Chris Columbus(I)
- Producer
- Writer
- Director
Born in Pennsylvania and raised in Ohio, Chris Columbus was first inspired to
make movies after seeing "The Godfather" at age 15. After enrolling at
NYU film school, he sold his first screenplay (never produced) while a
sophomore there. After graduation Columbus tried to sell his fourth
script, "Gremlins", with no success, until Steven Spielberg optioned it;
Columbus moved to Los Angeles for a year during rewrites on the project
in Spielberg's bungalow at Universal. After writing two more scripts
for Spielberg, "The Goonies" and "Young Sherlock Holmes", Columbus' own
directing career was launched a few years later with "Adventures in
Babysitting". He is best known to audiences as the director of the
runaway hit "Home Alone", written and produced by John Hughes its sequel
"Home Alone 2", and most recently "Mrs. Doubtfire".
