# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/taylor-hackford
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:34:16.230Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/taylor-hackford"
name: "Taylor Hackford"
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description: "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, including An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), The Devil's Advocate (1997) and Ray (2004), the latter of which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture."
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1944-12-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump