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Rod Lurie

Director, Actor, Producer, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn May 15, 1962 (62 years)
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".
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Nothing But the Truth
  • The Contender
  • Resurrecting the Champ
  • What Doesn't Kill You
Known For
  • The Last Castle
  • Nothing But the Truth
  • Straw Dogs
  • The Contender
  • The Outpost
  • Resurrecting the Champ
  • Hell on Wheels
  • American Odyssey
  • Damnation
  • What Doesn't Kill You
  • Deterrence
  • Killing Reagan
  • Commander In Chief
  • Scenes of the Crime
  • Louder Than Words
  • Line of Fire
  • The Search for John Gissing

Filmography

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