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AKA: Christopher Columbus
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 09/10/1958
Birthplace: Spangler, Pennsylvania, USA
biography
One of the more successful filmmakers to "graduate" from the Spielberg School of Genre Moviemaking, Chris Columbus emerged as a specialist in combining a sensitivity for feelings of young people with a rousing adventure yarn. The only child of a coal miner father, Columbus sold his first script while still in college and went on to pen three highly imaginative and commercially popular films ("Gremlins" 1984; "The Goonies" 1985; "Young Sherlock Holmes" 1985) for producer Steven Spielberg before making a competent directorial debut with the engaging teen comedy "Adventures in Babysitting"
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Milestone
Raised in Warren, Ohio
1973
Inspired to become a filmmaker after seeing "The Godfather"
Began making short super-8 films in high school
Sold first screenplay "Jocks" for $5,000 while at NYU; never produced
Sold screenplay for "Gremlins" to producer Steven Spielberg (produced in 1984)
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