Christopher Duddy

Over a span of the last 4 decades, Christopher Duddy has lent his diverse filmmaking skills to several of the biggest and most successfull movies in history and has become a sought after Producer, Director and Cinematographer. After studying photography in college, Christopher started his career at ILM, Industrial Light and Magic, George Lucas' visual effects studio. 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 (which he was on the Academy Award winning teams for visual effects on all three movies. ) Christopher continued working with James Cameron on his next three features; True Lies, T-2 3D, and the 2nd most successful movie of all time, Titanic, in which Mr. Cameron enlisted Christopher to shoot the climax of the ship sinking (again, Christopher was on that Academy Award winning team for visual effects) Starting the new millennium, Christopher was one of the three credited 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 D. C. back to 1962.

Has 2 sons from his first marriage: Cameron born 1984 and Collin born 1986.

In 2001, Christopher made his directing debut with the award winning short film entitled Leaving Peoria, which won the coveted Best Comedy Short Award at the 2001 Houston WorldFest Film Festival and his lead actor won the Best Actor Award at the 2002 Sun Valley Film Festival. This hilarious and heartfelt film was also written and produced by Duddy. 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.

Caligary which he won best cinematography at Stan Winston's ScreamFest in 2005 and All Soul's 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 has produced 7 films, one being his feature film directorial debut on the successful R rated comedy Cougar Club which is being distributed by Universal/Vivendi.

On February 2, 2006 Joely and Chris Duddy welcomed their 2nd daughter True Harlow Fisher-Duddy at their LA home. True was born at 1:30am and weighed in at 7lbs 12ozs. True joined big sis Skylar Grace,5, and half brothers Cameron Duddy,20, and Collin Duddy,18 Duddy's children from his previous marriage.