Steven Spielberg

Biography

Steven Allan Spielberg (/ˈspiːlbɜːrɡ/ SPEEL-burg; born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest film directors of all time and is the most commercially successful director in film history. Several of Spielberg's works are considered among the greatest films in history, and some are among the highest-grossing films ever. Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. He moved to California and studied film in college. After directing several episodes for television, including Night Gallery and Columbo, he directed the film Duel (1971), which Barry Diller approved. He made his theatrical debut with The Sugarland Express (1974) and became a household name with the summer blockbuster Jaws (1975). He directed more escapist box office successes with Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and the original Indiana Jones trilogy (1981–1989). He explored drama in The Color Purple (1985) and Empire of the Sun (1987). In 1993, Spielberg directed the science fiction thriller Jurassic Park, the highest-grossing film ever, and the epic historical drama Schindler's List, which has often been listed as one of the greatest films ever made. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the latter and the World War II epic Saving Private Ryan (1998). Spielberg has since directed the science fiction films A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Minority Report (2002), War of the Worlds (2005) and Ready Player One (2018); the historical dramas Amistad (1997), Munich (2005), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015) and The Post (2017); the comedies Catch Me if You Can (2002), and The Terminal (2004); the animated film The Adventures of Tintin (2011); the musical West Side Story (2021); and the family drama The Fabelmans (2022). Spielberg co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks and has produced many successful films and television series, including Poltergeist (1982), Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), and Band of Brothers (2001). He has also collaborated extensively with the composer John Williams, with whom he has worked on all but five of his feature films. Among other accolades, he has received three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and two BAFTA Awards, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, the Knight Commander of the British Empire in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". In 2013, Time listed him as one of the 100 most influential people, and in 2023, Spielberg was the recipient of the first-ever 100 Impact Award in the US. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Spielberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Cook County Assessor's Office Clerk

The Blues Brothers

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Remembering Stanley Kubrick

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TVTV: Video Revolutionaries

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The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

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Où est parti E.T. ? L'Enfance selon Spielberg

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The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson

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TVTV Looks at the Oscars

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50 Films to See Before You Die

Guest at David Aames' Party (uncredited)

Vanilla Sky

Man in Electric Wheelchair (uncredited)

Gremlins

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The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

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Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.

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Close Up

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Paul

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Spielberg on Spielberg

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Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible

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Something's Coming: West Side Story

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The Music of E.T.: A Discussion with John Williams

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Kurosawa

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The Sci-Fi Boys

Nickelodeon Studios Opening Day Celebration!

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The Stories of West Side Story

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UFO's Are Here!

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The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws"

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Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

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Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It

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Inventing David Geffen

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Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan

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The Making of '1941'

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Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck

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Voices from the List

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The Magical World of Chuck Jones

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A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

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Looking Back to the Future

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Milius

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The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

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Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

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In the Teeth of Jaws

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Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony

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Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book

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The Moviemakers: Spielberg

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Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'

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The Making of Poltergeist

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George Lucas: Creating an Empire

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Albert Brooks: Defending My Life

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Steven Spielberg, cinéaste prodige

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Waking Sleeping Beauty

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Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'

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Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford

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The Fabelmans: A Family in Film

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Drew: The Man Behind the Poster

Backlot Tour Guide

Your Studio and You

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The Making of 'Jaws'

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Sergio Leone - L'italiano che inventò l'America

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Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic

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The Concert for Valor

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Jaws: The Restoration

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Fallen Kingdom: Aboard The Arcadia

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Fallen Kingdom: Malcolm's Return

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Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand

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Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth

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And the Oscar Goes To...

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Science-fiction et paranoïa: La culture de la peur aux Etats-Unis

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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

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Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit

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Oprah & The Color Purple Journey

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Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain

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Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain

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The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen

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The Bloody Hundredth

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Back to Room 666

Amity Point Lifestation Worker (voice) (uncredited)

Jaws

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The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'

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Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark

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AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition

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View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'

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The Visions of Stanley Kubrick

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Back in Time

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The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'

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Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy

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Stanley Kubrick in Focus

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Mike Nichols: An American Master

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Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic

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The Making of 'Jurassic Park'

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The Beginning: Making Episode I

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Chambre 666

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Mifune: The Last Samurai

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Filip och Fredrik träffar Steven Spielberg - i en minut

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Music by John Williams

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Directed by John Ford

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Robert Capa: In Love and War

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Five Came Back

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Kubrick Remembered

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Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of

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Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera

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The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

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Spielberg

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Score: A Film Music Documentary

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Everything Is Copy

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Martin Scorsese Directs

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The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'

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Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

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Lawrence of Arabia: A Conversation with Steven Spielberg

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Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us

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David Lean: A Life in Film

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How Star Wars Was Saved in the Edit

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Warner at War

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The Making of Back to the Future

Party Guest

Something Evil

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A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics

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Jeux vidéo: Les nouveaux maîtres du monde

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The Making of 'The Goonies'

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Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'

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Kirk Douglas, l'indompté

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The Sound of 'Indiana Jones'

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The Music of 'Indiana Jones'

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Peter Falk Versus Columbo

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Star Wars: Music by John Williams

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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

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Forever Hollywood

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Duel: A Conversation with Director Steven Spielberg

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Trumbull Land

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Spielberg on Kubrick

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The 'E.T.' Journals

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Three Kinds of Close Encounters

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Return to Jurassic Park

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Lost in the Garden of the World

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The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'

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New England Our Way

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From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic

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The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun

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Tales from the Future

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The Joe Spinell Story

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Double Dare

Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation

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The Making of 'The Lost World'

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Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation

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American Beauty: Look Closer...

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In Search of Clarity: The Architecture of Gwathmey Siegel

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Blacks and Jews

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Lincoln: An American Journey

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Jaws: The Inside Story

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A Century of Cinema

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The Universal Story

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Searching for Orson

Tourist at Airport (uncredited)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Alien on TV Monitor (uncredited)

Men in Black

Popcorn-Eating Man (uncredited)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

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R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

Steven Spielberg / Famous Director ('Austinpussy')

Austin Powers in Goldmember

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Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis

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AFI's Master Class - The Art of Collaboration: Steven Spielberg and John Williams

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Star Wars vs. Star Trek: The Rivalry Continues

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The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped

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From Gizmo to Gremlins: Creating the Creatures

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Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special

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Indiana Jones : à la recherche de l'âge d'or perdu

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I Am Alfred Hitchcock

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Fog City Mavericks

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Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001

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Altman

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Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer

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Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy

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François Truffaut, le scénario de ma vie

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The Making of 'Band of Brothers'

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The Middle Passage

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SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

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The Making of 'The Color Purple'

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

169

Gender

Male

Birthday

1946-12-18

Place of Birth

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Also Known As

斯蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格