Rob Cohen
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Rob Cohen

Born 12 March 1949 · Cornwall, New York, USA
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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).

Known for

The Fast and the Furious
xXx
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
DragonHeart
The Boy Next Door
Daylight
Stealth
The Hurricane Heist
Bird on a Wire
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Alex Cross
The Skulls
The Hurricane Heist
The Boy Next Door
Alex Cross
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Stealth
The Last Ride
xXx
Ritual
The Fast and the Furious
The Skulls
The Rat Pack
Flash Gordon: Marooned on Mongo
Daylight
DragonHeart
Vanishing Son IV
Vanishing Son
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
The Hard Way
Bird on a Wire
Light of Day
The Legend of Billie Jean
Scandalous
A Small Circle of Friends
The Wiz
Almost Summer
Thank God It's Friday
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Mahogany
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