Christopher "Chris" Columbus (born September 10, 1958) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Columbus had most success with
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film), and the Home Alone film (1990), winning a British Comedy Award for Best Comedy Film.

Life and career

Columbus was born in Spangler, Pennsylvania and raised in Youngstown, Ohio, the son of Irene, a factory worker, and Alex Columbus, an aluminum plant worker and coal miner.www.guardian.co.uk/film/2001/oct/28/comment.featureswww.filmreference.com/film/13/Chris-Columbus.html Columbus is of Italian and Czech descent. He married Monica Devereux in 1983, with whom he had four children: Eleanor, Violet, Brendan, and Isabella.