George Lucas

Directing · Born 1944-05-14 in Modesto, California, USA

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…

Filmography

• Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse as Self
• Robot Chicken: Star Wars as Self (voice)
• Side by Side as Self
• Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy as Self
• The Pixar Story as Self
• Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith as Baron Papanoida (uncredited)
• Spielberg as Self
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom as Missionary (uncredited)
• Men in Black as Alien on TV Monitor (uncredited)
• American Graffiti as Pinkie’s Pizza Employee (voice) (uncredited)

TV

• The O.C. as George Lucas
• The Daily Show as Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
• Al TV as Self
• The Oscars as Self
• James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction as Self
• TV total as Self
• Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy as Self
• Please Turn the Page as Self
• Just Shoot Me! as George Lucas