Taylor Hackford, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Taylor Hackford

American film director, and president of the Directors Guild of America

Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1944

Place of Birth: Santa Barbara, California, United States

Profession: screenwriter, film director, film producer, trade unionist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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, most notably An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) and Ray (2004), the latter of which saw him nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture.