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- Birth nameChristopher Michael Canfield
- Chris Canfield was born in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA. Chris is a director, known for In the Soup (2007), Handsome (2013) and Left Overs (2009).
- Attended Michael Jordan's basketball camp when he was twelve.
- Grandfather Herbert Canfield was one of the pioneering inventors of spring-coil reverb while working at Hammond Organ.
- Great-grandfather Don Russell was a noted historian of the West who penned the seminal biography, "The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill.".
- Attended UCLA where he studied Film and Physics.
- Performer at the world-famous Magic Castle in Hollywood, California.
- I was amazed to discover that none of the directors we studied in the stylistic studies film class at UCLA had ever attended film school. These were some of the most inventive and creative geniuses of the last one hundred years. Turns out they were all scientists before heading behind the camera. That is not to say film school is without value. It is very enlightening.
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