George Lucas founded a company.
George Lucas . Upon graduating from the University of Southern California in 1967 , Lucas co-founded American Zoetrope with fellow filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola . Lucas also produced and wrote a variety of films through Lucasfilm in the 1980s and 1990s . Lucasfilm . LLC is an American film and television production company based in the Letterman Digital Arts Center in San Francisco , California . Lucasfilm was founded by filmmaker George Lucas in 1971 in San Rafael , California ; most of the company 's operations were moved to San Francisco in 2005 .