Person
Rod Lurie
Directing · Born 1962-05-15 · 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
Hell on Wheels
Director
Commander in Chief
Director
The Outpost
Director
Junket Whore
Self
The Last Castle
Director
Black Butterfly
Executive Producer
American Odyssey
Director
Lucky Strike
Director
Straw Dogs
Logger
Line of Fire
Director
Filmography
- 2026Lucky StrikeDirector
- 2025The SeniorDirector
- 2020The OutpostDirector
- 2017Black ButterflyExecutive Producer
- 2016Killing ReaganDirector
- 2015American OdysseyDirector
- 2012A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to WashingtonSelf - Host
- 2011Hell on WheelsDirector
- 2011Straw DogsLogger
- 2008Nothing but the TruthLarry
- 2008What Doesn't Kill YouProducer
- 2007HecklerSelf
- 2007Resurrecting the ChampToby Eagleburger
- 2007I'm Paige WilsonDirector
- 2005Commander in ChiefDirector
- 2003Line of FireDirector
- 2003The Angel of deathDirector
- 2002Scenes of the CrimeProducer
- 2001The Search for John GissingExecutive Producer
- 2001The Last CastleDirector
- 2000The ContenderDirector
- 2000DeterrenceDirector
- 1998Junket WhoreSelf
- —West PointerWriter
- —Monsters of GodDirector
- —The HorsemanDirector
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