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name: "Rob Cohen"
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roles: ["Director"]
born: "12 March 1949"
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updated: "2026-09-16T21:21:02.847456+00:00"
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# Rob Cohen

Director. Born 12 March 1949 in Cornwall, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 12 March 1949, Cornwall, New York, USA
- **Active:** 1984–1987
- **Also known as:** Robert "Rob" Cohen, Robert Cohen, 罗伯·科恩, Ρομπ Κοέν

## Biography

Rob Cohen is an American film and television director, producer and screenwriter. Born on 12 March 1949 in Cornwall, New York, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1971 with a degree in anthropology and visual studies.

He began his career as a producer in the 1970s, working at 20th Century Fox and Motown Productions on films including *The Wiz* (1978) and *Mahogany* (1975). Cohen directed his first feature, *A Small Circle of Friends*, in 1980 and episodes of series such as *Miami Vice* (1984) and *thirtysomething* (1987). From the 1990s he focused on directing, with credits including *Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story* (1993), *Dragonheart* (1996), *The Fast and the Furious* (2001) and *xXx* (2002). He also directed the television film *The Rat Pack* (1998).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Miami Vice* (1984), Fi1m 81, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/miami-vice.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *thirtysomething* (1987), Director

## Also known for

- *The Fast and the Furious* (2001), Director
- *xXx* (2002), Director
- *The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor* (2008), Director
- *DragonHeart* (1996), Director
- *The Boy Next Door* (2015), Director
- *Daylight* (1996), Director
- *Stealth* (2005), Director
- *The Hurricane Heist* (2018), Director

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