# 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), Unforgotten (2021) and The Crown (2022), and Solaire Of Astora in the FromSoftware 2011 game Dark Souls.

## 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

| 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 | 2 episodes |
| 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" |