Paul Lynch

Paul Lynch (born November 6, 1946 in Liverpool , England ) is a British-Canadian director .

Life and accomplishments

Lynch was born in the UK and moved to Canada in 1960 . He dropped out of school, drew newspaper cartoons for the Toronto Star , then worked as a newspaper photographer and eventually turned to film directing. His first feature film was the drama Weg ohne Ziel (1973). He then directed the slasher film Prom Night with Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis . In his approximately 25-year career, Lynch directed around 60 projects, switching between feature films, television films and television series.

At the 1986 Berlin International Film Festival he was nominated for the Golden Bear for Mania - American Tales of Terror . He received Gemini Award nominations in 1992, 1993 and 1995 for directing The Beauty Prize , Top Cops and Robocop . In 1999 he won the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival for More to Love .

Filmography (selection)

Director

• 1973: The Hard Part Begins
• 1980: Prom Night - Night of the Butcher (Prom Night) 1982 Humongous (Humongous)
• 1986: Dreams Come True (Flying)
• 1985–1990: Bradbury's Chamber of Horrors (The Ray Bradbury Theater)
• 1986: Mania - American Tales of Terror (Mania)
• 1988: Wedding Fever (Going to the Chapel)
• 1989: She Knows Too Much
• 1985–1989: Twilight Zone - Unknown Dimensions ( The Twilight Zone , TV series, 9 episodes)
• 1989: Murder by Night
• 1989: Agent times two (Double Your Pleasure)
• 1991: Dark Shadows (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1991: Top Cops
• 1991: The Price of Beauty (Drop Dead Gorgeous)
• 1987–1992: Spaceship Enterprise: The Next Century ( Star Trek: The Next Generation , TV series, 5 episodes)
• 1993: Combat Zone (Spenser: Ceremony)
• 1993: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV series, 5 episodes)
• 1994: Running Out - Countdown of Death (No Contest)
• 1994: Robocop ( RoboCop , TV series, 5 episodes)
• 1997: Running out II - The countdown continues (No Contest II)
• 1996–1997: F / X: The Series (TV series, 8 episodes)
• 1997–1998: Poltergeist - The uncanny power ( Poltergeist: The Legacy , TV series, 4 episodes)
• 1998–1999: Sliders - The Gate into a Foreign Dimension ( Sliders , TV series, 3 episodes)
• 1999: More to Love
• 2000: In the Labyrinth of Fear (Frozen with Fear)
• 1999–2001: So Weird (TV series, 10 episodes)
• 2004: The Keeper (The Keeper)
• 2007: Savage Planet (TV movie)

script

• 1989: In the Heat of the Night ( In the Heat of the Night , television series, 1 episode)
• 1999: More to Love
• 2003: Detention - The lesson is survival! (Detention)

Web links

• Paul Lynch in the Internet Movie Database (English)