Rod Lurie
Known for: Directing
Born: May 15, 1962
Place of birth: 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".
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Filmography
22 movies · 4 TV shows, newest first
7.0
Lucky Strike
2026
6.7
The Senior
2025
6.9
The Outpost
2020
6.2
Black Butterfly
2017
6.5
Killing Reagan
2016
7.1
American Odyssey
2015
7.0
A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington
2012
7.6
Hell on Wheels
2011
5.9
Straw Dogs
2011
6.9
Nothing but the Truth
2008
6.0
What Doesn't Kill You
2008
5.9
Heckler
2007
6.3
Resurrecting the Champ
20072.0
I'm Paige Wilson
2007
7.5
Commander in Chief
2005
6.3
Line of Fire
2003NR
The Angel of death
2003
5.5
Scenes of the Crime
2002
4.9
The Search for John Gissing
2001
7.2
The Last Castle
2001
6.7
The Contender
2000
6.1
Deterrence
2000
5.5
Junket Whore
1998NR
West Pointer
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5.0
Monsters of God
—NR
The Horseman
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