Top 10 facts about film director Steven Spielberg

Today is the 69th birthday of film director Steven Spielberg

 

TODAY is the 69th birthday of film director Steven Spielberg.

 

1. It is also the birthday of Brad Pitt (52 today) and Ray Liotta (61) and the 99th anniversary of the birth of Betty Grable.

2. When he was 12, he used his toy train to make a home movie of a train wreck.

3. He refused payment for his work directing the Oscar-winning Schindler’s List.

 

He is married to Kate Capshaw who played the female lead in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

He refused payment for his work directing the Oscar-winning Schindler’s List       

4. He is married to Kate Capshaw who played the female lead in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

5. Films directed by Spielberg have made more than $9billion. His personal worth is $3.6billion.

6. Steven Spielberg is the Godfather of both Gwyneth Paltrow and Drew Barrymore.

7. When Barrymore posed nude for Playboy magazine, he sent her a large blanket with a note attached saying “Cover yourself up”.

 

 

8. Spielberg’s cocker spaniel Elmer appears in The Sugarland Express, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, 1941, and Jaws, which is more of his films than any actor.

9. He doesn’t drink coffee.

10. His company Amblin Entertainment is named after his first film Amblin’, a 26-minute short made for Universal Studios in 1968.

 

Films directed by Spielberg have made more than $9billion

 

His company Amblin Entertainment is named after his first film Amblin’