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George Lucas

George Lucas

Acting · Writing · Production · Crew · Directing · Creator · Editing · Camera · Sound

Born May 14, 1944, Modesto, California, USA

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.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (125)
  • 2025Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story — Self
  • 2025Megadoc — Self
  • Mr. Scorsese — Self (archive footage)
  • 2025The Happiest Story on Earth: 70 Years of Disneyland — Self
  • 2024Jim Henson Idea Man — Self (archive footage)
  • 2024Music by John Williams — Self - Filmmaker
  • 2023Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero — Self
  • 2023Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter? — self
  • 2023Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford — Self
  • 2023Willow: Behind the Magic — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • 2022If These Walls Could Sing — Self
  • LIGHT & MAGIC — Self
  • Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy — Self
  • 2021Under the Helmet: The Legacy of Boba Fett — Self
  • Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian — Self - Creator of Star Wars
  • 2019Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound — Self
  • 2019Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Adventure Awaits — Self
  • 2019The Phantom Menace 20 Years Later — Self
  • James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction — Self
  • 2017Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies — Self
  • 2017Spielberg — Self
  • 2015Sean Connery: In His Own Words — Self
  • 2015Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel — Self
  • 2015Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond — Self
  • 2014A Night at the Movies: George Lucas & The World of Fantasy Cinema — Self
  • 2014Face of Unity — Self
  • 2014Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
  • "Th" Thorium Documentary — Self
  • 2013Drew: The Man Behind the Poster — Self
  • 2013Milius — Self
  • 2012Close Up — Self (archive footage)
  • 2012Side by Side — Self
  • 2011A Conversation with the Masters: The Empire Strikes Back 30 Years Later — Self
  • 2011Hollywood between Paranoia and Sci-Fi: The Power of Myth — Self
  • 2011Project Happiness — Self
  • 2010Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible — Self
  • 2010The People vs. George Lucas — Self (archive footage)
  • 2009Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel — Self
  • 2009Waking Sleeping Beauty — Self (archive footage)
  • 2008Indiana Jones 4: The Return of a Legend — Self
  • 2008Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood — Self
  • 2008Production Diary: Making of 'The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' — Self
  • 2008The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped — Self
  • 2008The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't — Self
  • 2007Fog City Mavericks — Self
  • 2007Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange' — Self
  • 2007Heckler — Self
  • 2007Journey Through the Labyrinth — Self
  • 2007Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 — Self
  • 2007Star Warriors — Self
  • 2007Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed — Self
  • 2007The Pixar Story — Self
  • 2007The Visions of Stanley Kubrick — Self
  • 2006Creatures from Star Wars — Self
  • 2006The Sci-Fi Boys — Self
  • 2005Alien Planet — Self
  • 2005Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema — Self
  • 2005Clone Wars: Bridging the Saga — Self
  • 2005Hollywood's Greatest Villains — Self
  • 2005Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa — Self
  • 2005Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa — Self
  • 2005The Chosen One — Self
  • The Colbert Report — Self (uncredited)
  • 2005Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us — Self
  • 2005Within a Minute: The Making of Star Wars Episode III — Self
  • 2004A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope — Self
  • 2004Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138' — Self
  • 2004Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing — Self
  • 2004Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy — Self
  • 2004Tell Them Who You Are — Self
  • 2004The Characters of Star Wars — Self
  • 2004The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing — Self
  • 2004When Star Wars Ruled the World — Self
  • 2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood — Self
  • 2003Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy — self
  • 2003The Music of 'Indiana Jones' — Self
  • 2003Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years — Self
  • 2002Films Are Not Released, They Escape — Self
  • 2002From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II — Self
  • 2002George Lucas: Creating an Empire — Self
  • 2002State of the Art: The Pre-Visualization of 'Episode II' — Self
  • 2001From Morf to Morphing: The Dawn of Digital Filmmaking — Self - Executive Producer (archive footage)
  • 2001R2-D2: Beneath the Dome — Self
  • 2001The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I — Self
  • 1999From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic — Self
  • 1999Hollywood's Master of Myth: Joseph Campbell - The Force Behind Star Wars — Self
  • TV total — Self
  • 1999The Mythology of Star Wars — Self
  • 1999The Unauthorized Star Wars Story — Self
  • Making Star Wars: Webdocs — Self
  • 1998Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs — Self
  • 1998The Making of 'American Graffiti' — Self
  • 1997Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery — Self
  • 1997The Harryhausen Chronicles — Self
  • The Daily Show — Self
  • 1996The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' — Self
  • 1995The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies — Self
  • 1994Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects — Self
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
  • 1993Young Indy Around the World — Self
  • 1992The Magical World of Chuck Jones — Self
  • 1991Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse — Self
  • 1991Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros. — Self
  • 1990Making of 'Dreams' — Self
  • 1990Martin Scorsese Directs — Self
  • 1988Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth — Self
  • 1988Willow: The Making of an Adventure — Self - Executive Producer
  • 1987Citizen Steve — Self - Filmmaker
  • 1986The Making of Captain EO — Self
  • Al TV — Self
  • 1984The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' — Self
  • 1983Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi — Self
  • 1983From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga — Self
  • 1981The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' — Self
  • 1980SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back — Self
  • 1980Star Wars: Music by John Williams — Self
  • 1980The Making of The Empire Strikes Back — Self
  • CBS News Sunday Morning — Self
  • Please Turn the Page — Self
  • 1977The Making of Star Wars — Self
  • Spécial cinéma — Self
  • 1971George Lucas: Maker of Films — Self
  • 1968The New Cinema — Self
  • Omnibus — Self
  • The Oscars — Self
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