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Rob Cohen

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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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 / ALEX CROSS, from left: Jean Reno, Tyler Perry, director Rob Cohen, on set, 2012. ph: Sidney Baldwin/©Summit Entertainment Rob Cohen at arrivals for Premiere of THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR, Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal City Walk, Los Angeles, CA, July 27, 2008. Photo by: Michael Germana/Everett Collection Barbara Cohen, Rob Cohen at arrivals for THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR Premiere, Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal City Walk, Los Angeles, CA, July 27, 2008. Photo by: Tony Gonzalez/Everett Collection
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
47% 23% The Hurricane Heist Director,
Producer 		$6.1M 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Classy Broad Self - 2016
12% 34% The Boy Next Door Director $35.4M 2015
11% 47% Alex Cross Director $25.9M 2012
13% 30% The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Director $102.2M 2008
13% 39% Stealth Director $31.7M 2005
17% 32% XXX: State of the Union Executive Producer $26.0M 2005
No Score Yet No Score Yet Harnessing Speed Self - 2005
No Score Yet 59% The Last Ride Executive Producer - 2004
48% 58% XXX Director $141.2M 2002
54% 74% The Fast and the Furious Director $144.5M 2001
9% 43% The Skulls Director $35.0M 2000
57% 58% The Rat Pack Director - 1998
26% 37% Daylight Director $32.9M 1996
50% 60% Dragonheart Director $51.3M 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Relentless: Mind of a Killer Executive Producer - 1993
74% 79% Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story Director,
Screenwriter 		$34.9M 1993
75% 53% The Hard Way Producer $24.5M 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Antagonists Director - 1991
25% 41% Bird on a Wire Producer $68.8M 1990
62% 57% The Serpent and the Rainbow Executive Producer $19.0M 1988
60% 59% Ironweed Executive Producer $6.9M 1987
67% 62% The Witches of Eastwick Executive Producer $58.7M 1987
67% 61% The Running Man Executive Producer $38.0M 1987
56% 78% The Monster Squad Executive Producer $3.8M 1987
53% 54% Light of Day Producer $9.1M 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Scandalous Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1984
No Score Yet 26% A Small Circle of Friends Director - 1980
44% 65% The Wiz Producer - 1978
36% 35% Thank God It's Friday Producer - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Almost Summer Producer - 1978
No Score Yet 75% Scott Joplin Executive Producer - 1977
87% 65% The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings Producer - 1976
29% 75% Mahogany Producer - 1975

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Last Call With Carson Daly Guest 2015
71% 85% Miami Vice Director 1985-1986