Watch the TAYLOR HACKFORD - RAY - Interview. Born in a poor town in Georgia, Ray Charles (Jamie Foxx) went blind at the age of seven shortly after ...

In true, legendary Hollywood fashion, the making of director Taylor Hackford's biopic Ray was an often tumultuous journey that incredibly took more than 15 years to come to fruition. That Hackford ...

Taylor Hackford is a veteran Hollywood filmmaker, but to get the life story of Ray Charles to the screen he had to schlep as hard as any young wannabe. The director of “Ray” came to the area ...

Helen Mirren adores her husband, director Taylor Hackford, but she likes to keep their professional lives separate — even ...

Hackford adds the “kind of” qualifier because the version of “Ray” one can see on DVD (Universal, 2004, 153 minutes, PG-13, $29.98) still had to adhere to the rules of an initial compromise.