Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
January 26, 1969 (57 years old)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
George Tillman Jr.
Biography
George Tillman Jr. (born January 26, 1969) is an American film director and producer. He attended John Marshall High School in Milwaukee, where he took Mass Communications magnet classes. He graduated from Columbia College in Chicago in 1991 with a major in Film and Video.
Tillman is most notable for directing the films Soul Food (1997) and Men of Honor (2000). He is also the producer of the Soul Food: The Series on television and the three films in the Barbershop series: Barbershop, Barbershop 2: Back in Business, and Beauty Shop. He also directed the 2009 biopic Notorious about the New York-born rapper Notorious B.I.G.
Known For
Directing
Big George Foreman
Director, Screenplay, Screenstory
2023
The Crossover
Director
2023
On the Come Up
Producer
2022
For Life
Director, Executive Producer
2020
The Hate U Give
Director, Producer
2018
Marvel's Luke Cage
Director
2016
This Is Us
Director
2016
Barbershop: The Next Cut
Producer
2016
The Longest Ride
Director
2015
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
Director, Producer
2013
Faster
Director
2010
Notorious
Director
2009