Jonathan Lynn
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Jonathan Lynn (born 3 April 1943) is an English stage and film director, producer, writer and actor.
He directed comedy films such as Clue, My Cousin Vinny, and The Fighting Temptations and earlier co-created and co-wrote the TV series Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.
Early life
Lynn was born in Bath, Somerset, the son of physician Robin Lynn and sculptor Ruth Helen (née Eban), whose first cousin on her mother's side was the neurologist Oliver Sacks. Another cousin, Caroline Sacks, married Nicholas Samuel, 5th Viscount Bearsted. Lynn was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, between 1954 and 1961, after which he studied law at Pembroke College, Cambridge. (His maternal uncle, Israeli statesman Abba Eban, had also studied at Cambridge in the 1930s.) There he participated in the Cambridge University Footlights Club revue Cambridge Circus (appearing with the revue in 1964 on Broadway and on The Ed Sullivan Show).
Career
Lynn's first West End appearance was in a Green Julia stage production for which he was nominated for the 1965 Plays and Players Award as the Most Promising New Actor. In 1967, he appeared as Motel the tailor in the original West End production Fiddler on the Roof (production was retained by CBS Records). Lynn began appearing on and writing television sitcoms, including the television comedy series Twice a Fortnight starring Bill Oddie, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Tony Buffery.
In the second series of the television comedy Doctor in the House of Commons, Lynn played Danny Hooley, an Irish medical student. Doctor at Large, Doctor in Charge, Doctor at Sea, and Doctor on the Go. Beryl's boyfriend Robert in an early version of Beryl's Birds, John Moore's appearance in Jack Rosenthal's 1976 television film Bar Mitzvah Boy, and Ted Margolis in Rosenthal's The Knowledge (1979). In the BBC television series The Good Life, he appeared as a window cleaner for a brief period of time. His film appearances have included scenes in Prudence and the Pill (1968), The House That Dripped Blood (1971), Romance (1974), and Three Men and a Little Lady (1990).
Lynn is a guest instructor at HB Studio.
Lynn's first (co-written) screenplay for The Internecine Project, which was released in 1974. He wrote scripts for the Doctor television series and On the Buses, as well as wrote for Harry Worth and George Layton before eventually, in collaboration with Antony Jay, writing Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. Clue (1985) and Nuns on the Run (1990), among his later writing credits, include the first two films he directed, Clue (1985) and Nuns on the Run (1990). He is also known for his co-writing, co-producing, and co-directing of the revived Yes, Prime Minister series, which was also produced by the BBC on Gold in 2013.
Lynn co-authored The Complete Yes Minister, as well as The Complete Yes Prime Minister, which spent 106 weeks on the Sunday Times top ten fiction list. Both were ranked first on the Sunday Times list, including in December 1986, when the books were ranked number one and number two respectively, in December 1986. He also wrote the 1993 book Mayday. Comedian Rules, Lynn's non-fiction book, was published in 2011. The book was described as "a charming memoir, full of amusing and insightful anecdotes about Lynn's many entertainers" and referred to as a blend of autobiography and how-to-manufacture. "By focusing on particular genres of literature, Lynn cleverly avoids the dangers of both genres." There are no reminiscences of childhood as it is ostensibly a how-to-book. His no-nonsense dos and don'ts are springboards for entertaining yarns rather than academic discourse because it's also a kind of autobiography.
Lynn received raves for his direction in the 2010 London stage version of Yes, Prime Minister, which he co-wrote as well.
Lynn also produced six episodes of the new Yes, Prime Minister television series. Vanity Fair founder He's Such a Girl, and former Prime Minister David Cameron was a producer for Trial and Error. In 1992, Columbia Pictures Television announced an exclusive production deal.