# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-columbus
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:10:34.961Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-columbus"
name: "Chris Columbus"
slug: "chris-columbus"
description: "Christopher Joseph Columbus 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)."
tagline: "American filmmaker (born 1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chris_Columbus_-_Home_Alone_35th.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1958-09-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.14
  momentum:             0.05622077998934765
  historical:           25.835208
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0001060"
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    title: "Քրիստոֆեր Կոլամբուս"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump