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John Lee Hancock, Jr. (born December 15, 1956) is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is best known for directing the sports drama films The Rookie and The Blind Side. Born in Longview, Texas, Hancock grew up in Texas City. His father is John Lee Hancock Sr., who played football for Baylor University and was a football coach at Texas City High School. John Jr. is the eldest of four children, and played football in high school. He is a graduate of Baylor University and Baylor Law School. He worked in a Houston law firm for four years, then decided to pursue... MORE

John Lee Hancock, Jr. (born December 15, 1956) is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is best known for directing the sports drama films The Rookie and The Blind Side. Born in Longview, Texas, Hancock grew up in Texas City. His father is John Lee Hancock Sr., who played football for Baylor University and was a football coach at Texas City High School. John Jr. is the eldest of four children, and played football in high school. He is a graduate of Baylor University and Baylor Law School. He worked in a Houston law firm for four years, then decided to pursue screenwriting and moved to Los Angeles. Hancock's debut as a screenwriter and director came in 1991 with Hard Time Romance. He worked on two more films as a screenwriter with A Perfect World and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil before making his first directing effort since 1991 in 2002 with the sports drama The Rookie, which was a success both critically and commercially. In 2004, he wrote and directed The Alamo, which was highly unsuccessful at the box office, and would become the second-highest box office bomb in movie history. Five years later, he made the Academy Award-winning The Blind Side, LESS