Actor
Eric Flynn
Born December 13, 1939 in Hainan Island, China
Died March 4, 200212 films
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).
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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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First watchEmpire of the Sun19877.5as British PrisonerJamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps.View filmFilmography
12 films as actor- 1988The Zero OptionCol. Patrick Ansell
- 1987Empire of the SunBritish Prisoner
- 1985Deadly PassionRobert Chandler
- 1982Safari 3000Rally Team Interviewer
- 1974A Killer in Every CornerMichael Slattery
- 1968Doctor Who: The Wheel in SpaceLeo Ryan
- 1967A Challenge for Robin HoodAlan-a-Dale
- 1965Mr. Brown Comes Down The Hill
- 1965The Fox and the ForestFaber
- 1963The SwindlerKen Gray
- 1963Dr. Syn, Alias the ScarecrowLt. Philip Brackenbury
- 1962The Silent InvasionErik von Strafen