Author Bios

Paul Kyriazi

At age 8, I see The Making of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea on Disneyland TV and decided to become a movie director. Age 16, I start filming 20 minute action stories using my father’s 8mm camera and friends as actors. I used his tape recorder to run sound, music, and dialogue (out of sync) when I projected it. Age 18, a professional cameraman, tells my father, “If he’s serious about movies he has to shoot in 16mm.” So my father bought me a used Bolex camera.

I immediately film a 30 min color action movie titled Trapped and it wins the Berkeley Film Festival. I start taking karate to be like James Bond. My Sensei introduces me to samurai movies. Seeing that action with great film techniques of the Japanese directors, moves me into martial arts movies, even before the TV show Kung Fu. I transferred to San Francisco State University making more 20 minute karate stories and placing 3rd in the next Berkeley Film Festival. I graduate with a BA in film.

I join the Air Force movie department and film space launches for NASA. I take leave to film my first feature Draw Swords in 35mm black and white Techniscope. It’s about 3 samurai going to England to enter a fencing tournament. To do the lab and sound work in Hollywood, I use all my cash and credit cards, loans, and refinancing my car.

After 4 years, I get out of the Air Force and return to San Francisco unable to sell my black and white movie. I work at Dow Chemical for 6 months to pay off my movie debts. I promise myself if I get another break I will make a color movie that is so commercial the distributors will have to buy it. I then meet karate tournament fighter Ron Marchini who has me re-edit and sell his Philippine produced movie Manila Gold. It’s changed to Murder in the Orient to capitalize on Murder on the Orient Express. It plays the action theater circuit.

Ron then hired me to write and direct Death Machines and co-produce it in Stockton, CA. To be commercial, we come up with a story of 3 karate killers (white, black, Asian) to cover all markets. Then we add a cop/gangster plot, big fight scenes in a karate dojo, bar, and police station, and we actually blew up a piper cub airplane. The movie is immediately picked up by Crown International Pictures with big advertising, such as quarter page adds in newspapers. It opened in 50 theaters in LA making it a #14 top grosser. I now have something to show. However, I still can’t seem to get the money together to produce my own movie, so I direct a sequence for Sesame Street.

I pick up a copy of The Million Dollar Secret Hidden in Your Mind by Anthony Norvel, about programming the subconscious for success. I take his classes for three months in LA, then return to the San Francisco. In 10 days I raise the money to produce and direct Weapons of Death. The panavision film plays all over the USA breaking a house record in a New York theater. I next produce and direct Ninja Busters, a comedy action movie. This was followed by the cops and gangsters action story One Way Out.

Next came writing and directing Omega Cop starring: Adam ‘Batman’ West, Troy Donahue, and Stuart Whitman. I have two great years of post-production work on 4 features, then move to Japan for acting and voice work. An actress from Weapons of Death hires me to produce a travelogue in Phuket, Thailand, Thailand Adventure proving you never know what contact will end up getting you movie work.

I write my two novels in hopes of getting them produced as movies, opening up another enjoyable creative outlet. And when many people ask me “How do you survive as a freelance?” I write How to Live the James Bond Lifestyle. This way I don’t have to spend hours explaining it, I just give them the audio-book.

In 2005 produce my novel Rock Star Rising as an audio-book narrated by Rod Taylor and performed by Russ Tamblyn, George Chakiris, Robert Culp, James Darren, and Kevin McCarthy. It has full effects and music, making it an “audio movie” of sorts.

In 2006 I direct my novel in what would turn out to be, because of the star cast, the largest production in audio-book history, McKnight’s Memory. Narrated by Frank Sinatra Jr, it stars Robert Culp, Nancy Kwan, Don Stroud, Henry Silva, Alan Young, David Hedison, and Edd Kookie Byrnes. It’s a mystery/thriller about a CIA agent Culp who loses his memory and is pursued by both the CIA and the Mafia. His lover (Nancy Kwan) might be part of the conspiracy.

In 2007 I Direct Edd Byrnes’ My Casino Caper audio-book. It’s Edd’s memoir of being stalked for his 3 million dollar Vegas win. He tells it to Alan Young, with Henry Silva and David Hedison playing themselves, recreating the incident that happened in 1977. Michael Callen plays the part of criminal that stalked Edd.

In 2008 I direct Barbara Leigh’s The King, McQueen, and the Love Machine audio-book. Her memoir of being a top model involved with Elvis, Steve McQueen and MGM president Jim Aubrey. Joe Esposito introduces it and plays himself in the dramatizations.

I’m now working with Frank Sinatra Jr on my audio-novel I Justice. Frank plays a private security man that loses a TV star client in a filming accident that might be a conspiracy. Frank will direct the project and compose original music for it.

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