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 (Com
🎬 Movies (19)
Lucky Strike
2026
Director
The Senior
2025
Director
The Outpost
2020
Director
Black Butterfly
2017
Executive Producer
Killing Reagan
2016
Director
A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington
2012
Self - Host
Straw Dogs
2011
Director
Nothing But the Truth
2008
Director
What Doesn't Kill You
2008
Producer
Heckler
2007
Self
Resurrecting the Champ
2007
Director
I'm Paige Wilson
2007
Director
The Angel of death
2003
Director
Scenes of the Crime
2002
Producer
The Last Castle
2001
Director
The Search for John Gissing
2001
Executive Producer
The Contender
2000
Director
Deterrence
2000
Director
Junket Whore
1998
Self
