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.
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Acting (109 movies)
Beverly Hills Cop III
1994
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
1996
Citizen Steve
1987
Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery
1997
Under the Helmet: The Legacy of Boba Fett
2021
Heckler
2007
From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga
1983
Robot Chicken: Star Wars
2007
Films Are Not Released, They Escape
2002
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
1991
Close Up
2012
The Beginning: Making Episode I
2001
Alien Planet
2005
Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible
2010
Star Wars: Within a Minute - The Making of Episode III
2005
Fog City Mavericks
2007
The Making of Star Wars
1977
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
2005
Willow: Behind the Magic
2023
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
The Sci-Fi Boys
2006
Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa
2005
Side by Side
2012
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
1992
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
Milius
2013
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1998
Hollywood's Master of Myth: Joseph Campbell - The Force Behind Star Wars
1999
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
2013
Young Indy Around the World
1993
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
2007
Journey Through the Labyrinth
2007
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed
2007
A Conversation with the Masters: The Empire Strikes Back 30 Years Later
2011
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
2023
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth
1988
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
1971
A Night at the Movies: George Lucas & The World of Fantasy Cinema
2014
The People vs. George Lucas
2010
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
2017
The Making of Captain EO
1986
Hollywood between Paranoia and Sci-Fi: The Power of Myth
2011
If These Walls Could Sing
2022
Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
2023
When Star Wars Ruled the World
2004
The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
1981
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
2007
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
2004
Face of Unity
2014
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
2015
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014
Megadoc
2025
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998
The Pixar Story
2007
The New Cinema
1968
Hook
1991
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
2015
The Harryhausen Chronicles
1997
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005
Music by John Williams
2024
State of the Art: The Pre-Visualization of 'Episode II'
2002
Star Warriors
2007
Spielberg
2017
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
2002
Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us
2005
Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood
2008
Tell Them Who You Are
2004
Filmmaker
1968
The Characters of Star Wars
2004
The Music of 'Indiana Jones'
2003
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
2005
Star Wars: Music by John Williams
1980
Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi
1983
The Phantom Menace 20 Years Later
2019
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019
Creatures from Star Wars
2006
The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'
1984
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
1999
The Mythology of Star Wars
1999
Project Happiness
2011
Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Adventure Awaits
2019
Willow: The Making of an Adventure
1988
From Morf to Morphing: The Dawn of Digital Filmmaking
2013
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
2015
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1984
Men in Black
1997
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
The Chosen One
2005
The Making of The Empire Strikes Back
1980
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
2008
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
2005
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
2021
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
2007
Making of 'Dreams'
1990
Directing (18 movies)
THX 1138
1971
American Graffiti
1973
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005
Freiheit
1966
Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB
1967
1:42.08
1966
Herbie
1966
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
1971
Filmmaker
1968
Le court des grands
2005
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anyone lived in a pretty [how] town
1967
Cinema16: American Short Films
2006
Look at Life
1965
The Emperor
1967
6-18-67
1967
Star Wars
1977