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I always thought that Episode 5 and 6 were directed by George Lucas

EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Directed byIrvin Kershner with George Lucas as executive producer
RETURN OF THE JEDI Directed byRichard Marquand with George Lucas as executive producer.

and I didnt know that either. I wonder why? I'm sure someone here knows.

was 4 directed by him??
i know 1 and 2 are

Star Wars: A New hope was

he got a stroke during ANH, making him afraid to go to the same stress for the next two movies

he did it again for TPM again (and later AOTC) cause he wanted to press his vision on it, showing how he saw the story and not others

GL had a stroke?

when shooting ANH... it's said somewhere...

wow I had no idea..........

I think it's on the BTM cd

He made himself quite unwell.

Worth nothing, however, that GL did still do a lot oif directing work on V and VI.

Kershner was VERY good.

Kershner was BEST.
GL was good too, on ANH.
Marquand was good too.

I was watching The Empire Strikes Back yesterday and noticed that it wasn't directed by Lucas... I was about to come on and make the same thread.

Strange, but oh well. The movies haven't changed since I found that out, so it's all good.

Lucas did do a lot of direction on the key scenes. I know he personally oversaw the filming of the scenes between Luke and Vader with the Emperor

ESB was directed by Kershner and perhaps more importantlyscripted by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan (who also scripted ROTJ) from plot outlines by George

Which is why they are better. If only George had left ROTJ based on the wookie homeworld as Kasdan wanted .... ah well.

If it is going to become 'who made ESB great' then you shouldn't miss out Gary Kurtz. But we really are focussing on direction here.

Wookie homeworld was on the drawing board before Kasdan got involved, actually.