Rod Lurie

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1962-05-15 (62 years old)

Place of Birth Israel

Also Known As Rob Lurie, רוד לוריא

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".

Known For

Director

West Pointer

as Director

2025
The Senior

as Director

2020
The Outpost

as Director

2016
Killing Reagan

as Director

2015
American Odyssey

as Director

2011
Straw Dogs

as Director

2011
Hell on Wheels

as Director

2008
2007
2007
I'm Paige Wilson

as Director

2005
Commander in Chief

as Director

2003
The Angel of death

as Director

2003
Line of Fire

as Director

2001
The Last Castle

as Director

2000
The Contender

as Director

2000
Deterrence

as Director

Producer

West Pointer

as Producer

2017
Black Butterfly

as Executive Producer

2008
2008
2007
2005
Commander in Chief

as Executive Producer

2003
Line of Fire

as Executive Producer

2002
2001
The Search for John Gissing

as Executive Producer

Writer

West Pointer

as Writer

2011
Straw Dogs

as Screenplay

2008
Nothing But the Truth

as Screenplay

2007
2005
2003
Line of Fire

as Writer

2000
Deterrence

as Writer

2000
The Contender

as Writer

Actor

2011
Straw Dogs

as Logger

2007
Heckler

as Self

2007
Resurrecting the Champ

as Toby Eagleburger

1998
Junket Whore

as Self

Creator

2005
2003
Line of Fire

as Creator