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Apr 20, 2022 · Helen Mirren and husband Taylor Hackford are mourning the loss of his son, Rio Hackford, who died April 14 at age 51. Last week, Alex Hackford told Variety that his brother died in...
Feb 16, 2024 · Taylor Hackford recalled in an interview with PEOPLE at the 37th Annual American Cinematheque Awards an 'instant passion' when he met wife Helen Mirren.
Apr 19, 2022 · Helen Mirren and husband Taylor Hackford are speaking out for the first time following the death of Taylor's son and Mirren's stepson, Rio Hackford.
- He Went to USC
- He Is An Award-Winning Director
- He's Shot Multiple Music Videos
- He Has Two Sons from Previous Marriages
- He dated Mirren For A Decade Before Getting Married
- He's Very Supportive of Mirren's Acting Career
Hackford grew up in Santa Barbara, California, and attended the University of Southern California but did not study film, despite becoming a successful director. Instead, he studied international relations and went to the Peace Corps. He also went to law school for two weeks and eventually got a job in the mail room at a public television station i...
Hackford has directed and produced many films. In 1979, he won the Academy Award for Best Live-Action Film for Teenage Father. His second film, An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), which starred Richard Gere and Debra Winger, garnered five Academy Award nominations. His other films include Against All Odds (1984), Blood In, Blood Out (1993), Dolores ...
Hackford has directed award-winning movies, but that's not all. He's also directed multiple music videos for Lionel Richie and Phil Collins. "In documentaries as in any film project, I want to tell a story, and part of the story here is understanding what the performer is saying, whether it's a vocal or a guitar solo," he told the Director's Guild ...
The director welcomed his first son, Rio Hackford, with his first wife Georgie Lowres. After splitting from Loewres in 1972, he went on to wed Lynne Litman, with whom he shares son Alexander Hackford. Hackford's elder son Rio starred in a variety of TV shows and movies including Pretty Woman, The Mandalorian, Treme, American Crime Story, Fred Claus...
Mirren and Hackford were together for 11 years before they got married in 1997 in Scotland. "I did very consciously choose my work over my relationships right up to the time that I met Taylor. I was 38 when I met Taylor, pretty late in life," Mirren told AARPin 2016. "We got married in the end because we realized that we were going to be together f...
Hackford has joined his wife of over 20 years on dozens of red carpets. He accompanied her to the 1999 Emmys, where Mirren won outstanding lead actress in a limited series for her role in The Passion of Ayn Rand. He was also present at the 2007 Academy Awards when she won Best Actress for her role in The Queen. In 2010, the pair hit the red carpet ...
Oct 15, 2023 · A quarter-century after his short film win, Hackford finally caught the Academy’s attention again with “Ray,” a handsomely gilded Ray Charles biopic that earned him his only Best Director ...
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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).
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Mar 29, 2024 · On the passing yesterday of actor Louis Gossett Jr., An Officer and A Gentleman director Taylor Hackford and Roots co-star LeVar Burton remembered their late colleague and friend.
