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 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".
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