Paul Lewis(I)
- Production Manager
- Producer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Producer and production manager Paul Lewis hails from Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. His father was a labor union organizer and his mother was
a housewife. Following graduation from Rutgers University in Camden,
New Jersey, Paul went to New York and became a member of Actors'
Equity. He acted in some summer stock and Off-Broadway theatre before
switching to being a stage manager. Lewis ran the Actor's Playhouse in
New York City for a while. Lewis then moved to California in order to
break into the motion picture business and continued to work as a stage
manager prior to snagging his first film gig as the associate producer
of the low-budget drama "Walk the Angry Beach" in 1960. Paul frequently
collaborated with Dennis Hopper on a handful of features that include
"Easy Rider," "The Last Movie," "Out of the Blue," "Colors," and "The
Hot Spot." Among the other directors Lewis worked with are Richard
Rush, Peter Bogdanovich, Monte Hellman, Jack Starrett, and Tom
Laughlin. Paul retired from the film industry in the mid 90s.
