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David Ayer

1968-01-18 (56 years old) in Champaign, Illinois, USA

David Ayer (born January 18, 1968) is an American filmmaker known for making crime films that are set in Los Angeles and deal with gangs and police corruption. His screenplays include Training Day (2001), The Fast and the Furious (2001), and S.W.A.T. (2003). He has also directed Harsh Times (2005), Street Kings (2008), End of Watch (2012), Sabotage (2014), and The Beekeeper (2024). In 2016, he directed the superhero movie Suicide Squad from the DC Extended Universe and then the urban fantasy film Bright (2017) for Netflix. He has twice collaborated with actor Shia LaBeouf: first with the World War II drama Fury (2014), then the crime thriller The Tax Collector (2020). He has also collaborated with his friend Cle Shaheed Sloan, who has appeared in four of his films. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Ayer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

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Joker: Put on a Happy Face
82 %|Aug 18, 2020
Documentary
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The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
58 %|Jul 23, 2008
Documentary
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A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
45 %|Jul 23, 2008
Documentary
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The Evolution of Clint Eastwood
70 %|Jun 3, 2008
Documentary
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The Business End: Violence in Cinema
80 %|Jun 3, 2008
Documentary
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The Craft of Dirty Harry
60 %|Jun 3, 2008
Documentary
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Street Kings
66 %|Apr 10, 2008
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Training Day
75.03999999999999 %|Oct 5, 2001
Action, Crime, Drama

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