1. Richard McCallum was born on August 22,1954 and is an American film producer known for his work on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as well as the Star Wars Special Editions and Prequel Trilogy.
13 Facts About Rick McCallum
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Rick McCallum is best known for his frequent collaborations with American filmmaker George Lucas, though he was a long-time producer for British television playwright Dennis Potter, most notably on The Singing Detective and Dreamchild.
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Rick McCallum produced the music video for the Rolling Stones' "Undercover of the Night", directed by Julien Temple.
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Rick McCallum first met George Lucas on the set of Dreamchild.
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Several years after their first meeting, Lucas was preparing his first weekly live-action television program, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, and turned to Rick McCallum to produce the ambitious series, which was to be shot in 35 countries.
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The series debuted on DVD in 2007, and Rick McCallum served alongside Lucas as a joint executive producer on a series of 94 acclaimed documentaries that accompany the episodes and illuminate the real-life history behind their stories.
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When Young Indiana Jones ended, Rick McCallum produced Radioland Murders, for which Lucas served as executive producer and the originator of the story.
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The Star Wars prequels ushered in a new era of digital filmmaking, and Rick McCallum played a leading role in its development, overseeing a team of creative and technical professionals that developed and created the industry's first all-digital production pipeline.
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Rick McCallum makes a cameo appearance in The Phantom Menace near the end of the film when Palpatine arrives on Naboo.
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Rick McCallum was one of the producers of Red Tails, an action-adventure movie on which Lucas was executive producer, that pays tribute to the spirit of World War II's Tuskegee Airmen.
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Rick McCallum had been involved with a potential live-action series set within the Star Wars universe, but the show was put on hold in 2010 due to budget concerns.
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Rick McCallum's Prague-based company, Film United, develops film projects and provides production services for Czech and European feature films.
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Rick McCallum's father, Roy Alwood McCallum, was a US military pilot.