Daniel Flynn (actor)

Daniel Flynn (born 1961) is an English actor. His credits include Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986), The Detectives (1994), Soldier Soldier (1994), Peak Practice (1998), Murder in Mind (2003), William and Mary (2003), Afterlife (2005), The Bill (2006–2009), Solaire of Astora in the 2011 FromSoftware game Dark Souls, Unforgotten (2021), and The Crown (2022).

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. He also has a half-brother and sister from his father's second marriage; Johnny Flynn is a musician and actor. Flynn is an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1982 with an Acting (RADA Diploma).

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.

In 2021, he starred as Geoff Tomlinson in six episodes of Unforgotten, and in 2022, he appeared as Andrew Parker Bowles in The Crown.

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 (1995), Dark Myth, Cyber City Oedo 808 (1995), and both movies of The Heroic Legend of Arslan (1995). He has voiced numerous video games, including Dark Souls (2011), where he played Solaire of Astora, Vamos the Blacksmith and Giant Blacksmith. He was also Alfred in the game Bloodborne (2015).

Filmography

Film +YearTitleRoleNotes1986BigglesGinger2013All StarsAdditional voice2018Another Day of LifeQueirozVoice

Television YearTitleRoleNotes1983No ExcusesBilly4 episodes1983The Two Gentlemen of VeronaServantTelevision film1984Goodbye Mr. ChipsTerris2 episodes1986The Kit Curran Radio ShowBobEpisode: "The Street of Shame"1986Call Me MisterPurcellEpisode: "Running Time"1988Star TrapThe DetectiveTelevision film1988–2009The BillSupt. John Heaton134 episodes1989TraffikWinwoodEpisode: "The Addict"1989Angel CopTachiharaEpisode: "Special Security Force"1990The Dark MythBrahmanMiniseries1990–1991Cyber City Oedo 808Merrill 'Benten' Yanagawa3 episodes1992, 1994Tokyo BabylonSeishirô2 episodes1993HeidiJohn1993CasualtyDennisEpisode: "Good Friends"1993The Buddha of SuburbiaSimon2 episodes1993DominionAnchor / CopsTelevision short1993–1995The Heroic Legend of ArslanNarsus4 episodes1994The DetectivesPeter BurlingtonEpisode: "Never Without Protection"1994Screen OneLt. Tim BryantEpisode: "A Breed of Heroes"1994Soldier SoldierDanny Garvey2 episodes1995The ChoirRoger Farrell4 episodes1997BugsReinholdEpisode: "Fugitive"1997–2000The Peter PrincipleDavid Edwards12 episodes1998Peak PracticeDr. Henry LittleEpisode: "All Fall Down"2003Murder in MindPeteEpisode: "Stalkers"2003William and MaryMartin OwingEpisode #1.32004Island at WarHauptmann Dieter Muller6 episodes2005The Murder RoomFIO AndersonEpisode #1.12005AfterlifeDonald BardoEpisode: "Lower Than Bones"2007War and PeaceAndrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky4 episodes2009Leipzig HomicideSupt. John HeatonEpisode: "Entführung in London"2009–2010Mr. BabyPatrick48 episodes2011VeraGodfrey WaughEpisode: "The Crow Trap"2012Room at the TopGeorge AisgillEpisode #1.12012Young DraculaUstrel BouderonEpisode: "Bootiful Breathers"2013The Last Days of Anne BoleynHenry VIIITelevision film2014Line of DutyNews NarratorEpisode: "Carly"2015LewisJay Fennell2 episodes2015Holby CityHugo FeatherstoneEpisode: "Blue Christmas"2015, 2018Father BrownDaniel Whittaker2 episodes2017Level Up NorgeVileblood Hunter AlfredEpisode: "Fyll mitt hull: Bloodborne #5"2021UnforgottenGeoff Tomlinson6 episodes2022The CrownAndrew Parker BowlesEpisode: "The Way Ahead"

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