Place of Birth: Hainan Island, China
Eric Flynn
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
Movie | Cast | Year |
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Mr. Brown Comes Down The Hill | 1965 | |
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow | Lt. Philip Brackenbury | 1963 |
A Challenge for Robin Hood | Alan-a-Dale | 1967 |
Empire of the Sun | British Prisoner | 1987 |
Deadly Passion | Robert Chandler | 1985 |
The Silent Invasion | Erik von Strafen | 1962 |
Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space | Leo Ryan | 1968 |
A Killer in Every Corner | Michael Slattery | 1974 | Series | Cast | Year |
Doctor Who | Leo Ryan | 1963 |
The Avengers | Croft | 1961 |
No Hiding Place | 1959 | |
The Caesars | Germanicus | 1968 |
The Jazz Age | 1968 | |
Thriller | Michael Slattery | 1973 |
Peak Practice | Paul Hanlon | 1993 |
The Black Arrow | Will Lawless | 1972 |
Ivanhoe | Ivanhoe | 1970 |