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John Flynn is a Director, Writer and Assistant Director American born on 14 march 1932 at Chicago (USA)

John Flynn

John Flynn
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Nationality USA
Birth 14 march 1932 at Chicago (USA)
Death 4 april 2007 (at 75 years) at Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles (USA)

John Flynn (March 14, 1932 – April 4, 2007) was an American film director and screenwriter known for making efficient, no-nonsense crime-thrillers The Outfit and Rolling Thunder.

Biography

Flynn was raised in Hermosa Beach, California and served in the Coast Guard, It was during this stint that he studied journalism with Roots author Alex Haley. Flynn received a degree in journalism from UCLA.

He began his cinematic career as an apprentice to director 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 Sergeant starring Rod Steiger.

Flynn's substantial commercial success was with The Outfit starring Robert Duvall. The filmmaker achieved a dedicated cult following with the gritty revenge thriller, Rolling Thunder starring William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones. In a 1994 interview with Jon Stewart, Film maker Quentin Tarantino cited Rolling Thunder as an influence and Flynn among his favorite directors.

In 1994, he directed the cult classic Brainscan, a thriller about the dangers of virtual reality starring Edward Furlong and Frank Langella.

Flynn continued to work on genre films like Best Seller, the Sylvester Stallone prison drama Lock Up, and the Steven Seagal action film, Out for Justice. In the early 1990s, Flynn directed two made-for-cable-TV films, the Dennis Hopper cop film, Nails, and the crime drama Scam. His last film was the direct-to-video film Protection.

Best films

Lock Up (1989)
(Director)
The Great Escape (1963)
(Director)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of John Flynn (21 films)

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YearNameJobRoles
2001ProtectionDirector
1999Absence of the GoodDirector
1994BrainscanDirector
1993ScamDirector
1992NailsDirector
1991Out for JusticeDirector
1989Lock UpDirector
1987Best SellerDirector
1983TouchedDirector
1980DefianceDirector
1980Marilyn: The Untold StoryDirector
1977Rolling ThunderDirector
1975The OutfitDirector, Writer
1972The Jerusalem FileDirector
1968The SergeantDirector
1965John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!Director, Assistant Director
1964What a Way to Go!Director
1963The Great EscapeDirector
1963Kings of the SunDirector
1962Two for the SeesawDirector
1962Kid GalahadDirector