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'' 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,

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. His first feature film was ''

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''. This was followed by the box-office hit '' Prom Night'', a straightforward

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starring

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and

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. Lynch has only made movies periodically, pursuing instead a career directing for American television.

Filmography

Films

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'' (1973) *'' Blood & Guts'' (1978) *'' Prom Night'' (1980) *'' Humongous'' (1982) *''Cross Country'' (1983) *'' Blindside'' (1986) *'' Flying'' (a.k.a. ''Dream to Believe'', 1986) *''

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'' (1986) *''On the Prowl'' (1991) *''

No Contest ' is a legal term that comes from the Latin phrase for "I do not wish to contend". It is also referred to as a plea of no contest or no defense. In criminal trials in certain United States jurisdictions, it is a plea where the defendant neith ...

'' (1995) *''

No Contest II ''No Contest II'' is a 1996 action film starring Shannon Tweed, Bruce Payne and Lance Henriksen. It is a sequel to ''No Contest''. Plot Erich Dengler (Lance Henriksen), the son of Manferd Dengler (a prominent Nazi during the rule of Adolf Hitler ...

'' (a.k.a. ''Face the Evil'', 1997) *''More to Love'' (1999) *'' Frozen with Fear'' (2000) *'' The Keeper'' (2004)

Television films

*''Teenage Marriage'' (1968) *''Mania'' (1986) *''Really Weird Tales'' (1987) *''Cameo by Night'' (1987) *''Going to the Chapel'' (a.k.a. ''Wedding Day Blues'', 1988) *''

Maigret Jules Maigret (), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a '' commissaire'' ("commissioner") of the Paris ''Brigade Criminelle'' ('' Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres''), created b ...

'' (1988) *''She Knows Too Much'' (1989) *'' Murder by Night'' (a.k.a. ''Nightmare'', 1989) *''Double Your Pleasure'' (a.k.a. ''The Reluctant Agent'', 1989) *''Drop Dead Gorgeous'' (a.k.a. ''Victim of Beauty'', 1991) *''Spenser: Ceremony'' (1993) *'' Savage Planet'' (2007)

Television series

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Petrocelli ''Petrocelli'' is an American legal drama that ran for two seasons on NBC from September 11, 1974 to March 31, 1976. Plot Tony Petrocelli is an Italian-American, Harvard-educated lawyer, who grew up in South Boston and gave up the big money and ...

'' (1974) *''

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'' (1981) *''

Voyagers! ''Voyagers!'' is an American science fiction television series about time travel that aired on NBC from October 3, 1982, to July 10, 1983, during the 1982–1983 season. The series starred Jon-Erik Hexum and Meeno Peluce. Opening narration Pl ...

'' (1982) *''

Murder, She Wrote ''Murder, She Wrote'' is an American crime drama television series, created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson and William Link, starring Angela Lansbury, and produced and distributed by Universal Television for the CBS network. The series f ...

'' (1984) *''

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'' (1985) *''

The Ray Bradbury Theater ''The Ray Bradbury Theater'' is an anthology series that ran for three seasons on First Choice Superchannel in Canada and HBO in the United States from 1985 to 1986, and then on USA Network, running for four additional seasons from 1988 to 19 ...

'' (1985) *''

The Twilight Zone ''The Twilight Zone'' is an American media franchise based on the anthology television series created by Rod Serling. The episodes are in various genres, including fantasy, science fiction, absurdism, dystopian fiction, suspense, horror, su ...

'' (1985) *''

Blacke's Magic ''Blacke's Magic'' is an American crime drama television series that aired for 13 episodes on NBC, from January 5 to May 7, 1986. Reruns later aired during the fall of 1988, to fill scheduling gaps caused by the 1988 Writers Guild of America stri ...

'' (1986) *''

Mike Hammer Michael Hammer or Mike Hammer may refer to: *Michael Armand Hammer (1955–2022), American philanthropist and businessman *Michael Martin Hammer (1948–2008), engineer and author *Mike Hammer (character), a fictional hard boiled detective ** ''Mick ...

'' (1987) *''

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'' (1987) *''

Beauty and the Beast ''Beauty and the Beast'' (french: La Belle et la Bête) is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in ''La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins'' ( ...

'' (1987) *'' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' (episodes: "

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", "

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", " The Naked Now", " Unnatural Selection" and " A Matter of Time") *''

Hooperman ''Hooperman'' is an American comedy-drama television series which aired on ABC from September 23, 1987, to July 19, 1989. The show centered on the professional and personal life of San Francisco police Inspector Harry Hooperman, played by John R ...

'' (1988) *''

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'' (1988) *''

Beverly Hills Buntz ''Beverly Hills Buntz'' is an American comedy-drama television series and a spin-off of the acclaimed police drama ''Hill Street Blues''. Beverly Hills Buntz aired on NBC from November 5, 1987, to April 22, 1988. Overview The show was a half-h ...

'' (1988) *'' In the Heat of the Night'' (1989) *''

Top Cops ''Top Cops'' is a documentary program broadcast in the United States on the CBS television network from 1990 to 1993. Reruns aired on the USA Network in 1996. Each episode of ''Top Cops'' consisted of two to three segments featuring commende ...

'' (1990) *''

Dark Shadows ''Dark Shadows'' is an American gothic soap opera that aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show depicted the lives, loves, trials, and tribulations of the wealthy Collins family of Collinsport ...

'' (1991) *''

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'' (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 Land's End ( kw, Penn an Wlas or ''Pedn an Wlas'') is a headland and tourist and holiday complex in western Cornwall, England, on the Penwith peninsula about west-south-west of Penzance at the western end of the A30 road. To the east of it is ...

'' (1995) *''

Baywatch Nights ''Baywatch Nights'' is an American police and science-fiction drama series that aired in syndication from 1995 to 1997. Created by Douglas Schwartz, David Hasselhoff, and Gregory J. Bonann, the series is a spin-off from the television series, '' ...

'' (1995) *'' The Outer Limits'' (1995) *''

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'' (1995) *'' F/X: The Series'' (1996) *'' Poltergeist: The Legacy'' (1996) *'' The Magician's House'' (1999) *''

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'' (1998-1999) *''

So Weird ''So Weird'' is a television series that aired on the Disney Channel as a mid-season replacement from January 18, 1999, to September 28, 2001. The series was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia. In the first two seasons, the series centered on ...

'' (1999-2001)

References

External links

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Paul Lynch at Northern Stars
– Canadians in the Movies {{DEFAULTSORT:Lynch, Paul 1946 births Living people Canadian film directors Canadian television directors English-language film directors English emigrants to Canada Film people from Liverpool