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FILM DIRECTOR

Chris Columbus

1958 - Today

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Chris Joseph Columbus (born September 10, 1958) is an American filmmaker. Born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, Columbus studied film at Tisch School of the Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. After writing screenplays for several teen comedies in the mid-1980s, he made his directorial debut with a teen adventure, Adventures in Babysitting (1987). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chris Columbus has received more than 38,498 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Chris Columbus is the 200th most popular film director (up from 310th in 2019), the 1,262nd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,058th in 2019) and the 56th most popular American Film Director.

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  • 38k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Chris Columbus ranks 200 out of 1,581Before him are Lewis Milestone, Richard Donner, Shohei Imamura, Jean Negulesco, Alan J. Pakula, and Otto Preminger. After him are Lev Kuleshov, Max Ophüls, Tony Richardson, Agnieszka Holland, Mike Newell, and Sam Raimi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Chris Columbus ranks 32Before him are Bruce Dickinson, Wong Kar-wai, Éric Zemmour, Janez Janša, Ellen DeGeneres, and Ralf Rangnick. After him are Annette Bening, Andre Geim, Andie MacDowell, Hugo Sánchez, Lambert Wilson, and Sergei Krikalev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Chris Columbus ranks 1,262 out of 18,182Before him are Dwight Schultz (1947), David McClelland (1917), Alyson Hannigan (1974), Timothy McVeigh (1968), Erskine Caldwell (1903), and Robert Rauschenberg (1925). After him are Alan J. Heeger (1936), Lisa Kudrow (1963), John Forsythe (1918), Joan Didion (1934), Dennis Rader (1945), and Joseph Erlanger (1874).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Chris Columbus ranks 56Before him are Vincente Minnelli (1903), Stanley Kramer (1913), Nicholas Ray (1911), Michael Moore (1954), Richard Donner (1930), and Alan J. Pakula (1928). After him are Sam Raimi (1959), John Sturges (1910), Wes Anderson (1969), Cecil B. DeMille (1881), Robert J. Flaherty (1884), and Spike Lee (1957).

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