John Flynn

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia John Flynn March 14 1932 April 4 2007 was an American film director and screenwriter known for making efficient nononsense crimethrillers The Outfit and Rolling Thunder 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 Flynns 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 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 madeforcableTV films the Dennis Hopper cop film Nails and the crime drama Scam His last film was the directtovideo film Protection Description above from the Wikipedia article John Flynn director licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia