Don Michael Paul

Don Michael Paul is a screenwriter, director and actor who grew up in Laguna Beach, California and earned a theater arts degree at California State University, Fullerton. He performed on stage and in more than fifty commercials before selling his first script, Harley Davidson & The Marlboro Man, which was cast with Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson. Alan Ladd, Jr. then contracted him for four pictures at MGM, where he wrote Public Enemies and an adaptation of Davis Grubb's novel Night of the Hunter. Later he adapted John Gilstrap's Nathan's Run for Joel Silver at Warner Bros. and wrote pilots for ABC, CBS, FOX and UPN. He made his directing debut with Half Past Dead, which spawned a sequel, then The Garden, shown at the Brussels International Film Festival, the comedy Who's Your Caddy?, Lake Placid: The Final Chapter and Company of Heroes.