Eric Flynn

Acting

Born December 13, 1939, Hainan Island, China

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

Filmography

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