Personal life

Christian surfed, wrote poetry and started college, where he engulfed himself in cinema studies. He studied with some of the top acting coaches in the industry, received critical acclaim in local plays and got running roles on TV. He wrote and sold screenplays and directed features

Career

Christian has directed four features, including California Casanova, which he also co-wrote (MGM DVD; Cinamax); Club Fed

Club Fed (film)

Club Fed is a 1990 comedy film that satirizes the "Club Fed"-type of minimum security prisons that wealthy white-collar criminals are sent to.-Plot summary:...

(MGM DVD Cinemax, Comedy Central); For Heaven's Sake

For Heaven's Sake (2008 film)

For Heaven's Sake is a comedy written by former Emmy Award winner, Ann Marcus. The film was directed and produced by Nat Christian. It stars Florence Henderson, Allison Lange, David Paetkau, Yaani King, Kathryn Gordon, Stephanie Patton, Joseph Campanella and Skyler Gisondo.The film was released...

(Vanguard Cinema); Channels

Channels (2008 film)

Channels, released in 2008, is love story sometimes described as delving into thoughts of existentialism. The film was written, directed, produced and acted in by Nat Christian. The film stars Kim Oja, Nat Christian, Ed Asner, John Kassir, Joan Van Ark and Taylor Negron. Ann Marcus executive...

, which he also co-wrote (Vanguard Cinema). For Heaven's Sake and Channels were produced by Ann Marcus

Ann Marcus

Ann Marcus ia an American television writer, producer and playwright. She graduated from Western College for Women, worked for the New York Daily News and Life, where she worked with famed photographers such as Alfred Eisenstadt....

. 700 Hill, which he wrote for Monterrey Pictures, is in active development. Christian has had running roles on TV's General Hospital

General Hospital

General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....

, The Young and the Restless

The Young and the Restless

The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...

and Days of our Lives

Days of our Lives

Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...

, and various other roles. He was a recipient of a Los Angeles Drama-Logue Critics Award

Drama-Logue Award

The Drama-Logue Award was a theater award established in 1977, given by the publishers of Drama-Logue newspaper, a weekly west-coast theater trade publication. Winners were selected by the publication's theater critics, and would receive a certificate at an annual awards ceremony...

 for outstanding performance in Naomi Court.

Director

• Channels
  Channels (2008 film)
  Channels, released in 2008, is love story sometimes described as delving into thoughts of existentialism. The film was written, directed, produced and acted in by Nat Christian. The film stars Kim Oja, Nat Christian, Ed Asner, John Kassir, Joan Van Ark and Taylor Negron. Ann Marcus executive...
  
   (2008, Vanguard Cinema)
• For Heaven's Sake
  For Heaven's Sake (2008 film)
  For Heaven's Sake is a comedy written by former Emmy Award winner, Ann Marcus. The film was directed and produced by Nat Christian. It stars Florence Henderson, Allison Lange, David Paetkau, Yaani King, Kathryn Gordon, Stephanie Patton, Joseph Campanella and Skyler Gisondo.The film was released...
  
   (2008, Vanguard Cinema)
• California Casanova (1991, MGM DVD; Cinamax)
• Club Fed
  Club Fed (film)
  Club Fed is a 1990 comedy film that satirizes the "Club Fed"-type of minimum security prisons that wealthy white-collar criminals are sent to.-Plot summary:...
  
   (1990, MGM DVD Cinemax, Comedy Central)

Actor

• Channels
  Channels (2008 film)
  Channels, released in 2008, is love story sometimes described as delving into thoughts of existentialism. The film was written, directed, produced and acted in by Nat Christian. The film stars Kim Oja, Nat Christian, Ed Asner, John Kassir, Joan Van Ark and Taylor Negron. Ann Marcus executive...
  
  
• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  
• Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
  
  
• King Kong Lives
  King Kong Lives
  King Kong Lives is a 1986 American monster movie produced by DEG Studios. Directed by John Guillermin and featuring special effects by Carlo Rambaldi, the film starred Linda Hamilton and Brian Kerwin. The film was a belated sequel to King Kong...
  
  
• The New Mike Hammer
  The New Mike Hammer
  The New Mike Hammer is an American television series based on the exploits of the fictitious New York-based private detective Mike Hammer. The show starred Stacy Keach and was essentially a continuation of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, an earlier television program featuring an identical core cast...
  
  

Writer

• Channels
  Channels (2008 film)
  Channels, released in 2008, is love story sometimes described as delving into thoughts of existentialism. The film was written, directed, produced and acted in by Nat Christian. The film stars Kim Oja, Nat Christian, Ed Asner, John Kassir, Joan Van Ark and Taylor Negron. Ann Marcus executive...
  
  , Screenwriter (Vanguard Cinema)
• The Duke
  The Duke (film)
  The Duke is a 1999 film. Its plot cocerns a dog, Hubert, inheriting an English country mansion.-Plot:When the kind hearted duke of the manor dies, he leaves his estate to his Black and Tan Coonhound, Hubert, with Charlotte the Butler's niece as his guardian...
  
  , Story Consultant (Buena Vista Home Video)
• 1ST DOG, Screenwriter (co) (AppleCreek Communications)
• California Casanova, Screenwriter (MGM Home Video)
• 700 Hill Screenwriter (Monterrey Pictures)

Articles

• WRITTEN BY Writers Guild Of America Magazine (November 2003)

External links

• NEW YOLK TIMES official site
• ROTTEN TOMATOES