Rod Lurie

Director

Born: May 15, 1962 (63 years old)

Place of birth: 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".

Filmography (18)

• Nothing But the Truth (2008, ★ 7)
• The Last Castle (2001, ★ 7.2)
• Commander in Chief (2005, ★ 7.6)
• Hell on Wheels (2011, ★ 7.6)
• Heckler (2007, ★ 5.9)
• Resurrecting the Champ (2007, ★ 6.3)
• Straw Dogs (2011, ★ 5.9)
• The Contender (2000, ★ 6.7)
• What Doesn't Kill You (2008, ★ 6)
• Killing Reagan (2016, ★ 6.5)
• Deterrence (2000, ★ 6.1)
• Black Butterfly (2017, ★ 6.2)
• The Senior (2025, ★ 6.9)
• The Outpost (2020, ★ 6.9)
• American Odyssey (2015, ★ 7.1)
• Scenes of the Crime (2002, ★ 5.4)
• Line of Fire (2003, ★ 6)
• The Search for John Gissing (2001, ★ 4.5)