Rod Lurie

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1962-05-15 (63 years old)

Place of Birth

Israel

Rod Lurie

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".

Acting

2007

Heckler

as Self

2007

Resurrecting the Champ

as Toby Eagleburger

1998

2011

Straw Dogs

as Logger

Production

2001

The Last Castle

as Director

2000

The Contender

as Director

2007

2008

2008

2011

Straw Dogs

as Director

2011

Straw Dogs

as Screenplay

2008

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West Pointer

as Director

-

West Pointer

as Writer

-

West Pointer

as Producer

2003

2007

2016

Killing Reagan

as Director

2000

Deterrence

as Director

2000

Deterrence

as Writer

2017

Black Butterfly

as Executive Producer

2001

The Search for John Gissing

as Executive Producer

2025

The Senior

as Director

2020

The Outpost

as Director

2008

2000

The Contender

as Writer

2002

2007

I'm Paige Wilson

as Director

2007

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Monsters of God

as Director

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