George Lucas

George Lucas is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur who created Star Wars and founded Lucasfilm. Following his feature debut, THX 1138, he directed American Graffiti, whose success helped support the development of his space-fantasy series.

To realise Star Wars, Lucas established Industrial Light & Magic and developed sound-production capabilities that became Skywalker Sound. His company also produced the Indiana Jones adventures and expanded into games, animation and publishing. Lucas’s work helped connect popular storytelling with advances in visual effects, sound and digital production. He sold Lucasfilm to the Walt Disney Company in 2012.