Richard Lynch

20th November 2010

Richard Lynch Veteran Hollywood actor Plays the character Damien Lupescu In Gun Of The Black Sun

Richard Lynch plays the Romanian-born amoral media guru Damien Lupescu Gun Of The Black Sun, the new DVD thriller released on 1 August 2011.

Lupescu is obsessed with the Third Reich's legacy, neo-Nazism and the supposed evil force within a Luger gun that he hopes will give him powers to resurrect an Aryan race to world domination.

Richard Lynch's Hollywood roll-call
If you feel American-born Lynch has one of those faces you've seen several times before, it is because you have. He has had major roles in several Hollywood films and TV series.

Think of vintage TV classics Battleship Galactica, Starsky and Hutch, TJ Hooker, The A-Team, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, among several others.

On films, he's worked with Al Pacino and Gene Hackman (1973 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner Scarecrow); the late Lynn Redgrave (The Happy Hooker); Sydney Poitier and River Phoenix (Little Nikita), and with Malcolm McDowell in the 2007 remake of slasher film Halloween.

"The irony was that, after making so many movies, he was worried he might let us down," says Gary Douglas, co-producer and financier of Gun Of The Black Sun. "Instead, he delivered. He put everything he had into that movie. I felt blessed to have worked with him."

Richard Lynch's other achievements
Lynch, whose background includes serving in the US Marine Corps from 1958 to 1961 and a long-established theatre career on and off Broadway, trained with the legendary Lee Strasberg (whose students included Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Paul Newman, Al Pacino and Robert de Niro).

The multi-lingual Lynch is also a talented musician who plays the saxophone, piano, guitar and flute.

Gun Of The Black Sun is released exclusively on DVD on 1 August 2011.

Gun Of The Black Sun is a Max Productions/Stray Dog Films production.