JURASSIC PARK DIRECTOR'S FATHER PASSES AWAY AT 103; FILM INDUSTRY PAYS HOMAGE

Steven was with his father on the night of his death, according to a statement, telling him, “You are our hearth. You are our home.” 

He also said of his father, who was an engineer at General Electric, “When I see a PlayStation, when I look at a cell phone — from the smallest calculator to an iPad — I look at my dad and I say, ‘My dad and a team of geniuses started that.’”

Besides Steven, he had three daughters, Anne, Nancy and Sue. In a joint statement, Spielberg’s children said their father taught them to “love to research, expand their mind, keep their feet on the ground, but reach for the stars [and] look up.”