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OverviewAI-generated
Chris Columbus is a male American director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. Born in 1958, he works in the English language. His professional career began in 2023. Columbus has four children.
He is associated with five works. MusicBrainz classifies him as a group. His profile on Last.fm lists 4,767 listeners and 19,275 plays.
Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, VIAF, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4,767
- Total plays
- 19,275
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Chris+Columbus">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,579x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,517x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,717x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,367x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,011x
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Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- b. 1958
- Nationality
- US, USA
- Role / Field
- Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Actor, Screenwriters
- Language
- eng
- Gender
- Male
Recorded by 27 libraries
via VIAF · OCLC
~24 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Christopher Joseph Columbus (born September 10, 1958) 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).
The comedy Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), starring Robin Williams, was another box office success for Columbus. He went on to direct several other films throughout the 1990s, which were mostly met with lukewarm reception. However, he found commercial success again for directing the film adaptations of J. K. Rowling's novels, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and its sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). Columbus was a producer of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) and the drama The Help (2011), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. He also directed the fantasy Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) and the 3D action comedy Pixels (2015). Columbus will next direct, co-write and produce the long-awaited Gremlins 3 which is scheduled for release on November 19, 2027.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chris Columbus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.