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".
Filmography14 titles
Hell on Wheels
Commander in Chief
The Last Castle
American Odyssey
Nothing But the Truth
The Outpost
The Senior
The Contender
Resurrecting the Champ
Black Butterfly
What Doesn't Kill You
Straw Dogs
Heckler
Scenes of the Crime