Rod Lurie
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".
As actor 6
On the crew 23
Lucky Strike
2026
Hell on Wheels
2011
Commander in Chief
2005
The Last Castle
2001
The Outpost
2020
American Odyssey
2015
Straw Dogs
2011
Line of Fire
2003
Black Butterfly
2017
Nothing But the Truth
2008
The Contender
2000
What Doesn't Kill You
2008
Resurrecting the Champ
2007
Scenes of the Crime
2002
The Horseman
The Senior
2025
Killing Reagan
2016
Deterrence
2000
I'm Paige Wilson
2007
The Search for John Gissing
2001
Monsters of God
West Pointer
The Angel of death
2003