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George Lucas

Filmmaker; creator of Star Wars and founder of Lucasfilm

United States · b. 1944

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American filmmaker who wrote and directed American Graffiti and Star Wars, created the Indiana Jones films with Steven Spielberg, and founded Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic.

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Question Which writers or artists most influenced your work? Taste & recommendation read 41 other answers →
I liked all the normal kinds of adventure books, Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Huck Finn sorts of things. I loved Swiss Family Robinson and that whole period of South Sea adventure movies. I liked westerns. Westerns were very big when I was growing up. When we finally got a television there was a whole run of westerns on television. John Wayne films, directed by John Ford, before I knew who John Ford was. I think those were very influential in my enjoyment of movies.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Washington, D.C., 19 June 1999 source ↗

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