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Rod Lurie
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 …
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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".
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2026
Lucky Strike
Movie Director
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2025
The Senior
Movie Director
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2020
The Outpost
Movie Director
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2017
Black Butterfly
Movie Executive Producer
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2016
Killing Reagan
Movie Director
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2015
American Odyssey
TV show Director
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2012
A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington
Movie Self - Host
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2011
Hell on Wheels
TV show Director
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2011
Straw Dogs
Movie Logger
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2008
Nothing But the Truth
Movie Larry
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2008
What Doesn't Kill You
Movie Producer
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2007
Heckler
Movie Self
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2007
Resurrecting the Champ
Movie Toby Eagleburger
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2007
I'm Paige Wilson
Movie Writer
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2005
Commander in Chief
TV show Director
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2003
Line of Fire
TV show Director
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2003
The Angel of death
Movie Director
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2002
Scenes of the Crime
Movie Producer
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2001
The Search for John Gissing
Movie Executive Producer
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2001
The Last Castle
Movie Director
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2000
The Contender
Movie Director
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2000
Deterrence
Movie Director
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1998
Junket Whore
Movie Self
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The Horseman
Movie Director
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Monsters of God
Movie Director
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West Pointer
Movie Director
