Rod Lurie
- Directing
- May 15, 1962 · Israel
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".
Known for
Filmography
- Lucky Strike · Director, Writer
- The Senior · Director
- The Outpost · Director
- Black Butterfly · Executive producer
- Killing Reagan · Director
- American Odyssey · Director
- A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington · Self
- Hell on Wheels · Director
- Straw Dogs · Logger, Director
- Nothing But the Truth · Larry, Director
- What Doesn't Kill You · Producer
- Heckler · Self
- Resurrecting the Champ · Toby Eagleburger, Director
- I'm Paige Wilson · Director, Writer
- Commander in Chief · Director, Executive producer
- Line of Fire · Director, Executive producer
- The Angel of death · Director
- Scenes of the Crime · Producer
- The Search for John Gissing · Executive producer
- The Last Castle · Director
- The Contender · Director, Writer
- Deterrence · Director, Writer
- Junket Whore · Self
- West Pointer · Director, Writer
- Monsters of God · Director, Writer
- The Horseman · Director, Writer