{{Short description|British boxer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}} {{Use British English|date=June 2015}} {{Infobox person | image = <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people. Non-free and "fair use" images, e.g. promo photos, CD/DVD covers, posters, screen captures, etc., will be deleted - see WP:NONFREE --> | image_size = | name = Jimmy Flint | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|11|06|df=y}} | birth_place = Wapping, East London, England | birth_name = | years_active = 1952–present | occupation = Boxer, actor }}
'''Jimmy''' "'''The Wapping Assassin'''" '''Flint''' (born 6 November 1952) is a British actor and retired boxer.
== Early life and boxing ==
Jimmy was born and brought up in Wapping, East London as the son of a docker. Jimmy started off his amateur boxing career in 1963 at the Broad Street Boxing Club in Stepney. He then went on to start his professional boxing career in 1973 as a Featherweight.<ref name="box">{{cite web|url= http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=33024&cat=boxer |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141227044316/http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=33024&cat=boxer |url-status= dead |archive-date= 27 December 2014 |title= Jimmy Flint Boxing record |publisher=Box Rec }}</ref> In 1981, is final fight was the Final Eliminator for 'BBB of C' British Featherweight Title, at the Royal Albert Hall, Kensington, London, where he lost by knock out in the 4th round to Welshman Steve Simms.<ref name="box"/> Following that fight, he retired in 1981; his record was Won 27 (17 by KO), drawn - 0, lost - 3.<ref name="box"/>
== Acting career ==
After getting frustrated with boxing, Jimmy got involved in acting with the director Ron Peck in the film ''Empire State''. With the success of the film, this prompted his passion for acting and writing. Shortly afterwards Jimmy wrote the one man play entitled 'The Wapping Assassin'<ref name="hit">{{cite web|url= http://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/other-sport/norfolk-boxing/flint_scores_a_hit_with_wapping_assassin_1_666291?action=logout/ |title=''The Wapping Assassin'' |publisher=EDP |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813131020/http://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/other-sport/norfolk-boxing/flint_scores_a_hit_with_wapping_assassin_1_666291?action=logout%2F |archivedate=13 August 2012 }}</ref> after his own life story. He has subsequently appeared in major films such as ''The Krays'' and Guy Ritchie's ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'' and ''Revolver''.
==Partial filmography==
* ''The Bill'' (2010) * ''Rise of the Footsoldier'' (2007) * ''Revolver'' (2005) * ''Messiah: The Promise'' (2004) * ''Kavanagh QC'' (1999) * ''Casualty'' (1999) * ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'' (1998) * ''Real Money'' (1996) * ''Look at It This Way'' (1992) * ''Uncle Vanya BBC'' (1991) * ''Hands of a Murderer'' (1990) * ''The Krays'' (1990) * ''Fighters'' (1988) * ''Empire State'' (1987)
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://jimmy-flint.com/biography.html] Jimmy Flint Biography * {{IMDb name|0282398}} * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120314144155/http://www.britishboxing.net/boxers_13236-Jimmy-Flint.html]}} Jimmy Flint Boxing Record * [http://www.fightsrec.com/jimmy-flint.html] Fight Records
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