Steven Spielberg

Undoubtedly one of the most influential film personalities in the history of film, Steven Spielberg is perhaps Hollywood’s best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. Spielberg has countless big-grossing, critically acclaimed credits to his name, as producer, director and writer. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1946. He went to California State University Long Beach, but dropped out to pursue his entertainment career. He gained notoriety as an uncredited assistant editor on the classic western “Wagon Train”. Among his early directing efforts were Battle Squad (1961), which combined World War II footage with footage of an airplane on the ground that he makes you believe is moving. He also directed “Escape to Nowhere”, which featured children as World War Two soldiers, including his sister Anne Spielberg, and “The Last Gun”, a western. All of these were short films. The next couple of years, Spielberg directed a couple of movies that would portend his future career in movies. In 1964, he directed “Firelight”, a movie about aliens invading a small town. In 1967, he directed “Slipstream”, which was unfinished. However, in 1968, he directed “Amblin'”, which featured the desert prominently, and not the first of his movies in which the desert would feature so prominently. Amblin’ also became the name of his production company, which turned out such classics as “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial”. Spielberg had a unique and classic early directing project, “Duel”, with Dennis Weaver. In the early 1970s, Spielberg was working on TV, directing among others such series as Rod Serling’s “Rod Serling’s Night Gallery”, “Marcus Welby, M.D.” and “Murder by the Book”. All of his work in television and short films, as well as his directing projects, were just a hint of the wellspring of talent that would dazzle audiences all over the world. Directed: AI: Artificial Intelligence
Always (1989)
Amistad
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Color Purple
Empire of the Sun
E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial
Firelight
Hook
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Jaws
Jurassic Park
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Minority Report
Munich
1941
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler’s List
The Sugarland Express
The Terminal
Twilight Zone – The Movie
War of the Worlds
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