Eric Flynn

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 Flynns 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 threeyear acting degree at The Central School of Speech and Drama in 2007 and his son Johnny is also an actor and singer