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 2,334,104 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Taylor Hackford is the 441st most popular film director (up from 501st in 2019), the 2,877th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,179th in 2019) and the 122nd most popular American Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Taylor Hackford ranks 441 out of 1,580. Before him are Joe Dante, Alexander Kluge, Veljko Bulajić, Chuck Lorre, Michel Gondry, and John Waters. After him are Lindsay Anderson, Delmer Daves, George P. Cosmatos, Olivier Assayas, Patricio Guzmán, and David Yates.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Taylor Hackford ranks 180. Before him are António Mascarenhas Monteiro, Ian Wilmut, Karen Armstrong, Luis Ladaria Ferrer, Ayad Allawi, and Adrian Smith. After him are Arnon Milchan, Christian Boltanski, Marc Ouellet, Frances de la Tour, Patrick Sercu, and Pierre Deligne.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Taylor Hackford ranks 2,877 out of 15,968. Before him are Cy Young (1867), Melissa McCarthy (1970), Harlan Coben (1962), Tom Petty (1950), Paul Castellano (1915), and Fred Niblo (1874). After him are Henry George (1839), Jackie Jackson (1951), David Stern (1942), Peter Gallagher (1955), Frederick William Franz (1893), and Nan Goldin (1953).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Taylor Hackford ranks 122. Before him are Robert Rossen (1908), Philip Kaufman (1936), John Landis (1950), Joe Dante (1946), Chuck Lorre (1952), and John Waters (1946). After him are Delmer Daves (1904), Robert Mulligan (1925), Martin Ritt (1914), Zack Snyder (1966), Nick Castle (1947), and Hal Ashby (1929).

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Filmography

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