Rob Cohen
Rob Cohen (born March 12, 1949) is an American film director, writer and producer. He is best known for directing the first Fast and the Furious installment (2001), as well as the action films xXx (2002) and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emporer (2008). He's a graduate in Anthropology and Visual Studies from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and while working as a reader for Universal in the early-1970s discovered the screenplay for what would become The Sting (1973).
26 directing credits · 13 acting credits
Directing · 26
Miami Vice
1984
xXx
2002
black-ish
2014
thirtysomething
1987
Speechless
2016
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
2008
The Boy Next Door
2015
Hooperman
1987
A Year in the Life
1987
Stealth
2005
Nasty Boys
1990
Daylight
1996
DragonHeart
1996
The Hurricane Heist
2018
Private Eye
1987
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
1993
Alex Cross
2012
The Skulls
2000
Eddie Dodd
1991
The Fast and the Furious
2001
The Antagonists
1991
The Rat Pack
1998
A Small Circle of Friends
1980
Scandalous
1984
The Guardian
1997
Speedhunters
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Acting · 13
xXx
2002
Vanishing Son
1994
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
1993
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004
The Skulls
2000
How Bruce Lee Changed the World
2009
The Fast and the Furious
2001
I Am Paul Walker
2018
Vanishing Son IV
1994
Tinsel - The Lost Movie About Hollywood
2020
Flash Gordon: Marooned on Mongo
1996
Michael Jackson: Man In The Mirror
2017
The Making of 'DragonHeart'
1997