Duguay, Christian 1947(?)–

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Duguay, Christian 1947(?)–

PERSONAL

Born c. 1947, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; married Liliana Komorowska (an actress); children: two. Education: Attended Concordia University.

Addresses: AgentWilliam Morris Agency, One William Morris Place, Beverly Hills, CA 90212; The Gersh Agency, 232 North Canon Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210.

Career: Director, cinematographer, and camera operator.

Awards, Honors: Gemini Award, best direction in a dramatic program or miniseries, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, 1996, for Million Dollar Babies; Emmy Award nomination, outstanding directing for a miniseries or a movie, 1999, for Joan of Arc; Emmy Award nomination (with others), outstanding miniseries, 2003, for Hitler: The Rise of Evil.

CREDITS

Film Director:

Scanners II: The New Order, Triton Pictures, 1991.

Scanners III: The Takeover (also known as Scanner Force), Republic Pictures, 1992.

Screamers (also known as Screamers—L'armee souterraine), Triumph Releasing, 1995.

The Assignment (also known as Le mandat), Triumph Releasing, 1997.

The Art of War (also known as L'art de la guerre), Warner Bros., 2000.

Extreme Ops (also known as Extremist), Paramount, 2002.

Film Cinematographer:

Memoirs, 1984.

Braxton, 1989.

The Assignment (also known as Le mandat), Triumph Releasing, 1997.

Film Steadicam Operator:

Crazy Moon, Miramax, 1986.

Keeping Track, 1987.

Enemies: A Love Story, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989.

Scanners II: The New Order, Triton Pictures, 1991.

The Assignment (also known as Le mandat), Triumph Releasing, 1997.

The Art of War (also known as L'art de la guerre), Warner Bros., 2000.

Film Camera Operator:

The Blue Man, Seymour Borde and Associates, 1985.

Screamers (also known as Screamers—L'armee souterraine), Triumph Releasing, 1995.

The Assignment (also known as Le mandat), Triumph Releasing, 1997.

The Art of War (also known as L'art de la guerre), Warner Bros., 2000.

Film Work; Other:

Editor, Satanic Question (animated short film; also known as La satanee question), 1982.

Assistant director of action unit, Shadow of the Wolf (also known as Agaguk), 1992, Triumph Releasing, 1993.

Producer, Funny Monkey (also known as Hairy Tale), Warner Bros., c. 2003.

Television Work; Series:

Second unit action director, Crossbow (also known as Adventures of William Tell, William Tell, and Guillaume Tell), CBN, c. 1987–89.

Television Director; Miniseries:

Million Dollar Babies (also known as Les jumelles Dionne), CBC, 1994.

Dash and Lilly, Arts and Entertainment and Granada Television, 1999.

(And opening title sequence designer) Joan of Arc (also known as Jeanne d'Arc), CBS, 1999.

(And co-executive producer) Hitler: The Rise of Evil (also known as Hitler: La naissance du mal), CBS, 2003.

Human Trafficking, Lifetime, 2006.

Television Director; Movies:

Live Wire, 1992.

Pentamerica Pictures, HBO, 1992.

(And steadicam operator) Adrift, CBS, 1993.

Model by Day, 1994.

(And camera operator) Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story, CBS, 1994.

Lies My Mother Told Me, Lifetime, 2005.

Television Director; Episodic:

"Red Light," The Hunger, Showtime, 1997.

Directed episodes of other series, including Catwalk, YTV and syndicated; The Hidden Room, Lifetime; and The Hitchhiker (also known as Le voyageur), HBO and USA Network.

WRITINGS

Film Music:

Satanic Question (animated short film; also known as La satanee question), 1982.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

Maclean's, October 20, 1997, p. 74.

Starlog, March, 1996.

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