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name: "John Lee Hancock"
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roles: ["Director"]
born: "15 December 1956"
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# John Lee Hancock

Director. Born 15 December 1956 in Longview, Texas, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 15 December 1956, Longview, Texas, USA
- **Also known as:** Джон Ли Хэнкок
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lee_Hancock, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1361200, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0359387/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54040

## Biography

John Lee Hancock is an American screenwriter, director and producer. Born in Longview, Texas, he studied English and law at Baylor University before practising as an attorney and later moving into film.

He wrote the screenplays for *A Perfect World* (1993) and *Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil* (1997). His directorial debut came with *The Rookie* (2002), followed by *The Alamo* (2004). He wrote and directed *The Blind Side* (2009), and has since directed *Saving Mr. Banks* (2013), *The Founder* (2016), *The Highwaymen* (2019), *The Little Things* (2021) and *Mr. Harrigan's Phone* (2022).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Blind Side* (2009), Fi1m 52, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-blind-side.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Talamasca: The Secret Order* (2025), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Creator
- *Mr. Harrigan's Phone* (2022), Writer, Director
- *The Little Things* (2021), Director, Producer, Screenplay
- *Paradise Lost* (2020), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *The Highwaymen* (2019), Director, Executive Producer
- *The Founder* (2016), Director
- *Saving Mr. Banks* (2013), Director
- *Snow White and the Huntsman* (2012), Screenplay
- *The Blind Side* (2009), Director, Writer — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/the-blind-side.md)
- *The Alamo* (2004), Director, Screenplay
- *The Rookie* (2002), Director
- *My Dog Skip* (2000), Producer
- *L.A. Doctors* (1998), series, Creator
- *Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil* (1997), Screenplay
- *A Perfect World* (1993), Writer
- *Hard Time Romance* (1991), Director, Writer
- *Monsanto*, Director, Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![John Lee Hancock](https://film.one/media/person/1250377/gallery-0dcad3cfb9f6.jpg) John Lee Hancock — Steven Baker, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/John_Hancock_and_Dog_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![John Lee Hancock](https://film.one/media/person/1250377/gallery-c521dccf9a00.jpg) John Lee Hancock — Image via TMDB

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