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Paul Lynch
b. November 6, 1946 in Liverpool, England.


<Paul Lynch © R.A.Lucas>
Photo of Paul Lynch © 2010 by Ralph Lucas. Used with permission.

Paul Lynch moved 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 ninety-minute documentary on Penthouse magazine commissioned by its publisher, Bob Guccione. His first feature was The Hard Part Begins, considered to be a classic of early English-Canadian cinema. This was followed by the box-office hit Prom Night, a prototypical slasher film. Lynch has only made features periodically, pursuing, instead, a career directing for American television.

Paul Lynch was interviewed by Sam Weisberg in November of 2011.




Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release


The Hard Part Begins (1973)
Blood & Guts (1978)

Prom Night (1980)
Humongous (1982)
Cross Country (1983)
Mania (1986)
Flying (1986)
Bullies (1986)
Blindside (1986)
Really Weird Tales (TV-1987)
Maigret (TV-1988)
Going to the Chapel (TV-1988)
She Knows Too Much (TV-1989)
Murder By Night (TV-1989)
Double Your Pleasure (TV-1989)

Drop Dead Gorgeous (TV-1991)
On the Prowl (1991)
No Contest (1994)
No Contest II (1997)
The Magician's House (TV-1999)
More to Love (1999)

Frozen with Fear (2000)
The Keeper (2004)
Savage Planet (TV-2006)


TV Series - At least 1 episode of:
Petrocelli (1974)
Darkroom (1981)
Voyagers (1982)
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Moonlighting (1985)
The Ray Bradbury Theatre (1985)
The Twilight Zone (1985)
Tour of Duty (1987)
Beauty and the Beast (1987)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Dark Shadows (1991)
Matrix (1993)
Robocop (1994)
Due South (1994)
Xena: Warrior Princess (1995)
Land's End (1995)
Baywatch Nights (1995)
The Outer Limits (1995)
Viper (1996)
F/X: The Series (1996)
Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996)
So Weird (1999-2001)







<Prom Night>

Prom Night costarred
Leslie Nielsen and Jamie
Lee Curtis. Jeff Wincott
and David Gardner also
had roles
.




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