- Chris has worked on feature films, television, music videos, documentaries and web based content. His parents met on the set of "Singing in the Rain" and he grew up in a "show biz" family. After finishing film school at California State University, Northridge he began his television career by working on the first season of revolutionary editorial styled "Miami Vice". Moving into feature films, he landed an editorial job that led to a long-term friendship with Academy Award winning editor Anne V. Coates known for classics like "Lawrence of Arabia", "The Elephant Man" and "Erin Brockovich". While working with her as his mentor on, "Masters of the Universe" and editing "Congo", he coordinated over 2500 complex visual effects -many in 70MM as visual effects coordinator with ILM. Chris edited many feature films for Anne's son, Anthony Hickox from "Waxworks" to "Hellraiser: Hell on Earth". He also produced behind the scene documentaries for several of the films he edited, working with Mariah Carey, Mira Sorvino, Joe Mantegna and Andy Garcia. He has worked with such filmmaking luminaries as Francis Ford Coppola, Jerry Bruckheimer, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, David Anspaugh, Richard Donner, Michael Mann, Danny DeVito and Dino DeLaurentiis. This in depth work experience has taken him on many film location shoots as well as securing him residency at major studio lots such as Universal, Warner Bros., Paramount, Sony, MGM and Disney. He has lectured on and taught film editing at both UCLA and the Los Angeles Film School. Also he is on the Board of Directors for the Shae Foundation, a Nashville based company dedicated to inspiring new artists and talent. He is a Company Director of London based God's Lions Productions Ltd (a Kuys Entertainment Company), which is producing a major motion picture based on the best selling book by John Lyman, "God's Lions: The Secret Chapel". Chris is the owner of Lightstruck Entertainment Inc. a California corporation dedicated to servicing the post production community and the art of film finishing. Currently in 2014 he is editor on the CBS world wide hit series from Bruno Heller for Warner Bros. Television "The Mentalist" and has co-written the screenplay "God's Lions: The Secret Chapel" now in development. Chris is an active member in the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences and represented by the Worldwide Production Agency where he can be contacted.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Kuys Entertainment
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content