Paul Lynch
Paul Lynch (born June 11, 1946) is an English-born Canadian film director and television director. He is a three-time Gemini Award and a Directors Guild of America Award nominee.
Paul Lynch
- Name
- Paul Lynch
- Born
- 11 June 1946
- Birthplace
- Liverpool, Merseyside, England
- Occupation
- Film director, television director
- Nationality
- Canada and United Kingdom.
- Languages
- English.
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Paul Lynch (born June 11, 1946) is an English-born Canadian film director and television director. He is a three-time Gemini Award and a Directors Guild of America Award nominee.
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Paul Lynch (born 1946) is a director, film director and screenwriter, among other activities, of Canadian and British nationality. The director was born in Liverpool. Languages used include English.
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• Name — Paul Lynch • Born — 11 June 1946 • Birthplace — Liverpool, Merseyside, England • Occupation — Film director, television director • Years Active — 1968–present
Life and career
Life and career
Lynch was born in Liverpool in 1946, and raised in Hoylake. His family emigrated to Canada in when he was 11-years-old, settling in Oakville, Ontario. He cited Stanley Kubrick and fellow Canadian director Sidney J. Furie as inspirations. He left school at age 16 to become a cartoonist for the Toronto Star and then served as a photographer for a number of small-town newspapers, as well as the Toronto Star, Maclean's and Toronto Life. This led to work in film, including a 90-minute documentary on Penthouse magazine commissioned by its publisher, Bob Guccione. His first feature film was The Hard Part Begins. This was followed by the box-office hit Prom Night, a straightforward slasher film starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielsen. Lynch has only made movies periodically, pursuing instead a career directing for American television.
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Television
• Petrocelli (1974) • Darkroom (1981) • Voyagers! (1982) • Murder, She Wrote (1984) • Moonlighting (1985) • The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985) • The Twilight Zone (1985) • Blacke's Magic (1986) • Mike Hammer (1987) • Tour of Duty (1987) • Beauty and the Beast (1987) • Star Trek: The Next Generation (episodes: "The First Duty", "11001001", "The Naked Now", "Unnatural Selection" and "A Matter of Time") • Hooperman (1988) • The Bronx Zoo (1988) • Beverly Hills Buntz (1988) • In the Heat of the Night (1989) • Top Cops (1990) • Dark Shadows (1991) • Matrix (1993) • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) (episodes: "A Man Alone", "Babel", "Q-Less", "The Passenger" and "Battle Lines") • Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1993) • Robocop: The Series (1994) • Due South (1994) • Lonesome Dove: The Series (1994) • Liberty Street (1994) • Xena: Warrior Princess (1995) • Land's End (1995) • Baywatch Nights (1995) • The Outer Limits (1995) • Viper (1995) • F/X: The Series (1996) • Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996) • The Magician's House (1999) • Sliders (1998-1999) • So Weird (1999-2001)
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Paul Lynch is recorded with the occupation television director. Recorded as a citizen of United Kingdom.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1946
Paul Lynch was born on 11 June 1946.
Films
Films
• The Hard Part Begins (1973) • Blood & Guts (1978) • Prom Night (1980) • Humongous (1982) • Cross Country (1983) • Mania (1986) • Flying (1986) • Bullies (1986) • Blindside (1987) • On the Prowl (1991) • No Contest (1995) • No Contest II (1997) • More to Love (1999) • Frozen with Fear (2000) • The Keeper (2004) • The Christmas Switch (2014)
Television films and miniseries
Television films and miniseries
• Teenage Marriage (1968) • Really Weird Tales (1986) • Cameo by Night (1987) • Going to the Chapel (a.k.a. Wedding Day Blues, 1988) • Maigret (1988) • She Knows Too Much (1989) • Murder by Night (a.k.a. Nightmare, 1989) • Double Your Pleasure (a.k.a. The Reluctant Agent, 1989) • How to Murder a Millionaire (1990) • Drop Dead Gorgeous (a.k.a. Victim of Beauty, 1991) • Spenser: Ceremony (1993) • Taken Too Far (2017)
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- 1."Paul Lynch: The filmmaker as working-class hero". Cinema Canada, March 1983.
- 2.Weisberg, Sam. Interview with Paul Lynch. Hidden Films. 2011-11-18.
- 3.Allon. Contemporary North American Film Directors. Wallflower Press. 2002. 978-1-903-36452-9.
- 4.Weisberg, Sam. Interview with Paul Lynch. Hidden Films. November 18, 2011.
- 5.Canby, Vincent. 'Prom Night,' Chiller from Canada, Masks Gore. The New York Times. August 16, 1980.
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