan |
| 1961 | The Avengers | Croft |
| 1959 | No Hiding Place |