Jonathan Hales was the co-screenwriter with director George Lucas of Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones.

Hales graduated from Cambridge University, and received a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Texas, where he taught in the English department and gained a Ph.D.

He returned to England and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, spending two years in Stratford-on-Avon and London. Hales also directed theater productions, staging more than forty plays and operas in London's West End and at leading regional theaters in England.

Although Hales has been busy as both an actor and director, Star Wars fans likely know him best for his screen writing ability. Before writing Attack of the Clones with George Lucas, Hales worked with the director as one of the writers for the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

Hales also wrote the films The Scorpion King, Death on the Nile, The Mirror Cracked, and Loophole. Five of Hale's theater plays have been produced, and he has written many television screenplays for the BBC, London Weekend, Thames TV, Granada, Yorkshire TV, and Gaumont. A short list of Hales' numerous television screenplays includes episodes of Dallas, Van der Valk, Dempsey & Makepeace, and Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime.