Taylor Hackford
Taylor Edwin Hackford 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 the Academy Award for Best Picture.
31 December 1944
Born on the same birth day (31 December): Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan • Bryan Hamilton • Francisco GarcĂa (basketball) • Gabby Douglas • Helen Dodson Prince • Mies Bouwman • Phill Kline • Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein • Ray Graves • Sandy Jardine • Scott Manley • Tim Stevens
Born in the same month (December 1944): Anna McGarrigle • Barry Jenkins (musician) • Don Meyer • Erhard Keller • Graham Kirkham, Baron Kirkham • Jeff Kanew • John Birt, Baron Birt • Jon Garrison • Kary Mullis • Michael Hagee • Miroslav Macek