FILM DIRECTOR

Taylor Hackford

1944 - Today

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Taylor Edwin Hackford (born December 31, 1944) is an American film director and former president of the Directors Guild of America. He won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for Teenage Father (1979). Hackford went on to direct a number of highly regarded feature films, including An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), The Devil's Advocate (1997) and Ray (2004), the latter of which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Taylor Hackford is the 530th most popular film director (down from 425th in 2024), the 3,877th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,705th in 2019) and the 141st most popular American Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Taylor Hackford ranks 530 out of 2,041. Before him are Claude Goretta, Sergio Sollima, John Milius, Claude Autant-Lara, Carlo Lizzani, and Shirin Neshat. After him are Zoltán Fábri, Ariane Mnouchkine, Philip Kaufman, Shin Sang-ok, André Delvaux, and Lee Chang-dong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Taylor Hackford ranks 287. Before him are Michael Buffer, Terry Brooks, John Milius, Angela Winkler, Katsuyoshi Kuwahara, and Ignatius Joseph III Yonan. After him are Vernor Vinge, Abdul Qadir, Eddie Gómez, Peter Bieri, Robert Hanssen, and Christine Chubbuck.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Taylor Hackford ranks 3,877 out of 20,380. Before him are Sidney Wood (1911), Karl Malone (1963), J. C. R. Licklider (1915), Ashanti (1980), Mitch Pileggi (1952), and Varian Fry (1907). After him are Peter Steele (1962), Jim Beaver (1950), Anna Gunn (1968), Chaka Khan (1953), Louise Bryant (1885), and Juice Wrld (1998).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Taylor Hackford ranks 141. Before him are J. J. Abrams (1966), Clarence Brown (1890), Richard Thorpe (1896), Don Bluth (1937), Gerard Damiano (1928), and John Milius (1944). After him are Philip Kaufman (1936), Delmer Daves (1904), Gene Deitch (1924), Martin Brest (1951), James Mangold (1963), and Michael Ritchie (1938).

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