Christopher Dedrick Biography (1947-)

Born September 12, 1947; son of Art Dedrick (a trumpet player, music arranger, and band leader); mother, a music teacher and musician.

Gender: Male
Occupation: Composer, orchestrator, conductor, sound editor, musician, singer, recording artist

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Work
Orchestrator
Firstborn (also known as First Born and Moving In),Paramount, 1984
Brighton Beach Memoirs (also known as Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs), Universal, 1986
Jaws: The Revenge (also known as Jaws 4), Universal, 1987
1969, Atlantic Entertainment Group, 1988
See You in the Morning, Warner Bros., 1989
Mountains of the Moon, TriStar, 1990
Mobsters (also known as The Evil Empire), Universal, 1991
Consenting Adults, Buena Vista, 1992
Matusalem, National Film Board of Canada, 1993
La Florida, Vivafilm, 1993
Wagons East, TriStar, 1994
Dream Lover, Gramercy, 1994
Destiny in Space (short documentary), IMAX Corp., 1994
Robin of Locksley, Hallmark Home Entertainment, 1996
The Planet of Junior Brown (also known as Junior's Groove),A-pix Entertainment/Evergreen Entertainment, 1994
Other
Vocal music performer, Ontario Pavilion Expo 86, 1986
Conductor, The Planet of Junior Brown (also known as Junior's Groove), A-pix Entertainment/Evergreen Entertainment, 1994
Conductor, The Ice Storm, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1997
Television Orchestrator
Series
The Ray Bradbury Theatre (also known as The Bradbury Trilogy, Mystery Theatre, and Ray Bradbury presente), HBO, 1985-1987,then USA Network, 1987-1993
Road to Avonlea (also known as Avonlea), The Disney Channel, 1995-1996
Emily of New Moon, CBC (Canada), 1997-2000
The City, CTV, 1999
Orchestrator for Dracula: The Series, syndicated; and Rupert, YTV (Canada).
Miniseries
Queen (also known as Alex Haley's Queen), CBS, 1993
Streets of Laredo (also known as Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo), CBS, 1995
The Arrow, CBC (Canada), 1997
"Women Adventurers," Lady Spy, The Discovery Channel, c. 2000
Movies
Nobody's Child, CBS, 1986
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story, CBS, 1996
Lyddie, CBC (Canada), 1996
Episodic
"Plato's Atlantis," Fabulous Discoveries of the Twentieth Century,The Discovery Channel, 1995
"Secrets of the Gobi," Fabulous Discoveries of the Twentieth Century, The Discovery Channel, 1995
"Submarine Disasters," Nuclear Sharks, 1998
"Canal," Lady Spy, 2000
Also orchestrator for "Jeanne Maranda," an episode of Our Stories,CBC (Canada); "Fatal Collision: The Andrea Doria," "Floating Inferno: The Yarmouth Castle," "The Lusitania," "Shipwreck on the Skeleton Coast," "Squalus," "The Titanic," and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," all episodes of Shipwreck!; and for episodes of Ivanhoe and Kung Fu--The Legend Continues.
Other
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad, The Family Channel, 1994
Under the Piano, 1995
Aliens: Are We Alone?, 1998

Great Adventures of the 20th Century (special), 1999
Television Work
Other; Movies
Conductor, Dieppe, CBC (Canada), 1993
Music editor, Love and Murder (also known as Criminal Instincts: Love and Murder), CTV, 2000
Music editor, Deadly Appearances (also known as Criminal Instincts: Deadly Appearances), Lifetime, 2000
RECORDINGS
Albums; with Free Design
Kites Are Fun, Project 3 Records, 1967
You Could Be Born Again, Project 3 Records, 1968
Heaven/Earth, Project 3 Records, 1969
Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love, Project 3 Records, 1970
The Free Design Sing for Very Important People, Project 3 Records,1970
One by One, Project 3 Records, 1971
There Is a Song, Ambrotype, 1972
Kites Are Fun: The Best of the Free Design, Varese, 1998
The Free Design--Cosmic Peekaboo, Lamplighter Music, 2001
Other albums with Free Design include Best of the Free Design. Singles from Project 3 Records include "Kits Are Fun/The Proper Ornaments," 1967; "You Be You and I'll Be Me/Never Tell the World," 1968; "Umbrellas/I FoundLove," 1968; "Make the Madness Stop/Eleanor Rigby," 1968; "Close Your Mouth (It's Christmas)/Christmas Is the Day," 1968; "You Could Be Born Again/A LeafHas Veins," 1969; "Ellen Dedrick: Nature Boy/Settlement Boy," 1969; "Where DoI Go/Girls Alone," 1969; "Dorian Benediction/Summertime," 1969; "2002 a HitSong/Hurry Sundown," 1969; "Butterflies Are Free/My Very Own Angel," 1970; "Don't Cry Baby/Time and Love," 1970; and "A Friendly Man/Stay Off Your Frown,"c. 1971.
Other Albums
Recorded the solo album Be Free.
WRITINGS
Film Scores
Pigeons (also known as The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1971
The Happiness Cage (also known as The Demon Within and The Mind Snatchers), Cinerama Releasing, 1972
Ontario Pavilion Expo 86, 1986
Sally Marshall Is Not an Alien, United International Pictures, 1998
The Witness Files, Avalanche Home Entertainment, 1999
The Planet of Junior Brown (also known as Junior's Groove),A-pix Entertainment/Evergreen Entertainment, 1994
Also composer for the films Close Relations, Dirty Mouth (also known as The Lenny Bruce Story), Full Circle, One Heart, and West on Queen Street, Canadian Film Academy.
Television Music
Series
The Ray Bradbury Theatre (also known as The Bradbury Trilogy, Mystery Theatre, and Ray Bradbury presente), HBO, 1985-1987,then USA Network, 1987-1993
Road to Avonlea (also known as Avonlea), The Disney Channel, 1995-1996
Emily of New Moon, CBC (Canada), 1997-2000
The City, CTV, 1999
Also composer for Dracula: The Series, syndicated.
Miniseries
(As Chris Dedrick) Glory! Glory!, HBO, 1989
Million Dollar Babies, CBS, 1994
The Arrow, CBC (Canada), 1997
"Women Adventurers," Lady Spy, The Discovery Channel, c. 2000
Counterforce, 2000
Movies
The Courage to Love, Lifetime, 2000
Love and Murder (also known as Criminal Instincts: Love and Murder), CTV, 2000
Deadly Appearances (also known as Criminal Instincts: Deadly Appearances), Lifetime, 2000
Walter and Henry, Showtime, 2001
Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story, CTV, 2001
Specials
Great Adventures of the 20th Century, 1999
Jackie Kennedy: The Power of Style, 1999
History Happened Here, 2000
Episodic
"Plato's Atlantis," Fabulous Discoveries of the Twentieth Century,The Discovery Channel, 1995
"Secrets of the Gobi," Fabulous Discoveries of the Twentieth Century, The Discovery Channel, 1995
"Submarine Disasters," Nuclear Sharks, 1998
"Canal," Lady Spy, 2000
Composer of music for "Jeanne Maranda," an episode of Our Stories,CBC (Canada); "Fatal Collision: The Andrea Doria," "Floating Inferno: The Yarmouth Castle," "The Lusitania," "Shipwreck on the Skeleton Coast," "Squalus," "The Titanic," and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," all episodes of Shipwreck!; and for episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Ivanhoe, Kung Fu--The Legend Continues, and The Twilight Zone.
Other Television Music
Taking Care of Terrific, 1987
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad, The Family Channel, 1994
Under the Piano, 1995
Aliens: Are We Alone?, 1998
This Matter of Marriage (also known as Harlequin's This Matterof Marriage), The Movie Channel, 1998
Other Music
Mother and Child (suite for brass quintet and choir), 1994
Awakenings (double concerto), 1994
Fantasies for Anna, 1995
Entre nous, 1995
Tender Loving Care (video game), Aftermath Media, 1998
Composer (with Kenneth G. Mills) of The Fire Mass (for a capella voices).

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

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Chris Dedrick, http://www.chrisdedrick.com, February 27, 2002

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