
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