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 e...
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Mr. Brown Comes Down The Hill
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
As Lt. Philip Brackenbury
A Challenge for Robin Hood
As Alan-a-Dale
Empire of the Sun
As British Prisoner
Deadly Passion
As Robert Chandler
The Silent Invasion
As Erik von Strafen
Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
As Leo Ryan
A Killer in Every Corner
As Michael Slattery
Doctor Who
As Leo Ryan
The Avengers
As Croft
No Hiding Place
The Caesars
As Germanicus
The Jazz Age
Thriller
As Michael Slattery
Peak Practice
As Paul Hanlon
The Black Arrow
As Will Lawless
Ivanhoe
As Ivanhoe