Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 13, 1939
Died
Mar 04, 2002
Place of Birth
Hainan Island, China
Credits
23 titles
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
Peak Practice
Paul Hanlon
An Actor's Life for Me
Clive
The Zero Option
Col. Patrick Ansell
Empire of the Sun
British Prisoner
Deadly Passion
Robert Chandler
Safari 3000
Rally Team Interviewer
A Killer in Every Corner
Michael Slattery
Thriller
Michael Slattery
The Black Arrow
Will Lawless
Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe
The Caesars
Germanicus
The Jazz Age
Steve
Nana
Daguenet
Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
Leo Ryan
A Challenge for Robin Hood
Alan-a-Dale
Mr. Brown Comes Down The Hill
The Fox and the Forest
Faber
The Swindler
Ken Gray
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Lt. Philip Brackenbury
Doctor Who
Leo Ryan
The Silent Invasion
Erik von Strafen
The Avengers
Croft
No Hiding Place