He left school to become a cartoonist for the Toronto Star 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.
[2] This was followed by the box-office hit Prom Night, a straightforward slasher film starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielsen.
[3] Lynch has only made movies periodically, pursuing instead a career directing for American television.