Rod Lurie
Directing
Born May 15, 1962 in Israel
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
Monsters of God
Lucky Strike
The Senior
The Outpost
Black Butterfly
Killing Reagan
American Odyssey
A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington
Self - Host
Hell on Wheels
Straw Dogs
Logger
Nothing but the Truth
Larry
What Doesn't Kill You
Heckler
Self
Resurrecting the Champ
Toby Eagleburger
Commander in Chief
Line of Fire
Scenes of the Crime
The Search for John Gissing
The Last Castle
The Contender
Deterrence
Junket Whore
Self