Paul Lynch | |
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Born | Liverpool, England, UK | July 11, 1946
Occupation(s) | film director and television director |
Years active | 1968 – present |
Paul Lynch (born July 11, 1946) is a Canadian film director and television director. [1]
Lynch came to Canada in 1960. He left school to become a cartoonist for the Toronto Star and then served as a photographer for a number of small-town newspapers. 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 . [2] This was followed by the box-office hit Prom Night , a straightforward slasher film starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielsen. [3] Lynch has only made movies periodically, pursuing instead a career directing for American television.
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