Rob Cohen

Born: 1949-03-12, Cornwall, New York, USA

Biography

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).

Filmography

• black-ish (2014)
• thirtysomething (1987)
• Speechless (2016)
• xXx (2002)
• xXx (2002)
• The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
• Vanishing Son (1994)
• Vanishing Son (1994)
• DragonHeart (1996)
• Stealth (2005)
• Daylight (1996)
• The Hurricane Heist (2018)
• Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
• Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
• Alex Cross (2012)
• The Skulls (2000)
• The Skulls (2000)
• The Boy Next Door (2015)
• The Fast and the Furious (2001)
• The Fast and the Furious (2001)
• The Rat Pack (1998)
• Vanishing Son IV (1994)
• A Small Circle of Friends (1980)
• Flash Gordon: Marooned on Mongo (1996)