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Daniel Flynn
Born1961 (age 62–63)
Evesham, Worcestershire, England
OccupationActor
Spouse
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( m. 1990)​
Children2
Parent
Relatives Jerome Flynn (brother)
Johnny Flynn (half-brother)

Daniel Flynn (born 1961) is an English actor.

Early life

Flynn was born in Evesham, Worcestershire, the son of actor Eric Flynn and his wife Fern Warner; the family moved to Bromley, Kent, when he was a baby. He has a brother and sister; his brother is actor Jerome Flynn. [1] He also has a half-brother and sister from his father's second marriage; Johnny Flynn is a musician and actor. [2]

Career

Flynn has been acting on television since 1983. From 2006 until 2009, he played the role of Superintendent John Heaton in the long-running ITV1 police drama The Bill. He had previously had brief parts in The Bill playing a criminal in the episode "The Assassins" on 20 December 1988 and a Mr. Hemming in "Bringing Up Baby" in January 1993. Flynn's other television credits include Goodbye Mr Chips, The Detectives, The Peter Principle, Soldier Soldier, Peak Practice, Murder in Mind, William and Mary, Afterlife, Star Trap, and Island at War. He also starred as 'Ginger' in the motion picture Biggles: Adventures in Time.

Flynn has also worked as a voice actor. He supplied the voice of Pak the Banana in the English version of the Spanish animated series The Fruities and appeared in anime films including Angel Cop, Dark Myth, Cyber City Oedo 808 and both movies of The Heroic Legend of Arslan. He has voiced numerous video games, including Dark Souls, where he played Solaire of Astora, Vamos the Blacksmith and Giant Blacksmith. He was also Alfred in the game Bloodborne.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1986 Biggles Ginger
2013 All Stars Additional voice
2018 Another Day of Life Queiroz Voice

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1983 No Excuses Billy 4 episodes
1983 The Two Gentlemen of Verona Servant Television film
1984 Goodbye Mr. Chips Terris 2 episodes
1986 The Kit Curran Radio Show Bob Episode: "The Street of Shame"
1986 Call Me Mister Purcell Episode: "Running Time"
1988 Star Trap The Detective Television film
1988–2009 The Bill Supt. John Heaton 134 episodes
1989 Traffik Winwood Episode: "The Addict"
1989 Angel Cop Tachihara Episode: "Special Security Force"
1990 The Dark Myth Brahman Miniseries
1990–1991 Cyber City Oedo 808 Merrill 'Benten' Yanagawa 3 episodes
1992, 1994 Tokyo Babylon Seishirô 2 episodes
1993 Heidi John
1993 Casualty Dennis Episode: "Good Friends"
1993 The Buddha of Suburbia Simon 2 episodes
1993 Dominion Anchor / Cops Television short
1993–1995 The Heroic Legend of Arslan Narsus 4 episodes
1994 The Detectives Peter Burlington Episode: "Never Without Protection"
1994 Screen One Lt. Tim Bryant Episode: "A Breed of Heroes"
1994 Soldier Soldier Danny Garvey 2 episodes
1995 The Choir Roger Farrell 4 episodes
1997 Bugs Reinhold Episode: "Fugitive"
1997–2000 The Peter Principle David Edwards 12 episodes
1998 Peak Practice Dr. Henry Little Episode: "All Fall Down"
2003 Murder in Mind Pete Episode: "Stalkers"
2003 William and Mary Martin Owing Episode #1.3
2004 Island at War Hauptmann Dieter Muller 6 episodes
2005 The Murder Room FIO Anderson Episode #1.1
2005 Afterlife Donald Bardo Episode: "Lower Than Bones"
2007 War and Peace Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky 4 episodes
2009 Leipzig Homicide Supt. John Heaton Episode: "Entführung in London"
2009 Mr Baby Patrick Episode: "Daddy Cool"
2011 Vera Godfrey Waugh Episode: "The Crow Trap"
2012 Room at the Top George Aisgill Episode #1.1
2012 Young Dracula Ustrel Bouderon Episode: "Bootiful Breathers"
2013 The Last Days of Anne Boleyn Henry VIII Television film
2014 Line of Duty News Narrator Episode: "Carly"
2015 Lewis Jay Fennell 2 episodes
2015 Holby City Hugo Featherstone Episode: "Blue Christmas"
2015, 2018 Father Brown Daniel Whittaker 2 episodes
2017 Level Up Norge Vileblood Hunter Alfred Episode: "Fyll mitt hull: Bloodborne #5"
2021 Unforgotten Geoff Tomlinson 6 episodes
2022 The Crown Andrew Parker Bowles Episode: "The Way Ahead"

References

  1. ^ "Eric Flynn (obituary)". The Telegraph. 16 March 2002. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
  2. ^ Maxford, Howard (8 November 2019). Hammer Complete: The Films, the Personnel, the Company. McFarland. ISBN  978-1-4766-2914-8.

External links

Daniel Flynn at IMDb

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