Eric Flynn
Known For
Acting
Born
1939-12-13 in Hainan Island, China
Died
2002-03-04
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
Most Known For
Doctor Who
as Leo Ryan
The Avengers
as Croft
Peak Practice
as Paul Hanlon
No Hiding Place
Thriller
as Michael Slattery
Empire of the Sun
as British Prisoner
The Black Arrow
as Will Lawless
The Jazz Age
as Steve
The Caesars
as Germanicus
Nana
as Daguenet
Ivanhoe
as Ivanhoe
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
as Lt. Philip Brackenbury
A Challenge for Robin Hood
as Alan-a-Dale
Safari 3000
as Rally Team Interviewer
Deadly Passion
as Robert Chandler
A Killer in Every Corner
as Michael Slattery
The Swindler
as Ken Gray
The Zero Option
as Col. Patrick Ansell
Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
as Leo Ryan