Rod Lurie
Born: 1962-05-15 in Israel
Known For: Directing
Biography
Rod Lurie is an Israeli-American director, screenwriter and former film critic. Lurie's first foray into filmmaking, as writer and director, was the low-budget political thriller Deterrence (1999), with Kevin Pollak as the first Jewish President of the United States. The characters (in his films) of President Jackson Evans (The Contender), prison inmate Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin (The Last Castle), FBI agent Paige Van Doren (Line of Fire), and vice presidential nominee Gen. (ret.) Warren Keaton (Commander in Chief) are all fictional graduates of the "Long Gray Line".
Filmography
2026
- Lucky Strike ... (Director)
2025
- The Senior ... (Director)
2020
- The Outpost ... (Director)
2017
- Black Butterfly ... (Executive Producer)
2016
- Killing Reagan ... (Director)
2015
- American Odyssey ... (Director)
2012
- A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington as Self - Host
2011
- Hell on Wheels ... (Director)
- Straw Dogs as Logger
2008
- What Doesn't Kill You ... (Producer)
- Nothing But the Truth as Larry
2007
- Heckler as Self
- Resurrecting the Champ as Toby Eagleburger
- I'm Paige Wilson ... (Director)
2005
- Commander in Chief ... (Director)
2003
- Line of Fire ... (Director)
- The Angel of death ... (Director)
2002
- Scenes of the Crime ... (Producer)
2001
- The Last Castle ... (Director)
- The Search for John Gissing ... (Executive Producer)
2000
- The Contender ... (Director)
- Deterrence ... (Director)
1998
- Junket Whore as Self