Chris Columbus

American filmmaker (born 1958)

Born: 10 September 1958, Spangler (age 68)
Country: United States
Known as: screenwriter, writer, executive producer, film director, film producer, director
Directed / created: 3 on Hadath
Average Hadath score: 7.5 across 3 titles

Biography

Christopher Joseph Columbus is an American filmmaker. Born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, Columbus studied film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. After writing screenplays for several teen comedies in the mid-1980s, including Gremlins, The Goonies, and Young Sherlock Holmes, he made his directorial debut with a teen adventure, Adventures in Babysitting (1987). Columbus gained recognition soon after with the highly successful Christmas comedy Home Alone (1990) and its sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).

Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).