Brigham Taylor: Mormon Producer
Brigham Taylor is an executive with the Walt Disney Company, currently Executive Vice President of Creative Development and Production. He produced Disney’s 2016 The Jungle Book, 2015 Tomorrowland, and the Pirates of the Caribbean series. he was a production executive for Million Dollar Arm (2014), Tron: Legacy (2010), Secretariat (2010), The Game Plan (2007), Bridge to Terabithia (2007), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), and Hidalgo (2004), to name a few.
Taylor was born in 1967 in Palo Alto, California. He earned his bachelor’s degree in humanities from Brigham Young University. As a student, he first majored in graphic design and was the third production assistant on a student film, Edges. He joined the Disney company in 1994 as an assistant to a junior executive and rose through the ranks of the studio.
He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served as a full-time missionary in Tallahassee, Florida. He and his wife, Michelle, are the parents of four children.