Lyle Howry

Biography (Lyle Howry) Lyle Howry comes from the "school of hard knocks". Born in Hollywood, California, he spent most of his younger years in five foster homes. When Lyle turned 11 he was sent off to meet his mother in New ... more

Biography (Lyle Howry)

Lyle Howry comes from the "school of hard knocks". Born in Hollywood, California, he spent most of his younger years in five foster homes. When Lyle turned 11 he was sent off to meet his mother in New Hampshire. At 14 he moved out on his own, working odd jobs and finding his way back to California at the age of 17 to find the father he never knew. With help from a family member he located his father and spent a couple of years with him before moving on. The word easy is not in his vocabulary, any thing good has always come from hard work, he state's life is a great lesson, forget about hate, just make due with what you have and move froward, after all no one promised us life was going to be perfect. Lyle's entertainment career began in 1985 as an actor on the award-winning television series "Moonlighting" (1985). During his acting years, a side business led to the discovery that he had a passion for finance and a gift for packaging. This newdirection took him to London, Hong Kong, Taiwan and numerous other country's to close international finance and motion
picture investment deals. Lyle used his experience and contacts to help co/executive-produce The Dukes of Hazzard In 1985 Reggie's Prayer (1996), distributed by Arrow Releasing Inc., in which football legend Reggie White made his acting debut. The following year, he assisted in putting together the P/A funds for the award-nominated feature film Warriors of Virtue (1997), distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
Lyle has been associated with the entertainment industry for more than 25 years, including ten years in corporate finance, as well as specializing in studio negotiations. In 1997 he teamed up with legendary Former Paramount Pictures studio head Frank Yablans and helped secure funding dollars for the feature film A Dog of Flanders, Staring Jon Voight Cheryl Ladd and many other top actors and actresses. In 1999 Lyle met with renowned Martial Arts promoter Stan Witz and created a ground breaking rights deal. Through his foresight, Lyle tied up a lucrative ten-year contract to exclusively cover the USA World Martial Arts Championships, the premier annual martial arts event. In 2000 he formed Lyle Howry Productions. Since Lyle has collaborated with numerous production companies and has produced feature films, directed live television, red carpet events, sporting events, and has negotiated major cable deals that
have brought in combined audience to shows in the million's of households and viewers. Lyle has major Video, Television, film and music distribution cantacts that place his productions and other products in stores, television and theaters.

Lyle parleyed this deal into multiple contracts with cable channels and has built up his firm's stock footage library. In 2000 Lyle moved into music videos and produced Won-G's "We Got What You Want", featuring Carmen Electra. The next year Lyle produced and directed the music video Cyrano (2001), and that same year he produced the independent thriller Séance (2001), starring Adam West and Corey Feldman. he has also produced videos for Michael J. Young, hip hop artist X-Lyle and country-western artist Steve Zuwala.

In 2012 Lyle Howry is a new owner of BossTV a new on line film and television channel that is launching world wide, Lyle has just completed the motion picture Wedding Day and is now in pre -Production and Post-Production on Several film and television productions for 2012 and 2013.