Christopher "Chris" Columbus (born September 10, 1958) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Columbus had most success with 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.filmreference.com/film/13/Chris-Columbus.html Columbus is of Italian and Czech descent. His father died in 1995 and his mother died of cancer in 1997. Columbus married Monica Devereux in 1983 with whom he had four children: Eleanor, Violet, Brendan, and Isabella.

Columbus graduated from Tisch School of the Arts and made his directorial debut with the teen comedy Adventures in Babysitting (1987). Columbus also created and wrote the first episodes of the animated series Galaxy High (1986–87).