
George Tillman Jr.
Highest Rated: 97% The Hate U Give (2018)
Lowest Rated: 31% The Longest Ride (2015)
Birthday: Jan 26, 1969
Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Listing Martin Scorsese, Gordon Parks and Spike Lee as influences, writer-director George Tillman Jr made short, experimental video projects as a Milwaukee teenager before creating a public access cable show "Splice of Life," using local talent. He established himself as a filmmaker of original vision with an award-winning 30-minute short "Paula," which followed the story of a 17-year-old single black mother who works in a diner and inspires the people around her. Bolstered by that success, Tillman wrote and directed the feature "Scenes for the Soul," financing it with $150,000 he and producer Robert Teitel raised through a group of Chicago investors. When he and Teitel drove to Los Angeles, they sold the film to Savoy Pictures for $1 million, though Savoy's subsequent bankruptcy prevented its release. (It was subsequently sold to HBO.) Inspired by the Sunday dinners prepared by his grandmother, Tillman wrote a script that Tracey E Edmonds and her husband Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds felt would be the perfect choice for their new production company's feature debut. The result, "Soul Food" (1997), was the kind of feel good, family story that doesn't get made often in Hollywood and proved to be a sleeper hit.
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Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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97% | 83% | The Hate U Give |
Director, Producer |
$29.6M | 2018 |
90% | 66% | Barbershop: The Next Cut | Producer | $54M | 2016 |
31% | 71% | The Longest Ride | Director | $37.4M | 2015 |
84% | 88% | The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete | Director | $487.3K | 2013 |
42% | 52% | Faster | Director | $23.2M | 2010 |
52% | 65% | Notorious | Director | $36.8M | 2009 |
54% | 42% | Nothing Like the Holidays | Producer | $7.5M | 2008 |
38% | 62% | Beauty Shop | Producer | $36.3M | 2005 |
65% | 70% | Roll Bounce | Producer | $17.4M | 2005 |
68% | 48% | Barbershop 2: Back in Business | Producer | $65M | 2004 |
83% | 62% | Barbershop | Producer | $75.1M | 2002 |
42% | 81% | Men of Honor | Director | $48.8M | 2000 |
81% | 86% | Soul Food |
Director, Writer |
$43.5M | 1997 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | 69% | For Life |
Executive Producer, Director |
2020 |
93% | 74% | This Is Us | Director | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last Call With Carson Daly | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sister Circle | Guest | 2018 |
81% | 82% | Power | Director | 2016 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Made in Hollywood: Teen Edition | Guest | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Soul Food | Executive Producer | 2000-2004 |
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