George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an American film producer, screenwriter, director, and entrepreneur. He was the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Lucasfilm Ltd. before selling the company to the Walt Disney Company on October 30, 2012. He is best known as the creator of the space opera franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist character Indiana Jones in the franchise of the same name.
After graduating from the University of Southern California in 1967, Lucas co-founded American Zoetrope with fellow filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Lucas wrote and directed THX 1138, which was a critical success, but a financial failure. He decided to take matters into his own hands and started his own company; Lucasfilm Ltd. His first work as a writer-director under this new banner was the film, American Graffiti, which was critically and commercially successful and received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.
Lucas is one of the American film industry's most financially successful directors and producers, with an estimated net worth of $4.1 billion as of 2012.
According to the 2021, Disney+ series Behind the Attraction he visited Disneyland on its second day open rather than the grand opening as previously reported.
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