Taylor Hackford
Highest Rated: 98% When We Were Kings (1996)
Lowest Rated: 10% Rooftops (1989)
Birthday: Dec 31, 1944
Birthplace: Santa Barbara, California, USA
An early career in television documentaries helped to shape the degree of verisimilitude that informed much of Taylor Hackford's efforts as a director and producer in Hollywood. After proving his skill with real-life subjects, he ventured into features, where he fared best with biopics - especially those based on the lives of rock 'n' roll pioneers like Ritchie Valens in "La Bamba" (1987) and Ray Charles in "Ray" (2004). "An Officer and a Gentleman" (1982) and "Against All Odds" (1984) also won many moviegoers' hearts, as did later projects like "White Nights" (1985) and "Everybody's All-American" (1988). Feature-length documentaries proved to be one of his most satisfying milieus, with "Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll" (1987) and the Muhammad Ali fight story "When We Were Kings" (1996) earning him praise from critics and viewers alike. Films like these solidified Hackford's status as a director with an uncanny knack for capturing the drama inherent in everyday lives.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50% | 99% | Becoming Iconic | Self | - | 2018 |
| 24% | 28% | The Comedian |
Director, Producer |
$1.7M | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Place to Stand | Executive Producer | - | 2014 |
| 41% | 48% | Parker |
Director, Producer |
$17.6M | 2013 |
| 12% | 28% | Love Ranch |
Director, Producer |
$134.9K | 2010 |
| 79% | 87% | Ray |
Director, Producer |
$75.3M | 2004 |
| 39% | 43% | Proof of Life |
Director, Producer |
$32.6M | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | G:MT | Producer | - | 1999 |
| 64% | 79% | The Devil's Advocate |
Director, Executive Producer |
$61.0M | 1997 |
| 98% | 94% | When We Were Kings |
Producer, Film Editing |
$2.7M | 1996 |
| 85% | 82% | Dolores Claiborne |
Director, Producer |
$22.8M | 1995 |
| 62% | 94% | Blood In, Blood Out |
Director, Producer |
$4.0M | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Defenseless | Executive Producer | $6.4M | 1991 |
| 60% | 36% | Mortal Thoughts | Executive Producer | $17.8M | 1991 |
| 30% | 35% | Queens Logic | Executive Producer | $301.6K | 1991 |
| 10% | 35% | Rooftops | Executive Producer | $1.1M | 1989 |
| 44% | 47% | Everybody's All-American | Director | $12.6M | 1988 |
| 88% | 95% | Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll | Director | $368.5K | 1987 |
| 83% | 78% | La Bamba | Producer | $52.7M | 1987 |
| 46% | 74% | White Nights | Director | $41.5M | 1985 |
| 64% | 45% | Against All Odds |
Director, Producer |
- | 1984 |
| 79% | 81% | An Officer and a Gentleman | Director | - | 1982 |
| 89% | 85% | The Idolmaker | Director | - | 1980 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 50% | 20/20 | Guest | 2018 |