
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1939-12-13
Deathday
2002-03-04
Place of Birth
Hainan Island, China
Eric Flynn
Biography
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
Known For

Empire of the Sun
as British Prisoner

Doctor Who
as Leo Ryan

The Avengers
as Croft

A Challenge for Robin Hood
as Alan-a-Dale

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
as Lt. Philip Brackenbury

Thriller
as Michael Slattery

Peak Practice
as Paul Hanlon

The Caesars
as Germanicus

The Silent Invasion
as Erik von Strafen

Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
as Leo Ryan