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Alan Taylor (born January 13, 1959) is an American television director, film director, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known for his work on television series such as The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Mad Men, and Game of Thrones. He also directed films such as Palookaville, Thor: The Dark World, Terminator Genisys, and The Many Saints of Newark. In 2007, Taylor won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for The Sopranos episode "Kennedy and Heidi." In 2008 and 2018, he was also nominated in the same category for the Mad Men episode "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and the Game of Thrones episode "Beyond the Wall," respectively. Taylor's father, James J. Taylor, was a private in the U.S. Army translating for Voice of America, stationed in Yokohama, who subsequently held numerous jobs before becoming a videographer in Washington, D.C. Taylor's mother, Mimi Cazort, was curator emerita for the National Gallery of Canada. His sister is the indie rock musician Anna Domino. He spent part of his life in Manor Park, Ottawa, Canada, and attended Manor Park Public School and Lisgar Collegiate Institute high school. As part of the Communications Club at Lisgar, he acted in its production of The Mouse That Roared. He went on to major in history at the University of Toronto and then at New York City's Columbia University before transferring to New York University in his late 20s to study film under instructors including director Martin Scorsese. Taylor has directed for numerous programs on both network television and premium cable, most often on HBO. Taylor's early work on television includes work on The Sopranos, Sex and the City, and The West Wing. Taylor joined the crew of the HBO western drama Deadwood as a director for the first season in 2004. Taylor directed the pilot episodes of Mad Men ("Smoke Gets in Your Eyes") and Bored to Death, as well as subsequent episodes of each. He joined the HBO series Game of Thrones, directing seven episodes, including the critically acclaimed season 1 episode "Baelor." He worked on a television adaptation of the Strugatsky brothers' 1971 science fiction novel Roadside Picnic for the WGN America network. Besides his television work, Taylor's early films include Palookaville, The Emperor's New Clothes, and Kill the Poor. In the 2010s, Taylor began working on large-budget blockbuster films. He was hired to direct Thor: The Dark World (2013), a superhero film and sequel to 2011's Thor. He was approached by Marvel producer Kevin Feige following director Patty Jenkins's exit from the project and hoped he would inject a darker tone into the project after seeing Taylor's work on Game of Thrones. Taylor's next film was Terminator Genisys, a film that Taylor hoped to fix following his reading of the script, citing his love of the first two Terminator films. After directing nine episodes for the HBO series The Sopranos, Taylor was approached by show creator David Chase to return to direct the 2021 prequel film The Many Saints of Newark. In August 2022, it was announced that Taylor was hired to direct multiple episodes of the second season of House of the Dragon. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Taylor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1965-01-01
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- school Known for: Directing
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The Making of ‘Mad Men’
2007-06-03

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Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
2014-03-18

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The Art of Television: les réalisateurs de séries
2018-03-15

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Talking Sopranos
2020-04-07
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Kill the Poor
2003-05-09

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Palookaville
1995-09-07

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The Emperor's New Clothes
2001-08-11

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Thor: The Dark World
2013-10-30

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Terminator Genisys
2015-06-23

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That Burning Question
1991-07-24

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That Burning Question
1991-07-24

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The Emperor's New Clothes
2001-08-11

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The Many Saints of Newark
2021-09-22
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1%
2008-12-31

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Carnivàle
2003-09-14

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Oz
1997-07-12

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The West Wing
1999-09-22

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Mad Men
2007-07-19

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The Sopranos
1999-01-10

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Game of Thrones
2011-04-17

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Deadwood
2004-03-21

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Traders
1996-02-01

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Homicide: Life on the Street
1993-01-31

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Boardwalk Empire
2010-09-19

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Lost
2004-09-22

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The Playboy Club
2011-09-19

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Nurse Jackie
2009-06-08

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Rubicon
2010-06-13

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Bored to Death
2009-09-20

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In Treatment
2008-01-28

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Now and Again
1999-09-24

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Big Love
2006-03-12

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Keen Eddie
2003-06-03

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Law & Order
1990-09-13

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Six Feet Under
2001-06-03

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Rome
2005-08-28

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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2017-09-17

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Game of Thrones
2011-04-17

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Interview with the Vampire
2022-10-02

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Interview with the Vampire
2022-10-02
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Roadside Picnic

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The Crowded Room
2023-06-08

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BLUE EYE SAMURAI
2023-11-03

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Interview with the Vampire
2022-10-02

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House of the Dragon
2022-08-21

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House of the Dragon
2022-08-21

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Sex and the City
1998-06-06