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David Ayer
Champaign, Illinois, USA
David Ayer (born January 18, 1968) is an American filmmaker known for making crime films that are set in Los Angeles and deal with gangs and police corruption. His screenplays inc…
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David Ayer (born January 18, 1968) is an American filmmaker known for making crime films that are set in Los Angeles and deal with gangs and police corruption. His screenplays include Training Day (2001), The Fast and the Furious (2001), and S.W.A.T. (2003). He has also directed Harsh Times (2005), Street Kings (2008), End of Watch (2012), Sabotage (2014), and The Beekeeper (2024). In 2016, he directed the superhero movie Suicide Squad from the DC Extended Universe and then the urban fantasy film Bright (2017) for Netflix. He has twice collaborated with actor Shia LaBeouf: first with the World War II drama Fury (2014), then the crime thriller The Tax Collector (2020). He has also collaborated with his friend Cle Shaheed Sloan, who has appeared in four of his films. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Ayer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movies and shows, newest first
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2028
John Doe
Movie Director
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2026
Heart of the Beast
Movie Producer
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2025
A Working Man
Movie Director
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2024
Bosco
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
The Beekeeper
Movie Director
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2023
Snorkeling
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
The Suicide Squad
Movie Thanks
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2020
Joker: Put on a Happy Face
Movie Self
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2020
The Tax Collector
Movie Screenplay
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2020
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Movie Executive Producer
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2020
Deputy
TV show Executive Producer
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2019
Ready for War
Movie Executive Producer
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2017
Bright
Movie Director
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2017
Training Day
TV show Screenplay
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2016
Suicide Squad
Movie Writer
- 2016
More credits
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2014
Fury
Movie Director
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2014
Sabotage
Movie Director
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2012
End of Watch
Movie Director
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2008
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
Movie Self
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2008
A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
Movie Self
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2008
The Business End: Violence in Cinema
Movie Self
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2008
The Craft of Dirty Harry
Movie Self
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2008
The Evolution of Clint Eastwood
Movie Self
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2008
Street Kings
Movie NLR member in County Jail (uncredited)
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2005
Harsh Times
Movie Producer
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2004
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Movie Production Consultant
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2003
S.W.A.T.
Movie Screenplay
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2002
Dark Blue
Movie Screenplay
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2001
Training Day
Movie First Russian Hitman (uncredited)
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2001
The Fast and the Furious
Movie Screenplay
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2000
U-571
Movie Screenplay
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Six Years
Movie Director
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The Dirty Dozen
Movie Director
