About Christopher
Over a span of the last four decades, Christopher Duddy has worked on several of the biggest and most successful movies in history and has become a sought after cinematographer. After studying photography in college, Christopher started his career in 1985 at Industrial Light and Magic, better known as ILM. He amassed an impressive body of experience early in his career filming visual effects and action sequences on blockbuster movies such as THE ABYSS, TOTAL RECALL and TERMINATOR 2 .
Christopher continued working with James Cameron on his next three features TRUE LIES, T-2 3D, and the second most successful movie of all time TITANIC, in which Mr. Cameron enlisted Christopher to shoot the visual effects miniature for the climax of the ship sinking.
Starting off the 2000’s, Christopher was one of three cinematographers, including Roger Deakins and Andrej Bartkowiak, that shot the acclaimed Kevin Costner feature film THIRTEEN DAYS for New Line, where he and director Roger Donaldson re-created the Cuban missile site in the Philippines, while also bringing Washington DC back to 1962.
Christopher has been the Director of Photography on several independent features that have premiered on HBO, Showtime and the Fox Family Channel. In 2004 he shot two horror movies, a remake of THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI which he won best cinematography at Stan Winston’s Screamfeast and ALL SOULS DAY which premiered to rave reviews at the 2005 Slamdance Film Festival. In 2005 to 2010 Christopher formed Open Sky Entertainment to develop and produce feature films which produced 7 films, one being his feature film directorial debut on the successful R rated comedy COUGAR CLUB which is being distributed by Universal Studios. He also served as the Director of Photography on a terrifying horror film his company produced called THE WIZARD OF GORE starring Crispin Glover.
Then Christopher began his career in television as the Director of Photography on the CBS hit show MACGYVER.
and 6 episodes on the first season of the hit new show QUANTUM LEAP on NBC also shooting one episode of another hit CBS show CSI VEGAS.
Currently Christopher is the Director of Photography on the hit NBC show MAGNUM PI in Hawaii and is in post production on the highly anticipated remake of the classic horror film NOSFERATU A Symphony of Horror which is slated to be released in early 2024.
Christopher is represented by Karen Berch at the MURTHA SKOURAS AGENCY (310) 395-4600