George Lucas

George Lucas was born in 1944 in Modesto, California, where his father ran a stationery shop. He spent his adolescence on racetracks, determined to race, until a car accident that nearly killed him in June 1962, three days before the end of high school. He studied anthropology and sociology at his local college, then at the film school of the University of Southern California, which he left in 1967. He founded his production company in 1971 and a special-effects workshop in 1975, accepted a reduced fee in exchange for the merchandising rights, sold the whole to a major studio in 2012 and founded a museum in Los Angeles.

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• CinemaStar WarsGeorge Lucas · 1977Cinema