Taylor Edwin Hackford (born December 31, 1944 in Santa Barbara, CA) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for his work on films such as "An Officer and a Gentleman" (1982), "The Devil's Advocate" (1997) and "Proof of Life" (2000), and for directing Jamie Foxx to an Academy Award for Best Actor in "Ray" (2004). Hackford served as president of the Directors Guild of America from 2009 to 2013.

Filmography

• 2016The Comedian — Director, Producer
• 2015A Place to Stand — Executive Producer
• 2013Parker — Director, Producer
• 2010Love Ranch — Director, Producer
• E-Ring — Director
• 2004Ray — Director, Story, Producer
• 2000Proof of Life — Director, Producer
• 1999G:MT Greenwich Mean Time — Producer
• 1997The Devil's Advocate — Director, Executive Producer
• 1996When We Were Kings — Producer, Editor
• 1995Dolores Claiborne — Producer, Director
• 1993Bound by Honor — Director, Producer
• 1991Defenseless — Executive Producer
• 1991Mortal Thoughts — Executive Producer
• 1991Queens Logic — Executive Producer
• 1991Sweet Talker — Executive Producer
• 1990The Long Walk Home — Executive Producer
• 1989Rooftops — Executive Producer
• 1988Everybody's All-American — Director, Producer
• 1987Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll — Director
• 1987La Bamba — Producer
• 1985White Nights — Director, Producer
• 1984Against All Odds — Director, Producer
• 1982An Officer and a Gentleman — Director
• 1980The Idolmaker — Director
• 1978Teenage Father — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1973Bukowski — Director
• 1971Budd Boetticher: A Study in Self-Determination — Producer
• Sniff — Director
• The Reluctant Movie Star — Director

Appearances as themselves (17)

• 2026American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez — Self
• 2024Good Men — Self
• 2023King on Screen — Self
• 2020Melville, le dernier samouraï — Self
• 2018Becoming Iconic — Self
• 2014The Mystery of Dante — Self
• 2012Casting By — Self
• 2010Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration — Self
• 2008Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth — Self
• 2007Brando: An Icon Is Born — Himself
• 2006Pas de Deux: Making 'White Nights' — Self
• 2005Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That — Self
• Kulturplatz — Self
• 2003100 Greatest Sexy Moments — Self
• 2003Bukowski: Born Into This — Self
• 1992A Friend in New Orleans — Himself
• 1989First Works — Self