When was the writer of a film about a young man who receives a strange creature called a mogwai as a pet born?
Chris Columbus (filmmaker) Chris Joseph Columbus (born September 10, 1958) is an American filmmaker. Columbus is known for directing movies such as "Home Alone" (1990), "" (1992), "Mrs. Doubtfire" (1993), "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" (2001), and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" (2002), and for writing movies such as "Gremlins" (1984) and "The Goonies" (1985).
George Ali George Ali (born George Bolingbroke; 1866-1947) was an actor who specialized in the "skin game", playing animals in stage and cinema productions, known as an Animal Impersonator . He performed in a number of stage plays, working as lions, tigers, and bears, but it was as the canine nursemaid Nana and the Crocodile in the 1924 film adaptation of "Peter Pan" for which he seems best remembered. Barrie had written the part expecting it to be played by a boy, but adults were cast for the technically demanding role. Ali played the character at the age of 58.