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