Eric Flynn
Known for ActingBorn 1939-12-13 — died 2002-03-04Hainan 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.
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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
1987 · as British Prisoner
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
1963 · as Lt. Philip Brackenbury
Safari 3000
1982 · as Rally Team Interviewer
The Fox and the Forest
1965 · as Faber
The Zero Option
1988 · as Col. Patrick Ansell
Deadly Passion
1985 · as Robert Chandler
Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
1968 · as Leo Ryan
The Silent Invasion
1962 · as Erik von Strafen
Mr. Brown Comes Down The Hill
1965
A Challenge for Robin Hood
1967 · as Alan-a-Dale
The Swindler
1963 · as Ken Gray
A Killer in Every Corner
1974 · as Michael Slattery