John Flynn

John Flynn (14 mars 1932 – Avril 4, 2007), ce qui à l'American film director and scénariste known for making efficient, no-nonsense crime thriller The Outfit and Rolling Thunder. Flynn, ce qui relance à Hermosa Beach, California and served in the Coast Guard, It was during this éperlan that he etude journalism with Roots author Alex Haley. Flynn received a degree in journalism from UCLA. He began his cinematic career as an apprentice to director de Robert Wise on Odds Against Tomorrow and worked as the script supervisor on West Side Story. From there, Flynn worked as a second unit director on Kid Galahad and The Great Escape. He made his debut as a director with The Sergent mettant en vedette la musique de Rod Steiger. Flynn's substantial commercial success ce que with The Tenue mettant en vedette Robert Duvall. The filmmaker achieved a dedicated cult following with the graveleux revenge thriller, Rolling Thunder mettant en vedette William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones. En 1994, he directed the cult classic Brainscan, a thriller about the dangers of virtual reality mettant en vedette Edward Furlong and Frank Langella. Flynn continued to work on genre film like Best-Seller, the Sylvester Stallone prison drame Lock Up, and the Steven Seagal action film, Out for Justice. In the early 1990s, Flynn directed two made-for-cable-TV film, the Dennis Hopper cop film, Nails, and the drame Escroquerie. His last film ce the direct-to-vidéo film Protection.