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George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an American film producer, director, screenwriter, and entrepreneur. He was the founder, chairman, and CEO 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, both involving Harrison Ford.

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 box office failure. He decided to take matters into his own hands and started his own company called Lucasfilm Ltd. His first work as a writer-director under this new banner was the film American Graffiti, a look at teenage cruising in the early 1960s, which was a critical and commercial success and received five Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture.

His other film contributions include Willow, Labyrinth, Howard the Duck, The Land Before Time, Red Tails, and Strange Magic.

Lucas is one of the US film industry's most financially successful directors and producers, with an estimated net worth of $4.1 billion as of 2012.

He was named a Disney Legend in 2015.

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