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George Walton Lucas Jr. was born on May 14,1944 in Modesto, California... After surviving a near fatal auto accident George Lucas immediately enrolled in a local junior college in a successful attempt to bring his grades up high enough to be accepted in the University of Southern Californias film program. He interpreted film to mean photography, but once he began his work in motion pictures he knew it was what he loved.
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George Lucas
George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an Americanmovie director, producer, and screenwriter most famous for the Star Wars and Indiana Jones movie series.
He also directed the movies THX 1138 (1971) and American Graffiti (1973). He made the Indiana Jones series with Steven Spielberg. He is also an innovator for what he has done with special effects, and has founded companies that make not only movies, but also things like video games, theme park rides, and TV shows.
Lucas founded the Pixar animation studio and later sold it to Steve Jobs in 1986 for $10 million.[1]
Personal life
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He has three children: Katie, Amanda and Jett Lucas (born 1993). Jett has had cameo appearances in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith as Zett Jukassa.
Lucas began dating Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments and chair of DreamWorks Animation, in 2006.[2][3][4] Lucas and Hobson announced their engagement in January 2013,[5] and married on June 22, 2013 at Lucas's S
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George Lucas
American filmmaker (born 1944)
This article is about the American film director. For other people named George Lucas, see George Lucas (disambiguation).
George Walton Lucas Jr.[1] (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and philanthropist. He created the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founded Lucasfilm, LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic and THX. He served as chairman of Lucasfilm before selling it to the Walt Disney Company in 2012.[2] Nominated for four Academy Awards, he is considered to be one of the most significant figures of the 20th-century New Hollywood movement, and a pioneer of the modern blockbuster. Despite this, he has remained an independent filmmaker away from Hollywood for most of his career.[3]
After graduating from the University of Southern California in 1967, Lucas moved to San Francisco and co-founded American Zoetrope with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. He wrote and directed THX 1138 (1971), based on his student short Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which was a critical suc