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 • Baron Waqa • Konstantin Konik • Lawrence Beesley • Pope Callixtus III • Ryan Sakoda • Shandon Anderson • Tim Stevens • Valerie Pearl • William Heynes

Born in the same month (December 1944): Andris Bērziņš (Latvian President) • Erhard Keller • George Baker (Dutch singer) • Ibrahim Rugova • John Birt, Baron Birt • Ki Longfellow • Martin Hume Johnson • Mary Archer • Miroslav Macek • Ralph McTell • Ray Martin (television presenter) • Richard Leakey • Ted Irvine • Teri Garr • Wesley Clark • William Christie (musician) • William J. Fallon • Zal Yanovsky • Zheng Xiaoyu