Jonathan Lynn was born on 3 April 1943 and is an English stage and film director, producer, writer, and actor.
16 Facts About Jonathan Lynn
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Jonathan Lynn is known for directing the comedy films such as Clue, Nuns on the Run, My Cousin Vinny, and The Whole Nine Yards.
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Jonathan Lynn co-created and co-wrote the television series Yes Minister.
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Jonathan Lynn was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, between 1954 and 1961, after which he studied law at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
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Jonathan Lynn played the Irish medical student Danny Hooley in the second series of the television comedy Doctor in the House in 1970.
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Jonathan Lynn wrote some episodes for Doctor at Large, Doctor in Charge, Doctor at Sea and Doctor on the Go.
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Jonathan Lynn had a bit-part as a window cleaner in the BBC television series The Good Life.
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Jonathan Lynn's later writing credits include the first two films he directed, Clue and Nuns on the Run.
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Jonathan Lynn is known for his co-writing, co-producing, and co-directing of the revived Yes, Prime Minister series produced by the BBC on Gold in 2013.
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Jonathan Lynn co-authored the books The Complete Yes Minister, as well as The Complete Yes Prime Minister, which spent 106 weeks on the Sunday Times top 10 fiction list.
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In 2011 Jonathan Lynn wrote a non-fiction work entitled Comedy Rules.
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The Independent newspaper called the book "a charming memoir, full of amusing and insightful anecdotes about the many entertainers Jonathan Lynn has worked with" and described it as a combination of autobiography and how-to manual for comedy.
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Jonathan Lynn won praise for his direction of the 2010 London stage version of Yes, Prime Minister, which he co-wrote as well.
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Jonathan Lynn produced six episodes of the new Yes, Prime Minister television series, was executive producer of He's Such a Girl, Vanity Fair, and was a producer for Trial and Error.
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Jonathan Lynn was a recipient of a Diamond Jubilee Award for Political Satire in 2010.
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Jonathan Lynn received a NAACP Image Award for the 2003 film The Fighting Temptations.