Paul Kyriazi

Hello. Thanks for dropping by. Here's what I've been up to:

Graduate of San Francisco State University Film Department.

Director of six feature films including Omega Cop starring Adam 'Batman' West, Stuart Whitman, & Troy Donahue.

Author of How to Live the James Bond Lifestyle taught at The Learning Annex and SpyFest. Now on 8 CDs introduced by David Hedison from Live and Let Die & License to Kill.

Produced my novels as AudioBooks, performed by Frank Sinatra Jr, Rod Taylor, Robert Culp, Nancy Kwan, Russ Tamblyn, George Chakiris, David Hedison, James Darren, Gary Lockwood, Henry Silva, Alan Young, Kevin McCarthy, & Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes.

Life Behind the Camera

At age 8, I see The Making of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea on Disneyland TV and decide to become a movie director. Age 16, I start filming 20 minute action stories using my father's 8mm camera and friends as actors.

Age 18, I film a 30 min color action movie titled Trapped that wins the Berkeley Film Festival.

I transferred to SF State University, making karate action dramas, placing 3rd in the next Berkeley Film Festival. I graduate with a BA in film.

I join the Air Force movie department for four years 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 tou ament.

I get out of the Air Force and meet karate tou ament fighter Ron Marchini. Ron hires me to write and direct the action movie Death Machines in Techniscope.

The movie is immediately picked up by Crown International Pictures. It opens in 50 theaters in LA making it a #14 top grosser.

I direct a sequence for Sesame Street. I pick up a copy of The Million Dollar Secret Hidden in Your Mind, by Anthony Norvell, about programming the subconscious for success. I take his classes for three months in LA, then return to San Francisco.

In 10 days I raise the money to produce and direct Weapons of Death.

The panavision film plays internationally, breaking a house record in a New York theater. I next produce and direct the comedy kung fu movie Ninja Busters. This was followed by the police drama One Way Out.

Then came writing and directing Omega Cop starring: Adam West, Troy Donahue, and Stuart Whitman.

When many people ask me "How do you survive as a freelance?" I write How to Live the James Bond Lifestyle.

In '06 I produce my novel Rock Star Rising as an audio-book performed by Rod Taylor, Robert Culp, Russ Tamblyn, George Chakiris, James Darren, and Kevin McCarthy.

In '07 I direct my novel McKnight's Memory in audio-book form starring Robert Culp, Nancy Kwan, Don Stroud, Henry Silva, Alan Young, David Hedison, and Edd "Kookie" Byrnes. Narrated by Frank Sinatra Jr. It's a mystery/thriller.

'07 I Direct Edd Kookie Byrnes' My Casino Caper audio-book. It's Edd's memoir of being stalked for his 3 million dollar Vegas win.

'08 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.

Now working with Frank Sinatra Jr. on my audio-novel I Justice.