---
name: "Eric Red"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/eric-red"
fi1m_id: "eric-red"
imdb_id: "nm0714599"
tmdb_id: 54839
wikidata_id: "Q369201"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "16 February 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-05T04:34:24.854388+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Eric Red

## Identity

Eric Red

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/eric-red
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** eric-red
- **IMDb ID:** nm0714599
- **TMDB ID:** 54839
- **Wikidata ID:** Q369201
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Red, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369201, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0714599/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54839

Producer. Born 16 February 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 16 February 1961, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- **Also known as:** Eric Joseph Durdaller, Eric Durdaller
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Red, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369201, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0714599/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54839

## Biography

Eric Red (born Eric Joseph Durdaller) is an American screenwriter and director. He was born on 16 February 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the AFI Conservatory in 1983.

His first produced feature screenplay was *The Hitcher* (1986). He co-wrote the screenplay for *Near Dark* (1987) with Kathryn Bigelow. Subsequent screenplays include *Blue Steel* (1990), *The Last Outlaw* (1993) and *100 Feet* (2008).

Red has also directed several films, including *Cohen and Tate* (1989), *Body Parts* (1991) and *Bad Moon* (1996).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Near Dark* (1987), Fi1m 82, Screenplay, Co-Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/near-dark.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Night of the Wild* (2015), Director
- *100 Feet* (2008), Director, Writer
- *The Hitcher* (2007), Screenplay, Original Film Writer
- *The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting* (2003), Characters
- *The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?* (2003), Actor
- *Bad Moon* (1996), Director, Screenplay
- *Undertow* (1996), Director, Writer
- *The Last Outlaw* (1993), Writer
- *Body Parts* (1991), Director, Screenplay
- *Blue Steel* (1990), Writer
- *Cohen and Tate* (1989), Director, Screenplay
- *Near Dark* (1987), Screenplay, Co-Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/near-dark.md)
- *The Hitcher* (1986), Writer
- *Telephone* (1986), Editor, Director, Writer
- *Gunmen's Blues* (1981), Director, Writer, Editor
- *White Knuckle*, Novel, Screenplay, Director

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