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George Lucas
Biographical information
Born
May 14, 1944
Nationality
American
Career
Occupation
Filmmaker
Entrepreneur
Star Wars
work
Prequel and Original trilogies; see also Lucas's involvement with the EU
Other works of note
THX 1138
American Graffiti
Indiana Jones
Willow
[Source]
George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944[1]) is a four-time Academy
Awardnominated American film and television writer, director, and producer. He is
best known as creator of the epic Star Wars saga and the archaeologist-adventurer
character Indiana Jones. From 1977 to 2005, he served as co-writer and executive
producer of all six Star Wars films, as well as director for four of the films. He
also appeared in a cameo role in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. He is
famous for his advances in special effects and filming techniques.

Today, Lucas is one of the American film industry's most financially successful
independent directors/producers, with an estimated net worth of $5.1 billion.[2]
Contents[show]
Biography
Early life and education
George Walton Lucas Jr. was born in Modesto, California[1] to George Walton Lucas,
Sr. (19131991) and Dorothy Ellinore Bomberger Lucas on May 14, 1944. His father
was mainly of British and Swiss-German heritage and his mother was a member of a
prominent Modesto family (one of her cousins is the mother of former U.S. Secretary
of Agriculture and director of UNICEF Ann Veneman) and was mainly of German and
Scots-Irish heritage.

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George Lucas and Indiana
His parents sold retail office supplies and owned a walnut ranch in California. His
father ran a stationery store and owned a small walnut orchard. His mother was in
poor health, often bedridden, throughout Lucas's childhood. Lucas himself was short
and scrawny as a child; his younger sister reportedly fought with other kids who
picked on him. His experiences growing up in the sleepy suburb of Modesto and his
early passion for cars and motor racing would eventually serve as inspiration for
his Oscar-nominated low-budget phenomenon, American Graffiti. Before young Lucas
became obsessed with the movie camera, he attended Thomas Downey High School, where
he was an indifferent student at best. He was interested in race car driving; he
dreamed of becoming a professional race car driver. For better or worse, that dream
was abruptly ended in his early adulthood when on June 12, 1962, he crashed his
Autobianchi Bianchina in a car accident. The car was clipped from behind while he
tried to make a left turn into his driveway. The car rolled; the racing harness
that he had installed snapped, and he was thrown from the car. Had the harness not
snappedand Lucas has said it shouldn't havehe would most likely have been crushed
to death by the steering column when the car smashed into a walnut tree. (The force
of the impact uprooted the tree.) As it was, emergency personnel had difficulty
finding a pulse and at first thought him dead.

During his recovery, Lucas reevaluated his life and decided to go to college after
graduating high school. He enrolled at Modesto Junior College, where he earned an
AA degree and developed a passion for cinematography and camera tricks. During this
time an experimental filmmaker named Bruce Baillie tacked up a bedsheet in his
backyard in 1960 to screen the work of underground, avant-garde 16 mm filmmakers
like Jordan Belson, Stan Brakhage and Bruce Conner. For the next few years,
Baillie's series, dubbed Canyon Cinema, toured local coffeehouses, where art films
shared the stage with folksingers and stand-up comedians.
These events became a magnet for the teenage Lucas and his boyhood friend John
Plummer. The 19-year-olds began slipping away to San Francisco to hang out in jazz
clubs and find news of Canyon Cinema screenings in flyers at the City Lights
bookstore. Already a promising photographer, Lucas became infatuated with these
abstract films.
"That's when George really started exploring," Plummer recalls. "We went to a
theater on Union Street that showed art movies, we drove up to San Francisco State
for a film festival, and there was an old beatnik coffeehouse in Cow Hollow with
shorts that were really out there." It was a season of awakening for Lucas, who had
been a D-plus slacker in high school.
At an autocross track, Lucas met his first mentor in the film industry - famed
cinematographer Haskell Wexler, a fellow aficionado of sleek racing machines.
Wexler was impressed by the way the shy teenager handled a camera, cradling it low
on his hips to get better angles. "George had a very good eye, and he thought
visually," he recalls.
Lucas then transferred to the University of Southern California School of Cinematic
Arts in Los Angeles. USC was one of the earliest universities to have a school
devoted to film studies. During the years at USC, George Lucas shared a dorm room
with Randal Kleiser. Lucas was deeply influenced by the Filmic Expression course
taught at the school by filmmaker Lester Novros which concentrated on the non-
narrative elements of Film Form like color, light, movement, space, and time.
Another huge inspiration was the Serbian montagist (and dean of the USC Film
Department) Slavko Vorkapich who had been a colleague of Sergei Eisenstein's before
moving to Hollywood to make stunning montage sequences for studio features at MGM
and Paramount. Vorkapich taught the autonomous nature of the cinematic art form,
emphasizing the unique dynamic quality of movement and kinetic energy inherent in
moving film images.
Lucas saw many inspiring movies in class, particularly the visual films coming out
of the National Film Board of Canada like Arthur Lipsett's 21-87, the French-
Canadian cameraman Jean-Claude Labrecque's cinema verite 60 Cycles, the work of
Norman McLaren, and the documentaries of Claude Jutra. Lucas fell madly in love
with pure cinema and quickly became prolific at making 16 mm nonstory noncharacter
visual tone poems and cinema verite with such titles as Look At Life, Herbie,
1:42.08, The Emperor, Anyone Lived in a Pretty (how) Town, filmmaker, and 6-18-67.
He was passionate and interested in cinematography and editing, defining himself as
a filmmaker as opposed to being a director, and he loved making abstract visual
films that create emotions purely through cinema.
After graduating with a bachelor of fine arts in film in 1967, he drifted a little,
trying to figure out what to do next. He tried joining the United States Air Force
as an officer, but was turned down because of his numerous speeding tickets. He was
later drafted by the Army, but tests showed he had diabetes, the disease that
killed his paternal grandfather. Lucas was prescribed medication for the disease,
but his symptoms are sufficiently mild that he does not require insulin and would
not be considered diabetic under the disease's current classification.[3]
In 1967, Lucas re-enrolled as a USC graduate student in film production. Working as
a teaching instructor for a class of U.S. Navy students who were being taught
documentary cinematography, Lucas directed the short film Electronic Labyrinth: THX
1138 4EB, which won first prize at the 1967-68 National Student Film Festival, and
was later adapted into his first full-length feature film, THX 1138. Lucas was
awarded a scholarship by Warner Brothers to observe the making of Finian's Rainbow
(1968) which was being directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who at the time was
revered among film-school students as a cinema graduate who had "made it."
Film career
"I thought it was too wacky for the general public."
?George Lucas on Star Wars[src]
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The companies that George Lucas built
Lucas co-founded the studio American Zoetrope with Coppolawhom he met during his
internship at Warner Brothershoping to create a liberating environment for
filmmakers to direct outside the perceived oppressive control of the Hollywood
studio system. American Zoetrope never really succeeded, but from the financial
success of his films American Graffiti (1973) and Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope,
is highly regarded in the gaming industry.

San Anselmo is a city in California and arguably, according to George Lucas, the
birthplace of Star Wars. On June 20, 2013, George Lucas donated two bronze statues
to Imagination Park. The statues were of Yoda and the first life-sized statue of
Indiana Jones.[4]
Following the success of American Graffiti, Lucas proposed a new Flash Gordon film
adaptation, but the rights were not available. Under the American Zoetrope banner
Lucas developed Apocalypse Now to direct following work on Star Wars. As work on
Star Wars dragged on, Coppola took over directing Apocalypse Now, leading to the
breakdown of the American Zoetrope partnership.
Lucas was also influential in the development of industry-standard post-production
tools such as the Avid Film and Video non-linear editor, first developed as the
Edit Droid, and the Sound Droid, which later became the Digidesign Pro Tools sound
editing and mixing software.
The animation studio Pixar was founded as the Graphics Group, one third of the
Computer Division of Lucasfilm. Pixar's early computer graphics research resulted
in groundbreaking effects in films such as Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan[5] and
Young Sherlock Holmes,[5] and the group was purchased in 1986 by Steve Jobs shortly
after he left Apple Computer. Jobs paid U.S. $5 million to Lucas and put U.S. $5
million as capital into the company. The sale reflected Lucas's desire to stop the
cash-flow losses associated with his seven-year research projects associated with
new entertainment technology tools, as well as his company's new focus on creating
entertainment products rather than tools. A contributing factor was cash-flow
difficulties following Lucas's 1983 divorce concurrent with the sudden drop-off in
revenues from Star Wars licenses following the release of Return of the Jedi. (Some
twenty years later, on January 24, 2006, Disney announced that it had agreed to buy
Pixar for approximately $7.4 billion in an all-stock deal.)
On a return-on-investment basis, Star Wars proved to be one of the most successful
films of all time. During the filming of Star Wars, Lucas waived his up-front fee
as director and negotiated to own the licensing rightsrights which the studio
thought were nearly worthless. This decision earned him hundreds of millions of
dollars, as he was able to directly profit from all the licensed games, toys, and
collectibles created for the franchise. In 2006 Forbes Magazine estimated Lucas's
personal wealth at U.S. $3.5 billion. In 2005 Forbes.com estimated the lifetime
revenue generated by the Star Wars franchise at nearly $20 billion.
Some considered Star Wars to be the first "high concept" film, while others feel
the first was Steven Spielberg's Jaws, released two years prior. In fact, Lucas and
Spielberg had been acquaintances for some time and eventually worked together on
several films, notably the first Indiana Jones vehicle, Raiders of the Lost Ark in
1981. Along with Spielberg, Lucas is credited with (and even blamed for)
establishing the blockbuster approach to filmmaking.
Lucas and director Steven Spielberg enjoy a friendship that dates to their college
years, and that has resulted in collaborations on films including the Indiana Jones
movies Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984),
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the
Crystal Skull (2008).
The Directors Guild of America fined Lucas for refusing to have a standard title
sequence in his Star Wars films. After paying the fine, he quit the guild. This
made it hard for him to find a director for some of his later projects. According
to some, he wanted his friend Spielberg to direct some of the later Star Wars
movies, but as a member of the guild Spielberg may have been unable to do so.
Spielberg has repeatedly stated that Lucas consciously did not let him direct any
Star Wars films, despite the fact that Spielberg wanted to. Other directors Lucas
pursued to aid him were David Lynch and David Cronenberg, both of whom declined.
Lucas was influential in the development of industry-standard post-production tools
such as the Avid Film and Video non-linear editor, first developed as the Edit
Droid, and the Sound Droid, which later became the Digidesign Pro Tools sound
editing and mixing software.
On October 3, 1994, Lucas started to write the three Star Wars prequels, and on
November 1 that year, he left the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business
and started a sabbatical to finish the prequels.
He recently announced that he would produce a TV series about Star Wars, which
would take place between episodes III and IV. Lucas purportedly also announced that
he plans on making two additional Star Wars films that will take place after Return
of the Jedi, but this rumor was debunked at Celebration IV in Los Angeles,
California, in May 2007. When Steve Sansweet, Director of Content Management and
Head of Fan Relations at Lucasfilm, was asked about the proposed two films
postReturn of the Jedi, he stated that it was a misunderstanding of what Lucas was
explaining. According to Sansweet, Lucas was referring to the two Star Wars
television projects then in production: Star Wars: Clone Wars which is a CG
animated show that debuted October 3, 2008, and a yet-to-be-titled Star Wars live-
action show that was set to premiere in 2009, the development status of which is
currently uncertain.
Lucas appears in an interview on the January 15, 2008 DVD release of the Family Guy
episode "Blue Harvest," which parodied Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.
After The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm, Lucas provided story material for
the seventh film, which would ultimately be titled Star Wars: Episode VII The Force
Awakens. Disney, however, ultimately chose not to use Lucas's story ideas in the
final film. In interviews regarding the matter, Lucas stated that Disney "looked
at the stories and they said, 'We want to make something for the fans.' People
don't actually realize it's actually a soap opera and it's all about family
problems it's not about spaceships. So they decided they didnt want to use those
stories, they decided they were going to do their own thing so I decided, 'fine.
I'll go my way and I let them go their way.'"[6]
Innovations in film
How StarWars Changed the World
Promotional poster depicting "how George Lucas and Star Wars changed the world"
Besides his directorial and production work on movies, Lucas is one of the most
significant contemporary contributors to modern movie technology. In 1975 Lucas
established Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) in Van Nuys, California, which was
responsible for the invention of the special computer-assisted camera crane
"Dykstraflex" that was used for most of the space fight sequences in the Star Wars
movies (technology which was later adopted by most other visual effects production
units, such as those responsible for Battlestar Galacticaconsidered very similar
to Star Wars by manyand Star Trek: The Next Generation). Through ILM, Lucas
spurred the further development of computer graphics, film laser scanners, and the
earliest use of 3D computer character animation in a film, Young Sherlock Holmes.
Lucas sold his early computer development unit to Steve Jobs in 1988, which was
renamed Pixar.

Lucas is also responsible for the modern sound systems found in many movie
theaters. Though Lucas didn't invent THX, he is responsible for its development.
Now Lucas is spearheading digital photography for movies. Though personal digital
photography is now mainstream, most movie studios still use traditional cameras and
film for movie production. Lucas departed from this model by filming Star Wars:
Episode II Attack of the Clones completely digitally. He showed the result to a
select audience of the Hollywood elite, before the movie's general release. For the
presentation, Lucas used a special digital projection system. The attendees said
the movie had the clearest and sharpest presentation they had ever seen.
Despite the successful demonstration of the technology, movie studios are slow to
move to this new model, in part because of the high price of the digital equipment.
But digital movie photography has several advantages:
Footage can be reviewed immediately on set after shooting, rather than having to
wait for dailies to be printed.
Digital editing is much easier and less expensive since the movie is already in
digital form.
Movies stored digitally are less susceptible to decay and degradation in quality.
Transferring digital movies to DVD is much cheaper since both forms are digital.
Awards, donations and other activities
Lucas was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Directing and Writing for
American Graffiti, and Best Directing and Writing for Star Wars. He also received
the Academy's Irving G. Thalberg Award in 1991. He appeared at the 79th Academy
Awards ceremony in 2007 with Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola to present
the Best Director award. During the speech, Spielberg and Coppola talked about the
joy of winning an Oscar, making fun of Lucas, who has not won a competitive Oscar.

Obama and Lucas

US President Barack Obama awards George Lucas with the National Medal of Arts
The American Film Institute awarded Lucas its 2005 Life Achievement Award on June
9, 2005.[7] This was shortly after the release of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of
the Sith, to which he jokingly made reference in his acceptance speech, stating
that, since he views the entire Star Wars series as one movie, he could actually
receive the award now that he had finally "gone back and finished the movie."

On June 5, 2005, Lucas was named 100th "Greatest American" by the Discovery
Channel.
In 2005, Lucas donated US$1 million to help build the Martin Luther King, Jr.
National Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D.C. to commemorate American
civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr..[8]
On September 19, 2006, USC announced that George Lucas had donated $175 million to
his alma mater to expand the film school. It is the largest single donation to USC
and the largest gift to a film school.[9] Previous donations led to the already
existing George Lucas Instructional Building and Marcia Lucas Post-Production
building.[10][11]
In 1991, The George Lucas Educational Foundation was founded as a nonprofit
operating foundation to celebrate and encourage innovation in schools. The
Foundation's content is available under the brand Edutopia, in an award-winning
magazine, on a website and via documentary films.
On January 1, 2007 George Lucas served as the Grand Marshal for the 2007 Tournament
of Roses Parade, and made the coin toss at the 2007 Rose Bowl. The toss favored
Lucas's alma mater, the Trojans. His team, which came into the game as underdogs,
went on to defeat the Michigan Wolverines (32-18).
On June 12, 2013, George Lucas received the Nora Zarky Humanitarian Award, an award
for those who demonstrated support for the advancement of equal opportunity for
all.[12]
On July 10, 2013, George Lucas received the National Medal of Arts from United
States President Barack Obama himself, inside the White House.[13]
On September 20, 2013, SFMOMA hosted a party for the Bay Area Treasure Award, and
honored George Lucas for the year.[14]
Personal life
In 1969, Lucas married film editor Marcia Lou Griffin, who went on to win an Oscar
for her editing work on the Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. They adopted a
daughter, Amanda (b. 1981), before divorcing in 1983. Lucas subsequently adopted
two more children as a single parent: daughter Katie (b. 1988) and son Jett (b.
1993). [15] Lucas began dating Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments and
chair of DreamWorks Animation, in 2006. She accompanied him to the 79th Academy
Awards ceremony in February 2007. As of January 2013, George Lucas became engaged
to Hobson.[16] The two were married on Saturday, June 22, 2013 at Skywalker Ranch.
[17] They have one daughter together, Everest Hobson Lucas, who was born via
gestational carrier on August 12, 2013.[15]

Lucas was born and raised in a strongly Methodist family. After inserting religious
themes into Star Wars he would eventually come to identify strongly with the
Eastern religious philosophies he studied and incorporated into his movies, which
were a major inspiration for "the Force." Lucas eventually came to state that his
religion was "Buddhist Methodist."[18]
Lucas is a well-known aficionado of cars and racing.
Filmography/Bibliography
LucasPanavision-MOSW
George Lucas on the set of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
Short and student films
Title Released Role(s)
Freiheit 1966 writer, director, and editor
Look at Life 1965 writer, director, and editor
The Bus 1965 production assistant
Grand Prix 1966 additional camera operator
Herbie 1966 writer, director, and editor
1:42:08 1966 writer, director, and editor
The Emperor 1967 writer and director
Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138: 4EB 1967 writer and director
Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town 1967 writer, director, and editor
6-18-67 1967 writer, director, and editor
Filmaker 1968 writer, director, and editor
Finian's Rainbow 1968 uncredited production assistant
The Rain People 1969 associate producer
Gimme Shelter 1970 co-cinematographer
Captain EO 1986 story and exec. producer
Star Tours 1987 characters, story, exec. producer
Rush Rush 1991 producer
Rollin' with Saget 2006 cameo at 1:43
Feature films
Colbert Lucas
As part of his humorous side, Lucas made a cameo on The Colbert Report, in which he
engaged in a lightsaber "duel" with Steven Colbert using Master Replicas
lightsabers.
Title Released Role(s)
THX 1138 1971 director, story, co-writer
American Graffiti 1973 director, story, co-writer
Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope 1977 director, story, writer, exec. producer
More American Graffiti 1979 exec. producer
Kagemusha[19] 1980 exec. producer[20]
Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back story, uncredited co-writer[21],
exec. producer, uncredited co-director
Body Heat 1981 uncredited exec. producer
Raiders of the Lost Ark story,[22] exec. producer, uncredited second unit director
Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi 1983 exec. producer, story, co-writer,
uncredited co-director
Twice Upon a Time exec. producer
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984 story, exec. producer, cameo as
"Tourist boarding plane"
Latino 1985 uncredited co-producer and co-editor
Mishima exec. producer
Howard the Duck 1986 exec. producer
Labyrinth exec. producer
Powaqqatsi 1988 exec. producer
Willow story, exec. producer
Tucker: The Man and His Dream exec. producer
The Land Before Time exec. producer
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 story,[23] exec. producer
Hook 1991 cameo as "Man kissing on bridge"
Beverly Hills Cop III 1994 cameo as "Disappointed Man"
Radioland Murders story, exec. producer
Men in Black 1997 uncredited cameo as himself
Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace 1999 director, story, writer, exec.
producer
Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones 2002 director, story, co-writer,
exec. producer
Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith 2005 director, story, writer,
exec. producer, cameo as "Baron Papanoida"
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2008 story, exec. producer
Star Wars: The Clone Wars story, exec. producer
Red Tails 2012 story, executive producer
Strange Magic 2015 story, executive producer
Television
Title Released Role(s)
The Star Wars Holiday Special 1978 story
Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure 1984 characters, story, exec. producer
Star Wars: Droids 19851986 characters, exec. producer
Star Wars: Ewoks 19851987 characters, exec. producer
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor 1985 characters, story, exec. producer
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles 19921996 characters, stories, exec. producer
Just Shoot Me!: "It's Raining Babies" 2003 cameo as himself
Star Wars: Clone Wars 20032005 characters, executive producer
The O.C. 2005 cameo as himself
The Colbert Report 2006 cameo as green screen finalist "George L."
Robot Chicken: Star Wars 2007 voice of himself
Star Wars: The Clone Wars 20082014 executive producer
Star Wars: Underworld TBA characters, exec. producer
Star Wars: Detours TBA characters
Novels
Title Released Role(s)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope novelization 1976 credited writer[24]
Splinter of the Mind's Eye 1978 foreword to 1996 reprint
The Mata Hari Affair 1992 story
Shadow Moon 1995 story
Shadow Dawn 1998 story
Shadow Star 2000 story
New Jedi Order 1999 - 2003 approved story
Shatterpoint 2003 prologue to paperback edition
Lucas also served as a producer on the video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed,
and many Expanded Universe and fan productions have one form or another of the
credit "Special thanks to George Lucas."

Criticism
George Lucas receives a large amount of negative attention from fans who claim that
his recent actions influencing the Star Wars galaxy detract from the overall value
of the saga. People who argue this point vehemently are sometimes called "Lucas
Bashers."

Lucas bashing is a form of criticism of the works of George Lucas. Whereas normal
criticism typically involves pragmatic engagement on the artistic merits of a work,
Lucas bashing is characterised by a prejudicial stance often combined with personal
attacks.
Filmmaking style and trademarks
A common theme throughout Lucas's works is escape. Lucas's films tend to emphasize
visuals and plot. They often include chase scenes of some sort, and are often
edited to move along at a fast pace. Lucas has a love of the past, and many of his
works indicate this (American Graffiti, the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, The
Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Radioland Murders, and Red Tales.) Additionally,
his USC student films and THX 1138 were designed to be abstract and esoteric.

Trivia
Lucas with script
Lucas on the back of Tag & Bink Were Here
Lucas considers himself a "Trekkie" and has cited Star Trek as his inspiration for
working with sci-fi. He also finds hypothetical "war" scenarios distasteful.[25]

In 1976, Lucas published a novelization of A New Hope, which was initially (like
the film) titled just Star Wars. Although Lucas was credited as author of the book,
it was later revealed that the book was actually ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster,
who would also write Splinter of the Mind's Eye, the first original Star Wars novel
and, in many respects, the first Star Wars sequel.
Lucas is a member of the United Methodist Church, though he claims that he doesn't
believe in a specific religion, due to his college studies.[source?]
In his spare time, Lucas enjoys playing Star Wars video games with his children. He
has also been known to read some of the Star Wars comic books, including Dark
Empire. At one point, Lucas even said that he liked the story presented in the Star
Wars: Shadows of the Empire multimedia project so well, that if he had had the
story in the 1980s, he might have produced a film based on the events in it;
[source?] in addition, Dash Rendar's Outrider was added leaving Mos Eisley during
the special edition of A New Hope.
In addition to his role as Baron Notluwiski Papanoida, Lucas has made two Expanded
Universe appearances. His name was modified for Egroeg Sacul, a character paged on
the Star Tours ride, and his likeness was used for a limited-edition action figure
of a character called Jorg Sacul.
Lucas TPA Cameo
Lucas cameo on Mrlsst in Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron: The Phantom Affair
Lucas also appears twice in the Tag and Bink comics. He appears in Tag & Bink:
Revenge of the Clone Menace in Dex's Diner and is depicted among the many
characters chasing Tag Greenley and Bink Otauna on the back of the Tag and Bink
Were Here trade paperback. Lucas also appears in the third part of the Star Wars:
X-Wing Rogue Squadron: The Phantom Affair comic.

On June 5, 2005, Lucas was named the 100th "Greatest American" by the Discovery
Channel.
In Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, there's a bust of George Lucas in
the Jedi Archives.
In the non-canon special LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace, George Lucas makes an
appearance, where he has to herd Darth Vader off screen after Vader interrupts
scenes by inserting himself into them. He eventually tells Vader to get off of the
set.
Bibliography
Wiki-shrinkable
Wookieepedia has a collection of quotes related to George Lucas.
GalaxyCite "Boba Fett: Mystery Man in Not-So-Shining Armor"Star Wars Galaxy
Magazine 1
The Secrets of Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire Limited Collector's Edition
Empire Building: The Remarkable Real Life Story of Star Wars
Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide
SWCustom-2011 Star Wars Rebels: The Empire Returns on StarWars.com (backup link)
SWCustom-2011 SDCC 2014: Star Wars: A New Dawn Panel Liveblog on StarWars.com
(backup link)
SWInsider "Cowboy Jedi"Star Wars Insider 152
SWInsider "A Trip to the Light Side"Star Wars Insider 152
Notes and references
? 1.0 1.1 Contemporary Motivators: Star Wars
? George Lucas. Forbes. Retrieved on December 29, 2016.
? According to Interview and Q&A with George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan, and Frank
Darabont, by Drew Casper, CTCS 469 Film & Television Style Analysis, Spring 2000, a
videotape published by the University of California in April 12, 2000, filmed in
the university's Norris Cinema Theater
? JediNews.co.uk (06-21-2013). George Lucas Presents Indiana Jones and Yoda Statues
to San Anselmo (English). Retrieved on June 25, 2013.
? 5.0 5.1 Hormby, Thomas (2007-01-22). The Pixar Story: Dick Shoup, Alex Schure,
George Lucas, Steve Jobs, and Disney. Low End Mac. Retrieved on March 1, 2007.
? Goldberg, Matt (November 20, 2015). 'Star Wars': George Lucas Explains Why He and
Disney Disagreed on New Trilogy. Collider. Retrieved on November 21, 2015.
? 2005 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to George Lucas on USA Network
? [1]
? Stuart Silverstein, George Lucas Donates USC's Largest Single Gift, The Los
Angeles Times, September 19, 2006.
? George Lucas Instructional Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts.
? Marcia Lucas Post-Production, USC School of Cinematic Arts.
? [2]
? [3]
? Facebook.com
? 15.0 15.1 Newlyweds George Lucas and Mellody Hobson welcome a baby girl
? George Lucas, Mellody Hobson Engaged: 'Star Wars' Director, Businesswoman Set To
Marry (English). Huffington Post (1-3-2013). Retrieved on January 3, 2013.
? George Lucas, Mellody Hobson Tied The Knot This Weekend (English). TheForce.net
(6-24-2013). Retrieved on June 24, 2013.
? [4]
? also known as The Shadow Warrior
? of international edition
? The Making of The Empire Strikes Back
? (with Philip Kaufman)
? (with Menno Meyjes)
? The novel is credited to Lucas, but was ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster; based
on Lucas's story and screenplay.
? Pollock, Dale. Skywalking: the Life and Films of George Lucas. ISBN 0306809044
Silberman, Steve "Life After Darth" Wired, November 2005
"George Lucas: Interviews" University Press of Mississippi (February 16, 2007)
The Cinema of George Lucas (Hardcover) by Marcus Hearn, Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
(March 1, 2005)
Michael Rubin, "Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution" (2005) [ISBN
0937404675]
In-Three's Dimensionalized TM 3D Movies at ShoWest
Edutopia: "Life On The Screen" The filmmaker argues that students must learn a new
language of image and sound in order to succeed.
External links
IMDb favicon George Lucas at the Internet Movie Database
George Lucas at the Notable Names Database
WP favicon George Lucas on Wikipedia
Lucas bio page at Lucasfilm.com
SWicon Press Conference in Italy on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup
link)
SWicon George Lucas Speaks at ShoWest on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup
link)
SWicon George Lucas In Style on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
SWicon George Lucas Comments from New York City on StarWars.com (content now
obsolete; backup link)
SWicon Berkeley Lucas Q&A on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
SWicon Lucas on Innovation on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
SWicon Lucas Presents Maestro Award to Williams on StarWars.com (content now
obsolete; backup link)
SWicon Caserta Press Conference on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
SWicon George Lucas Interview - The Story Comes First on StarWars.com (content now
obsolete; backup link)
The George Lucas Educational Foundation
Resource and Entertainment by FilmMakers Magazine
[5] Viewable Clips from Lucas's student films
[6] George Lucas Plaza
Skywalker Ranch The George Lucas Fanlisting
george.lucas.net, Inside Skywalker Ranch
A Tribute for 28 Years of Star Wars, Sign the Letter to George Lucas.
AFI Life Achievement 2005
Interview with Lucas, including video and full biography at Achievement.org
Write George Lucas and read other fan mail to George
"Life after Darth": an in-depth look at George Lucas's artistic influences and
future aspirations from Wired
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