Michael Taylor is a film producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

 and also the chairman of the Division of Film and Television Production at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.

Taylor is a producer of theatrical and television films. He began his career as a Motion Picture Executive at United Artists Corporation, and served as UA’s European Head of Production based in London

London

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. Among other honors, he is the recipient of the Fourteenth Annual Genesis Award for Outstanding Feature Film, the National Board of Review Award for Top Independent Film, The Variety/EDI $100 Million Award, and is a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Filmography

• Copying Beethoven (2006)
• The Commuters (2005) (TV)
• Phenomenon II (2003) (TV)
• Princess of Thieves
  Princess of Thieves
  Princess of Thieves is a romantic action-adventure TV movie starring Keira Knightley, produced by Granada Productions in 2001 and first broadcast on The Wonderful World of Disney on ABC in the United States that same year...
  
   (2001) (TV)
• Instinct
  Instinct
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   (1999)
• The Hi-Line (1999)
• Phenomenon
  Phenomenon
  A phenomenon , plural phenomena, is any observable occurrence. Phenomena are often, but not always, understood as 'appearances' or 'experiences'...
  
   (1996)
• Bottle Rocket
  Bottle Rocket
  Bottle Rocket is a 1996 comedy film directed by Wes Anderson. It was co-written by Anderson and Owen Wilson. As well as being Wes Anderson's directorial debut, Bottle Rocket was the debut feature for brothers Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson, who co-starred with James Caan and Robert Musgrave.The film...
  
   (1996)
• Mrs. Munck (1995)
• Hider in the House
  Hider in the House
  Hider in the House was a British children's game show presented by Jason King and Joel Ross . In the programme, a celebrity had to be hidden in a family's house by three children and a parent. If the family have fewer than three children, they use friends or related children to make up the numbers...
  
   (1989)
• The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)
• Last Embrace
  Last Embrace
  Last Embrace is a 1979 thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme. Based on the novel The 13th Man by Murray Teigh Bloom, it stars Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin and Christopher Walken.-Plot summary:...
  
   (1979)

Trivia

• In a workshop held in Vietnam
  Vietnam
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  , he was given a Vietnamese name by his students: "May" (which means "Lucky").