Eric Flynn

Known for ActingBorn 1939-12-13Died 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. 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 singerRead more

Movies & web series

A Killer in Every Corner

The Caesars

Doctor Who

Empire of the Sun

The Avengers

The Black Arrow

An Actor's Life for Me

Mr. Brown Comes Down The Hill

Thriller

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

Peak Practice

Deadly Passion

The Silent Invasion

Ivanhoe

A Challenge for Robin Hood

Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space

Safari 3000

No Hiding Place

The Zero Option

The Jazz Age

Nana

The Fox and the Forest

The Swindler