Bio

George Lucas was born on May 14, 1944, in California in a modesto city. His father George is a walnut farmer, and his mother’s name is Dorothy. He has four sisters. George was not much interested in education, but in a car racing, but after a terrible accident, he had the desire to go to art school. However, his parents did not want to pay for him, so he instead went to study at Modesto Junior College. There he studied social science. George Lucas became interested in films and photography. Lucas made his first film there, about car racing, and he immediately met Haskell Wexler, a famous cameraman. Wexler helped Lucas enter the establishment of the film University of Southern California. At that time, he produced THX 1138: 4Eb.

Lucas graduated in 1969 and won a Warnerbrothers scholarship that helped him work at Finian’s Rainbow. While working on this film, he collaborated with Francis Ford Coppola, and he also participated in the film Coppola at the time. Lucas Thx-1138’s first film recreation became very famous that it was nominated for the Academy Award with a total of five times.

Star Wars

The Star Wars trilogy was the next Lucas’s big project which he directed in 1977. He only received $ 500 million from merchandise. Lucas also participated in the upcoming Star Wars trilogy, which is a prequel story from his 1977 Star Wars. He obtained a total of $ 1 billion from sales and $ 3 billion from Star Wars merchandise.

Other projects

In addition to one of his big hits, he also directed and produced the Indiana Jones trilogy. He created and participated more in the first film, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Other important films done by Lucas were The Man and his dreams and the murder of Radioland.

• George Lucas Net Worth 2019 and Family
• According to the 2022 evaluation, Lucas was worth around $ 5.5 billion.

George Lucas was married in 1969 with Marcia Griffin, and together with this couple had two adopted children, Katie and Jett. They also have a biological daughter, Amanda. The couple divorced in 1983, and in 2013 Lucas married Mellody Hobson. They have a daughter born in 2013, Everest Hobson Lucas.

Another fact

George Lucas is the owner of Lucasfilm and ILM, as we mentioned before. He is also the founder of Skywalker Ranch, who is a production house in California. The filmmaker has won the Life Achievement Awards, the National Medal of Arts Awards, Saturn and the Golden Globe Awards. He is also the recipient of honorary membership of the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers. Lucas is a charity man, and he tries to make all rich people chase his steps, and donate their money to various charity bodies. George Lucas Educational Foundation is one charity.