George Tillman Jr.
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George Tillman Jr.

Born 26 January 1969 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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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

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