Steven Spielberg
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12/17/1946
Cincinnati, OH |
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| Directed a high-school production of Peter Pan. As an adult, he directed the lavish 1991 Peter Pan update, Hook, starring Robin Williams. |
| Came up with the story for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) with producer George Lucas and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan over five days. |
| Wanted John Wayne to play Gen. Stilwell in 1941 (1979), but the Duke lost interest when he learned the film's story (about the hysteria that followed Pearl Harbor) included two American planes |
| Was given an inexpensive Kodak movie camera when he was 12, which spurred his imagination; liked to create and film train wrecks on his toy railroad. |
| His own boyhood fears, including a tree outside his window, formed the basis for Poltergeist (1982), which he wrote and produced. |
