Eric Flynn
Actor
- Born
- December 13, 1939 · Hainan Island, China
- Died
- March 4, 2002 (age 62)
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.
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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
Empire of the Sun
December 9, 1987
A Challenge for Robin Hood
July 1, 1967
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
December 6, 1963
The Silent Invasion
December 1, 1962
Safari 3000
May 1, 1982
Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
June 1, 1968
Deadly Passion
April 11, 1985
A Killer in Every Corner
November 19, 1974
The Zero Option
November 19, 1988
The Fox and the Forest
November 22, 1965
Acting12
- 1988The Zero Option as Col. Patrick Ansell
- 1987Empire of the Sun as British Prisoner
- 1985Deadly Passion as Robert Chandler
- 1982Safari 3000 as Rally Team Interviewer
- 1974A Killer in Every Corner as Michael Slattery
- 1968Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space as Leo Ryan
- 1967A Challenge for Robin Hood as Alan-a-Dale
- 1965Mr. Brown Comes Down The Hill
- 1965The Fox and the Forest as Faber
- 1963The Swindler