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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Taylor Hackford has received more than 3,319,531 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Taylor Hackford is the 425th most popular film director (up from 502nd in 2019), the 2,705th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,223rd in 2019) and the 111th most popular American Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Taylor Hackford ranks 425 out of 2,041. Before him are Claude Zidi, Bong Joon-ho, Lo Wei, Édouard Molinaro, Richard Brooks, and Michael Anderson. After him are Jean Eustache, Chuck Lorre, Ladislao Vajda, Oskar Fischinger, Maurice Pialat, and David Yates.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Taylor Hackford ranks 209. Before him are Terry Brooks, G. W. Bailey, Thongsing Thammavong, Christian de Portzamparc, Patrick Sercu, and Nelson Freire. After him are Ronald Lauder, Tom Okker, Brian Weiss, Ram Chandra Poudel, Peter Lindbergh, and David Trimble.

Others Born in 1944

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Taylor Hackford ranks 2,705 out of 20,380. Before him are William Heard Kilpatrick (1871), Jason Newsted (1963), Sylvia Sidney (1910), James Taylor (1948), Richard Brooks (1912), and Annie Oakley (1860). After him are Mickey Cohen (1913), Elgin Baylor (1934), Maurice White (1941), William Joyce (1906), Jef Raskin (1943), and Jim Kelly (1946).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Taylor Hackford ranks 111. Before him are Gene Deitch (1924), James L. Brooks (1940), Russ Meyer (1922), J. J. Abrams (1966), Merian C. Cooper (1893), and Richard Brooks (1912). After him are Chuck Lorre (1952), Walter Lantz (1899), Delmer Daves (1904), Don Bluth (1937), William A. Wellman (1896), and Nick Castle (1947).

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