Paul Lynch (born June 11, 1946) is a Canadian film director and television director.
Lynch came to Canada in 1960. He left school to become a cartoonist for the ''
Toronto Star
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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,
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
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starring
Jamie Lee Curtis
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and
Leslie Nielsen
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Nielsen was bo ...
.
Lynch has only made movies periodically, pursuing instead a career directing for American television.
Filmography
Films
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The Hard Part Begins'' (1973)
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Blood & Guts'' (1978)
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Prom Night'' (1980)
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Humongous'' (1982)
*''Cross Country'' (1983)
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Blindside'' (1986)
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Flying'' (a.k.a. ''Dream to Believe'', 1986)
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Bullies'' (1986)
*''On the Prowl'' (1991)
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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)
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No Contest II'' (a.k.a. ''Face the Evil'', 1997)
*''More to Love'' (1999)
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Frozen with Fear'' (2000)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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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Darkroom'' (1981)
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Voyagers!
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Opening narration
Pl ...
'' (1982)
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Murder, She Wrote'' (1984)
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Moonlighting'' (1985)
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The Ray Bradbury Theater
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'' (1985)
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The Twilight Zone
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'' (1985)
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Blacke's Magic
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'' (1986)
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Mike Hammer'' (1987)
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Tour of Duty
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'' (1987)
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Beauty and the Beast
''Beauty and the Beast'' (french: La Belle et la Bête) is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in ''La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins'' (''The Young American and Marine ...
'' (1987)
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Star Trek: The Next Generation'' (episodes: "
The First Duty", "
11001001", "
The Naked Now", "
Unnatural Selection" and "
A Matter of Time")
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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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The Bronx Zoo'' (1988)
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Beverly Hills Buntz'' (1988)
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In the Heat of the Night'' (1989)
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Top Cops
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Each episode of ''Top Cops'' consisted of two to three segments featuring commende ...
'' (1990)
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Dark Shadows
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'' (1991)
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Matrix'' (1993)
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (1993) (episodes: "
A Man Alone", "
Babel", "
Q-Less", "
The Passenger" and "
Battle Lines")
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Kung Fu: The Legend Continues'' (1993)
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Robocop: The Series'' (1994)
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Due South'' (1994)
*''Lonesome Dove: The Series'' (1994)
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Liberty Street'' (1994)
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Xena: Warrior Princess'' (1995)
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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)
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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)
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The Outer Limits'' (1995)
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Viper'' (1995)
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F/X: The Series'' (1996)
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Poltergeist: The Legacy'' (1996)
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The Magician's House'' (1999)
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Sliders'' (1998-1999)
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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
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1946 births
Living people
Canadian film directors
Canadian television directors
English-language film directors
English emigrants to Canada
Film people from Liverpool