Eric Flynn
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
Credits
- 1993 · Peak Practice as Paul Hanlon
- 1987 · Empire of the Sun as British Prisoner
- 1985 · Deadly Passion as Robert Chandler
- 1974 · A Killer in Every Corner as Michael Slattery
- 1973 · Thriller as Michael Slattery
- 1972 · The Black Arrow as Will Lawless
- 1970 · Ivanhoe as Ivanhoe
- 1968 · The Caesars as Germanicus
- 1968 · The Jazz Age as
- 1968 · Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space as Leo Ryan
- 1967 · A Challenge for Robin Hood as Alan-a-Dale
- 1965 · Mr. Brown Comes Down The Hill as
- 1963 · Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow as Lt. Philip Brackenbury
- 1963 · Doctor Who as Leo Ryan
- 1962 · The Silent Invasion as Erik von Strafen
- 1961 · The Avengers as Croft
- 1959 · No Hiding Place as