FACTBOX - Spielberg comes to Cannes

May 18 (Reuters) - Hollywood director Steven Spielberg, 61, is at the Cannes film festival on Sunday with "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull".

Here are some facts on Spielberg:

EARLY LIFE:

* Steven Allan Spielberg was born in December 1946 in Ohio.

* He made his first short film "Amblin'" (1969). The 24-minute film impressed executives at the television unit of Universal enough to offer Spielberg a job as a TV director.

* One of his early made-for-TV movies, "Duel" (1972), starring Dennis Weaver, was shown in cinemas in Europe, where it enjoyed both critical and commercial success.

FIRST SUCCESSES: