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Steven Spielberg
Born · December 18, 1946 (78 years old)
Known For: Directing
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Bio
Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, writer and producer. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, he is the most commercially successful director of all time. Spielberg is the recipient of various accolades, including three Academy Awards, a Kennedy Center honor, four Directors Guild of America Awards, two BAFTA Awards, a Cecil B. DeMille Award and an AFI Life Achievement Award. Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". 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 television film Duel (1971) which gained acclaim from critics and audiences. He made his directorial film debut with The Sugarland Express (1974), and became a household name with the 1975 summer blockbuster Jaws. He then directed huge box office successes Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and the Indiana Jones original trilogy (1981-89). Spielberg subsequently explored drama in the acclaimed The Color Purple (1985) and Empire of the Sun (1987). After a brief hiatus, Spielberg directed the science fiction thriller Jurassic Park (1993), the highest-grossing film ever at the time, and the Holocaust drama Schindler's List (1993), 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 for the 1998 World War II epic Saving Private Ryan. Spielberg continued in the 2000s with science fiction films A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Minority Report (2002) and War of the Worlds (2005). He also directed the adventure films The Adventures of Tintin (2011) 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 musical West Side Story (2021); and the semi-autobiographical drama The Fabelmans (2022). He has been a producer on several successful films, including Poltergeist (1982), Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) as well as the miniseries Band of Brothers (2001). Spielberg co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks, and has served as a producer for many successful films and television series. He is also known for his long collaboration with the composer John Williams, with whom he has worked for all but five of his feature films. Several of Spielberg's works are among the highest-grossing and greatest films all time. Premiere ranked him first place in the list of 100 Most Powerful People in Movies in 2003. In 2013, Time listed him as one of the 100 most influential people.
Music by John Williams
Self - Filmmaker
8.2
2024
Steven Spielberg, the "New Hollywood" prodigy
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7.7
2024
François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
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7.7
2024
The Bloody Hundredth
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7.4
2024
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
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4.5
2023
Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
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8.6
2023
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
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7.8
2023
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
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7.5
2023
The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
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6.4
2023
The Moviemakers: Spielberg
5.4
2023
Où est parti E.T. ? L'Enfance selon Spielberg
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8.0
2023
The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
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7.1
2023
UFOs: Investigating the Unknown
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
6.2
2023
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
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7.7
2023
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
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7.3
2022
Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain
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7.6
2022
Light & Magic
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7.6
2022
The Stories of West Side Story
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7.8
2022
Something's Coming: West Side Story
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7.5
2021
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
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7.0
2021
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
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7.4
2021
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
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7.7
2021
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
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6.9
2021
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
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4.3
2021
Challenger: The Final Flight
Self - Director "Close Encounters" (archive footage) · (1 episode)
7.1
2020
The Drew Barrymore Show
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5.1
2020
Reunited Apart
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5.5
2020
Some Good News
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6.3
2020
Filip och Fredrik träffar Steven Spielberg - i en minut
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0.0
2019
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
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6.8
2019
Peter Falk Versus Columbo
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7.4
2019
TVTV: Video Revolutionaries
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0.0
2018
Trumbull Land
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7.6
2018
Fallen Kingdom: Aboard The Arcadia
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0.0
2018
Fallen Kingdom: Malcolm's Return
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6.0
2018
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Self · (5 episodes)
6.8
2018
How Star Wars Was Saved in the Edit
Self (voice) (archive footage)
6.7
2017
Spielberg
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7.6
2017
Three Kinds of Close Encounters
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6.0
2017
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
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6.2
2017
Five Came Back
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7.9
2017
Five Came Back
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7.3
2017
Score: A Film Music Documentary
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7.1
2017
Mifune: The Last Samurai
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7.1
2016
Video Games: The New Masters of the World
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7.0
2016
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
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8.0
2016
Mike Nichols: An American Master
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6.3
2016
Back in Time
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6.5
2015
Everything Is Copy
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7.3
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
(2 episodes)
6.6
2015
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
6.7
2014
The Concert for Valor
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8.6
2014
Kubrick Remembered
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6.5
2014
From Gizmo to Gremlins: Creating the Creatures
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7.0
2014
Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins
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7.0
2014
Altman
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6.4
2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
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7.0
2014
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
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7.0
2013
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
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6.0
2013
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
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6.1
2013
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
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5.9
2013
Milius
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7.0
2013
Lincoln: An American Journey
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5.5
2013
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
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6.0
2012
Inventing David Geffen
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7.5
2012
The 'E.T.' Journals
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10.0
2012
Jaws: The Restoration
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6.0
2012
Close Up
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9.0
2012
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
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7.5
2012
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
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6.5
2012
Honest Trailers
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
6.4
2012
Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
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7.0
2012
Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
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6.0
2011
AFI's Master Class - The Art of Collaboration: Steven Spielberg and John Williams
8.0
2011
Hollywood between Paranoia and Sci-Fi: The Power of Myth
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5.5
2011
Paul
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6.7
2011
Return to Jurassic Park
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6.6
2011
Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible
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6.7
2010
Tales from the Future
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7.5
2010
Jaws: The Inside Story
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7.3
2010
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
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8.0
2009
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
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6.8
2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Self (archive footage)
7.2
2009
The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws"
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7.1
2009
Looking Back to the Future
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8.0
2009
Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer
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6.5
2009
Warner at War
Narrator (voice)
7.0
2008
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
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6.5
2008
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
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6.0
2008
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
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6.0
2008
Back to Room 666
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5.5
2008
Fog City Mavericks
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8.5
2007
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
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6.0
2007
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
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7.4
2007
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
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6.9
2007
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
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6.0
2007
Spielberg on Spielberg
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7.5
2007
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
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6.4
2007
Searching for Orson
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5.5
2006
50 Films to See Before You Die
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8.5
2006
The Sci-Fi Boys
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7.0
2006
Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us
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6.4
2005
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
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0.0
2005
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
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7.0
2004
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
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7.5
2004
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
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7.7
2004
Duel: A Conversation with Director Steven Spielberg
Self
6.6
2004
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
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6.8
2004
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
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6.0
2004
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
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8.1
2004
Leçon de Cinéma
Self · (1 episode)
7.0
2004
Double Dare
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6.7
2004
Voices from the List
Self - Host
6.6
2004
Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation
6.2
2004
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
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6.5
2004
The Sound of 'Indiana Jones'
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6.0
2003
The Music of 'Indiana Jones'
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6.2
2003
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
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7.5
2003
Robert Capa: In Love and War
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7.0
2003
Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera
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8.3
2003
Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit
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7.0
2003
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Steven Spielberg / Famous Director ('Austinpussy')
6.0
2002
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
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7.3
2002
The Music of E.T.: A Discussion with John Williams
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5.0
2002
Star Wars vs. Star Trek: The Rivalry Continues
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1.5
2002
Vanilla Sky
Guest at David Aames' Party (uncredited)
6.8
2001
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
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6.5
2001
The Beginning: Making Episode I
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7.3
2001
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
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0.0
2001
The Joe Spinell Story
(archive footage)
5.7
2001
Primetime Glick
(1 episode)
6.9
2001
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
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6.9
2001
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
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7.4
2001
Lawrence of Arabia: A Conversation with Steven Spielberg
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7.6
2001
Kurosawa
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6.7
2000
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
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6.8
2000
American Beauty: Look Closer...
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7.3
2000
Spielberg on Kubrick
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6.5
1999
The Early Show
Self · (1 episode)
5.7
1999
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
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7.7
1999
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
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8.1
1999
Remembering Stanley Kubrick
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0.0
1999
Forever Hollywood
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8.0
1999
The Directors
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5.1
1999
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Self · (1 episode)
8.2
1998
Blacks and Jews
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6.0
1997
Men in Black
Alien on TV Monitor (uncredited)
7.2
1997
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Popcorn-Eating Man (uncredited)
6.5
1997
The Making of 'The Lost World'
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6.8
1997
Taff
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3.2
1997
In the Teeth of Jaws
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8.0
1997
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
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7.4
1996
The Making of '1941'
6.6
1996
The Universal Story
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7.7
1996
The Making of 'Jaws'
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6.7
1995
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
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7.1
1995
Your Studio and You
Backlot Tour Guide
6.8
1995
In Search of Clarity: The Architecture of Gwathmey Siegel
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0.0
1995
Inside the Actors Studio
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7.4
1994
A Century of Cinema
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8.0
1994
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
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8.0
1992
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
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6.0
1991
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
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6.7
1990
Tiny Toon Adventures
White Rabbit (voice) · (1 episode)
7.8
1990
Tiny Toon Adventures
Steven Spielberg (voice) · (1 episode)
7.8
1990
Martin Scorsese Directs
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9.0
1990
Nickelodeon Studios Opening Day Celebration!
0.0
1990
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
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6.3
1987
The Tracey Ullman Show
(1 episode)
7.0
1987
The Making of Back to the Future
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7.2
1986
The Making of 'The Goonies'
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6.7
1985
Cyndi Lauper: The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
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0.0
1985
David Lean: A Life in Film
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6.0
1985
The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'
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7.4
1984
Gremlins
Man in Electric Wheelchair (uncredited)
7.1
1984
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Tourist at Airport (uncredited)
7.3
1984
The Making of Poltergeist
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8.0
1982
Room 666
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6.4
1982
The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
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7.2
1981
Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark
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6.5
1981
Wetten, dass..?
Self · (1 episode)
5.5
1981
The Blues Brothers
Cook County Assessor's Office Clerk
7.7
1980
Star Wars: Music by John Williams
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7.3
1980
CBS News Sunday Morning
Self · (1 episode)
6.2
1979
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self · (1 episode)
7.3
1978
The South Bank Show
Self · (1 episode)
5.3
1978
Bitte umblättern
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
1977
UFO's Are Here!
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0.0
1977
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
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6.0
1976
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited) · (1 episode)
6.9
1975
Saturday Night Live
Self · (1 episode)
6.9
1975
Jaws
Amity Point Lifestation Worker (voice) (uncredited)
7.7
1975
Lost in the Garden of the World
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0.0
1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
1975
New England Our Way
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0.0
1974
Spécial cinéma
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0.0
1974
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self · (3 episodes)
6.3
1973
Something Evil
Party Guest
5.4
1972
Directed by John Ford
Self (2009)
6.8
1971
60 Minutes
Self · (2 episodes)
6.7
1968
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
1967
The Oscars
Self · (11 episodes)
7.0
1953