1939-12-13 Hainan 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 singer
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The Zero Option | Col. Patrick Ansell | 1988-11-19 |
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Empire of the Sun | British Prisoner | 1987-12-09 |
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Deadly Passion | Robert Chandler | 1985-04-11 |
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Safari 3000 | Rally Team Interviewer | 1982-05-01 |
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A Killer in Every Corner | Michael Slattery | 1974-11-19 |
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Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space | Leo Ryan | 1968-06-01 |
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A Challenge for Robin Hood | Alan-a-Dale | 1967-07-01 |
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Mr. Brown Comes Down The Hill | 1965-12-12 | |
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Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow | Lt. Philip Brackenbury | 1963-12-06 |
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The Swindler | Ken Gray | 1963-12-15 |
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The Silent Invasion | Erik von Strafen | 1962-12-01 |
