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George Tillman Jr.

Director, Producer, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn January 26, 1969 (56 years)
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

  • Men of Honor
  • Faster
  • Notorious
  • The Longest Ride
  • Barbershop
  • This Is Us
  • Soul Food
  • Power
  • Marvel's Luke Cage
  • The Hate U Give
  • Big George Foreman
  • The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
  • For Life
  • Roll Bounce
  • Barbershop: The Next Cut
  • Beauty Shop
  • Barbershop 2: Back in Business
  • Nothing Like the Holidays
  • The Crossover
  • On the Come Up
  • Barbershop

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