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Eric Flynn
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 in…
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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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1993
Peak Practice
TV show Paul Hanlon
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1991
An Actor's Life for Me
TV show Clive
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1988
The Zero Option
Movie Col. Patrick Ansell
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1987
Empire of the Sun
Movie British Prisoner
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1985
Deadly Passion
Movie Robert Chandler
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1982
Safari 3000
Movie Rally Team Interviewer
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1974
A Killer in Every Corner
Movie Michael Slattery
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1973
Thriller
TV show Michael Slattery
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1972
The Black Arrow
TV show Will Lawless
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1970
Ivanhoe
TV show Ivanhoe
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1968
The Caesars
TV show Germanicus
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1968
The Jazz Age
TV show Steve
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1968
Nana
TV show Daguenet
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1968
Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
Movie Leo Ryan
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1967
A Challenge for Robin Hood
Movie Alan-a-Dale
- 1965
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1965
The Fox and the Forest
Movie Faber
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1963
The Swindler
Movie Ken Gray
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1963
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Movie Lt. Philip Brackenbury
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1963
Doctor Who
TV show Leo Ryan
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1962
The Silent Invasion
Movie Erik von Strafen
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1961
The Avengers
TV show Croft
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1959
No Hiding Place
TV show
