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
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Full filmography
- Doctor Who (1963) as Leo Ryan
- The Avengers (1961) as Croft
- Peak Practice (1993) as Paul Hanlon
- No Hiding Place (1959)
- Thriller (1973) as Michael Slattery
- The Jazz Age (1968) as Steve
- Empire of the Sun (1987) as British Prisoner
- The Black Arrow (1972) as Will Lawless
- The Caesars (1968) as Germanicus
- An Actor's Life for Me (1991) as Clive
- Nana (1968) as Daguenet
- Ivanhoe (1970) as Ivanhoe
- Safari 3000 (1982) as Rally Team Interviewer
- Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963) as Lt. Philip Brackenbury
- The Zero Option (1988) as Col. Patrick Ansell
- The Silent Invasion (1962) as Erik von Strafen
- Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space (1968) as Leo Ryan
- A Challenge for Robin Hood (1967) as Alan-a-Dale
- The Fox and the Forest (1965) as Faber
- Mr. Brown Comes Down The Hill (1965)
- Deadly Passion (1985) as Robert Chandler
- The Swindler (1963) as Ken Gray
- A Killer in Every Corner (1974) as Michael Slattery