image
George Lucas
Directing
1944-05-14 - Present
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.
Credits
image
Star Wars
image
Raiders of the Lost Ark
image
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
image
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
image
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
image
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
image
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
image
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
image
The Empire Strikes Back
image
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
image
Return of the Jedi
image
Strange Magic
image
Labyrinth
image
Willow
image
Body Heat
image
The Land Before Time
image
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
image
Howard the Duck
image
Kagemusha
image
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
image
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
image
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
image
Red Tails
image
The Ewok Adventure
image
Inside the Labyrinth
image
Radioland Murders
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell
image
Powaqqatsi
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
image
More American Graffiti
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Journey of Radiance
image
Latino
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
image
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Darth Maul Returns
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Passion for Life
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, The Giver and Taker of Life
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Demons of Deception
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil
image
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Nightsisters Trilogy
image
Captain EO
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
image
Star Wars: Droids - The Pirates and the Prince
image
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920
image
Star Wars: Ewoks - The Haunted Village
image
Star Wars: Droids - Treasure of the Hidden Planet
image
Twice Upon a Time
image
Star Wars: Ewoks - Tales from the Endor Woods
Tin Pan Alley: Soundtrack of America
image
Hellfighters: Harlem’s Heroes of World War One
The World of John Ford
Ireland: Power of the Poets
image
Theodore Roosevelt and the American Century
The Secret Life of Edith Wharton
image
Powder Keg: Europe 1900-1914
Erich Von Stroheim: The Profligate Genius
image
The Best Intentions: The Paris Peace Conference
Ben Hecht: Shakespeare of Hollywood
image
Fighting for the Vote: Women’s Suffrage in America
The Rise of the Moguls: The Men Who Built Hollywood
Irving Thalberg: Hollywood's Boy Wonder