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Rob Cohen

Highest Rated: 87% The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976)

Lowest Rated: 9% The Skulls (2000)

Birthday: Mar 12, 1949

Birthplace: Cornwall, New York, USA

This busy producer-director of film and TV became one of Hollywood's "baby moguls" of the 1970s. At age 24, Cohen headed up the motion picture producing arm of Motown Records, overseeing some notable and/or popular black-oriented films: "Mahogany" (1975), "The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings" (1976), "Scott Joplin: King of Ragtime" (1977), "Thank God It's Friday" and Sidney Lumet's notorious "The Wiz" (both 1978). At age 28, he formed his own production company and set to work on his directorial debut, "A Small Circle of Friends" (1980), a nostalgic comedy set at Harvard (Cohen's alma mater) in the 60s, starring Brad Davis and Karen Allen and more than inspired by Francois Truffaut's superior "Jules et Jim" (1962). Cohen followed with "Scandalous" (1984), a farce starring Robert Hays and John Gielgud. He also executive produced the high-minded remake of "The Razor's Edge" (1984), starring a miscast Bill Murray, and produced the teen drama "The Legend of Billy Jean" (1985).

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87% 65% The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings
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75% 53% The Hard Way
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74% 79% Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
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57% 58% The Rat Pack
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Rob Cohen

Rob Cohen XXX, Director Rob Cohen on the set, 2002, (c) Columbia THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS, director Rob Cohen, on set, 2001. © Universal/ THE SKULLS, foreground: Joshua Jackson, director Rob Cohen, cinematographer Shane Hurlbut, on set, 2000. (c)Universal ALEX CROSS, director Rob Cohen, on set, 2012. ph: Sidney Baldwin/©Summit Entertainment STEALTH, Josh Lucas, director Rob Cohen on set, 2005, © Columbia Pictures / DRAGONHEART, director Rob Cohen on set, 1996, © Universal STEALTH, director Rob Cohen, Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel (far right) on set, 2005, © Columbia Pictures / STEALTH, director Rob Cohen on set, 2005, © Columbia Pictures / STEALTH, Jessica Biel, director Rob Cohen on set, 2005, © Columbia Pictures / View more photos

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The Hurricane Heist 47% 23% 2018 Director, Producer A Classy Broad 2016 Self The Boy Next Door 12% 34% 2015 Director Alex Cross 11% 47% 2012 Director The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 13% 30% 2008 Director Stealth 13% 39% 2005 Director XXX: State of the Union 17% 32% 2005 Executive Producer Harnessing Speed 2005 Self The Last Ride 59% 2004 Executive Producer XXX 48% 58% 2002 Director The Fast and the Furious 55% 74% 2001 Director The Skulls 9% 43% 2000 Director The Rat Pack 57% 58% 1998 Director Daylight 26% 37% 1996 Director Dragonheart 50% 60% 1996 Director Relentless: Mind of a Killer 1993 Executive Producer Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story 74% 79% 1993 Director, Screenwriter The Hard Way 75% 53% 1991 Producer The Antagonists 1991 Director Bird on a Wire 26% 41% 1990 Producer The Serpent and the Rainbow 62% 57% 1988 Executive Producer Ironweed 60% 59% 1987 Executive Producer The Witches of Eastwick 66% 62% 1987 Executive Producer The Running Man 67% 61% 1987 Executive Producer The Monster Squad 56% 77% 1987 Executive Producer
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