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George Lucas: Biography
Lucas was born in Modesto, California. His father George Walton Lucas, Sr., ran a stationery store. Lucas attended Downey High School, and he was interested in racecar driving. He dreamed to become a professional racecar driver. However, a terrible automobile accident abruptly ended that dream, changing his views on life. During the 1960s, Lucas studied cinema in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, one of the earliest universities to have a school devoted to film. There he made a number of short films, including an early version of THX1138, later to become his first full-length feature film.
After graduating, he co-founded the studio American Zoetrope with
Francis Ford Coppola, hoping to create a liberating environment for filmmakers to direct in 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
and Star Wars, Lucas was able to set up his own studio, Lucasfilm, in Marin County in his native northern California. Skywalker Sound and Industrial Light and Magic, respectively the sound and visual effects subdivisions of Lucasfilm, have become among the most respected firms in their fields. Lucasfilm Games, later renamed to LucasArts, is highly regarded in the computer games industry.
Lucas was fined by the Directors Guild of America for refusing to have a standard title sequence in his
Star Wars films. After paying the fine, Lucas quit the guild.
On October 3, 1994 Lucas started to write the three
Star Wars prequels and on that November 1 he left the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business and started a sabbatical to finish the prequels.
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