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Lucasfilm people
- George LucasGeorge Lucas was nearly killed before he ever made a film. On the 12th of June 1962, a few days before his high school graduation in Modesto, California…
- Kathleen Kennedy (producer)Kathleen Kennedy was born on the 5th of June 1953 in Berkeley, California. Her father Donald R. Kennedy served as a judge and attorney while her mother Dione…
- John LasseterJohn Lasseter was fired from the Walt Disney Company for believing too hard in the future. The year was 1984, the project was a test film blending…
- Michelle RejwanMichelle Rejwan was born on the 8th of March 1982. She began her higher education at the University of California, Los Angeles for a single year before…
- Howard KazanjianHoward Kazanjian entered the world on the 26th of July 1942 in Los Angeles County. His father hailed from Tigranakert while his mother was born in Pasadena.
- Jonathan HalesJonathan Hales was born on the 10th of May 1937, and the production memo that best captures his career came from a producer named Rick McCallum.
- Dave FiloniDave Filoni thought he was being pranked. When a job offer arrived from George Lucas himself, Filoni assumed his colleagues at Nickelodeon were pulling a…
- Gary KurtzGary Kurtz walked onto the set of a low-budget Western in 1965 with no idea he would one day help shape two of the most profitable films ever made.
- Tim SchaferTim Schafer was born on the 26th of July, 1967, in Sonoma, California, the youngest of five children. His path to becoming one of gaming's most celebrated…
- John KortyJohn Korty is a name that rarely surfaces in lists of great American directors, yet Leonard Maltin described him as "a principled filmmaker who has worked…
- Rick McCallumRichard McCallum arrived in England during the 1980s after a commercial failure in his native United States. The film Pennies from Heaven had closed its…
- Ben BurttBen Burtt grew up in Jamesville, New York, and by the time he was a child he was already making films. His father taught chemistry at Syracuse University;…
- Lawrence KasdanLawrence Edward Kasdan was born on the 14th of January 1949 in Miami Beach, Florida. He grew up in Morgantown, West Virginia during the fifties.