Allan Moyle

Allan Moyle (born 1947 in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada) is a film director.

His first major film was "Times Square" (1980). During the editing of the film he clashed with producer Robert Stigwood who reportedly wanted dialogue scenes removed and replaced with more musical sequences, so that the accompanying soundtrack recording could be expanded to a double-album. Moyle refused to make the cuts so Stigwood fired him and made the cuts himself.

In the eighties he wrote a novel that was never published but became the basis for his screenplay of his movie "Pump Up the Volume".

Moyle has since directed "Pump Up the Volume" (1990), "The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag" (1992), "Empire Records" (1995), "New Waterford Girl" (1999) - for which he won the Best Direction Canadian Comedy Award in 2001, "XChange", and the made-for-TV movies "Jailbait" (2000) and "" (2004). His most recent film, "Weirdsville", debuted at and headlined the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival in January. The film's stars include Taryn Manning.

He is divorced from actress Dianna Miranda and currently married to Chiyoko Tanaka. [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0610496/bio Allan Moyle - Biography ] ] He attended McGill University in Montreal and apprenticed at the New London Barn Theatre in New Hampshire.

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