Raja Gosnell

Raja Gosnell is one of those directors whose name you may not know while his films practically raised a generation. Born in Los Angeles in 1958, he came up as an editor before moving to the chair, and you can feel that pedigree in the brisk timing of Home Alone 3, Never Been Kissed, Big Momma's House, the Scooby-Doo movies and the live-action Smurfs. Critics rarely garland this kind of work, but making something a kid and a parent can laugh at on the same couch is genuinely hard. I have a soft spot for craftsmen who reliably deliver weekend comfort.

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Name (English)

Raja Gosnell

Name (Japanese)

ラジャ・ゴズネル

Reading

らじゃ・ごずねる

Born

December 9, 1958 (age 67)

Origin

Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation

film director / film editor / director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dog

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja%20Gosnell
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B4%E3%82%BA%E3%83%8D%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q545351

Tags

• California
• film director
• film editor
• director

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.