Paul Lynch (born June 11, 1946) is an English-born Canadian film director and television director."Paul Lynch: The filmmaker as working-class hero". Cinema Canada, March 1983. He is a three-time Gemini Award and a Directors Guild of America Award nominee.
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.
Filmography
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
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)
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)
References
External links
Paul Lynch at Northern Stars – Canadians in the Movies