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".
Directed 15
2020s
- 2026
- 2025
The Senior
Director
- 2020
2010s
- 2016
Killing Reagan
Director
- 2015
American Odyssey
Director
- 2011
2000s
- 2008
- 2007
- 2005
- 2003
- 2001
- 2000
Deterrence
Director
No release date
Monsters of God
Director
Produced 9
2020s
- 2026
2010s
- 2017
2000s
- 2008
- 2007
- 2005
- 2003
- 2002
- 2001
The Search for John Gissing
Executive Producer
Wrote 8
2020s
- 2026
2010s
- 2011
2000s
- 2008
- 2005
- 2003
- 2000
Deterrence
Writer
No release date
Monsters of God
Writer
Acted in 3
2010s
- 2011
2000s
- 2008
- 2007
Created 2
2000s
- 2005
- 2003
Appearances3
2010s
- 2012
A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington
Self - Host
2000s
- 2007
1990s
- 1998
