George Lucas
Biography
George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur. Lucas is known for creating the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founding Lucasfilm, LucasArts and Industrial Light & Magic. He served as chairman of Lucasfilm before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012. After graduating from the University of Southern California in 1967, Lucas co-founded American Zoetrope with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Lucas wrote and directed THX 1138 (1971), based on his earlier student short Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which was a critical success but a financial failure. His next work as a writer-director was the film American Graffiti (1973), inspired by his youth in early 1960s Modesto, California, and produced through the newly founded Lucasfilm. The film was critically and commercially successful, and received five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. Lucas's next film, the epic space opera Star Wars (1977), had a troubled production but was a surprise hit, becoming the highest-grossing film at the time, winning six Academy Awards and sparking a cultural phenomenon. Lucas produced and co-wrote the sequels The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). With director Steven Spielberg, he created, produced and co-wrote the Indiana Jones films Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Temple of Doom (1984), The Last Crusade (1989) and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). He also produced and wrote a variety of films and television series through Lucasfilm between the 1970s and the 2010s. In 1997, Lucas rereleased the Star Wars trilogy as part of a special edition featuring several alterations; home media versions with further changes were released in 2004 and 2011. He returned to directing with a Star Wars prequel trilogy comprising The Phantom Menace (1999), Attack of the Clones (2002), and Revenge of the Sith (2005). He last collaborated on the CGI-animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008–2014, 2020), the war film Red Tails (2012), and the CGI film Strange Magic (2015). Lucas is one of history's most financially successful filmmakers and has been nominated for four Academy Awards. His films are among the 100 highest-grossing movies at the North American box office, adjusted for ticket-price inflation. Lucas is considered a significant figure of the 20th-century New Hollywood movement. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Lucas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Disappointed Man
Beverly Hills Cop III
Self
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Self
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
Self - Filmmaker
Citizen Steve
Self
Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery
Self
Under the Helmet: The Legacy of Boba Fett
Self
Heckler
Self
From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga
Self (voice)
Robot Chicken: Star Wars
Self
Films Are Not Released, They Escape
Self
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Self
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
Self (archive footage)
Close Up
Self
The Beginning: Making Episode I
Self
Alien Planet
Self
Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible
Self
Star Wars: Within a Minute - The Making of Episode III
Self
Fog City Mavericks
Self
The Making of Star Wars
Self
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Willow: Behind the Magic
Self (archive footage)
Kurosawa
Self
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Self
The Sci-Fi Boys
Self
Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa
Self
Side by Side
Self
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
Self
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Self
Milius
Self
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Self
Hollywood's Master of Myth: Joseph Campbell - The Force Behind Star Wars
Self
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
Self
Young Indy Around the World
Self
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
Self
Journey Through the Labyrinth
Self
George Lucas: Maker of Films
Self
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
Self (archive footage)
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Self
Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed
Self
A Conversation with the Masters: The Empire Strikes Back 30 Years Later
Self
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth
Self
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
Self
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
Self (archive footage)
A Disturbance in the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Self
A Night at the Movies: George Lucas & The World of Fantasy Cinema
Self (archive footage)
The People vs. George Lucas
Self
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
Self
The Making of Captain EO
Self
Science-fiction et paranoïa: La culture de la peur aux Etats-Unis
Self
If These Walls Could Sing
Self
Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
Self
When Star Wars Ruled the World
Self
The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
Self
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
Self
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
Self
Face of Unity
Self
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self
Megadoc
Self (archive footage)
Jim Henson Idea Man
Self
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Himself
The Pixar Story
Self
The New Cinema
Man Kissing on Bridge (uncredited)
Hook
Self
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
Self
The Harryhausen Chronicles
Baron Papanoida (uncredited)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Self - Filmmaker
Music by John Williams
Self
State of the Art: The Pre-Visualization of 'Episode II'
Self
Star Warriors
Self
Spielberg
Self
Clone Wars: Bridging the Saga
Self
Martin Scorsese Directs
Self
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
Self
Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us
Self
Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood
Self
Tell Them Who You Are
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Filmmaker
Self
The Characters of Star Wars
Self
The Music of 'Indiana Jones'
Self
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
Self
Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi
Self
Star Wars: Music by John Williams
Self
The Phantom Menace 20 Years Later
Self
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Self (archive footage)
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self
Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing
Self
Criaturas de La guerra de las galaxias
Self
The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'
Self
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
Self
The Mythology of Star Wars
Self
Project Happiness
Self
Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Adventure Awaits
Self (archive footage)
The Skywalker Legacy
Self - Executive Producer (archive footage)
From Morf to Morphing: The Dawn of Digital Filmmaking
Self - Executive Producer
Willow: The Making of an Adventure
Self
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
Missionary (uncredited)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Alien on TV Monitor (uncredited)
Men in Black
Self
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Self
The Chosen One
Self
The Making of The Empire Strikes Back
Self
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
Self
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Indiana Jones : à la recherche de l'âge d'or perdu
Self
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Self
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
Self
映画の肖像 黒澤明 大林宣彦 映画的対話 MAKING OF 'DREAMS'
Self
Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero
self
Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter?
Self
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
self
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
Self - Filmmaker / Founder, ILM
Raiders, Raptors and Rebels: Behind the Magic of ILM
Self
Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa
Pinkie’s Pizza Employee (voice) (uncredited)
American Graffiti
Self
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Self
Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
119
Gender
Male
Birthday
1944-05-14
Place of Birth
Modesto, California, USA
Also Known As
George Walton Lucas Jr.