Boaz Davidson (Hebrew: בועז דוידזון, pronounced [boˈaz ˈdavidson]; born 8 November 1943) is an Israeli film director, producer and screenwriter. He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and studied film in London at London Film School.[1]
Boaz Davidson | |
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Born | (1943-11-08) November 8, 1943 (age 78) Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine (now Israel) |
Alma mater | London Film School |
Occupation | Director, producer, writer |
Davidson was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a Jewish family. He started his career by directing the television show Lool (1969) and the music documentary Shablul (1970). Later he directed Israeli cult films such as Charlie Ve'hetzi (1974) and Hagiga B'Snuker (1975). In 1974 he directed the film Mishpahat Tzan'ani. He directed the first four films in the Eskimo Limon series (Eskimo Limon (1978), Yotzim Kavua (1979), Shifshuf Naim (1981), Sapiches (1982). Eskimo Limon was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival in 1978.[citation needed] In 1986 he directed the cult film Alex Holeh Ahavah.
In 1979 Davidson moved from Israel to the United States and started working as a director, directing a remake of Eskimo Limon, The Last American Virgin in 1982.[2]
Davidson continued to work in the United States as a producer and a screenwriter. He was involved in producing several major films including 16 Blocks,[3] The Wicker Man,[3] The Black Dahlia,[3] 2008's Rambo[3] and The Expendables.[3] He is also listed as a producer in the thriller Trespass.[3]
Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | ||
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Director | Writer | Producer | |||
1971 | Fifty-Fifty | Yes | Yes | No | Co-wrote with Assi Dayan and Nissim Azikri |
1972 | Azit Hakalba Hatzanhanit | Yes | Yes | No | Co-wrote with Uzi Fleitman |
1974 | Charlie Ve'hetzi | Yes | No | No | |
1975 | The Long Night | Yes | No | No | Co-directed with Tonino Cervi |
Hagiga B'Snuker | Yes | No | No | ||
1976 | Mishpahat Tzan'ani | Yes | No | No | |
Lupo B'New York | Yes | Yes | No | Co-wrote with Shimon Yisraeli | |
1977 | Operation Thunderbolt | second unit | No | No | |
1978 | Lemon Popsicle | Yes | Yes | No | Co-wrote with Eli Tavor |
It's a Funny, Funny World | No | Yes | No | ||
1979 | Going Steady | Yes | Yes | No | Co-wrote with Eli Tavor |
1980 | Seed of Innocence | Yes | Yes | No | Co-wrote with Stu Krieger |
1981 | Hot Bubblegum | Yes | Yes | No | Co-wrote with Eli Tavor and Sam Waynberg |
Hospital Massacre | Yes | story | No | ||
1982 | The Last American Virgin | Yes | Yes | No | |
Private Popsicle | Yes | Yes | No | Co-wrote with Eli Tavor | |
1983 | Private Manoeuvres | No | Yes | No | |
Baby Love | No | Yes | No | Co-wrote with Eli Tavor and Dan Wolman | |
1985 | Hot Resort | No | Yes | No | Co-wrote screenplay with John Robins and Norman Hudis |
1986 | Alex Holeh Ahavah | Yes | Yes | No | |
1987 | Dutch Treat | Yes | No | No | |
Going Bananas | Yes | No | No | ||
1988 | Salsa | Yes | Yes | No | Co-wrote screenplay with Tomás Benitez and Shepard Goldman, co-wrote story with Eli Tavor |
1989 | Crazy Camera | Yes | Yes | Yes | Co-written and directed with Tzvi Shissel |
1991 | Delta Force 3: The Killing Game | No | Yes | Yes | Co-wrote with Andy Deutsch & Greg Latter |
1992 | Licking the Raspberry | No | No | Yes | |
Tipat Mazal | No | No | Yes | ||
1993 | American Cyborg: Steel Warrior | Yes | story | No | Co-wrote story with Christopher Pearce |
1994 | Blood Run | Yes | story | No | Co-wrote story with Dennis Dimster |
1995 | Lunarcop | Yes | No | No | |
Wild Side | No | No | co-producer | ||
Search and Destroy | No | No | associate | ||
Hard Justice | No | No | Yes | ||
1996 | The Last Days of Frankie the Fly | No | No | executive | |
Orion's Key | No | story | No | Co-wrote with Danny Lerner and Mark Roper | |
1997 | Plato's Run | No | No | co-producer | |
Dog Watch | No | No | executive | ||
American Perfekt | No | No | executive | ||
The Maker | No | No | co-producer | ||
Santa Fe | No | No | executive | ||
Looking for Lola | Yes | story | Yes | Co-wrote story with John Thompson | |
1998 | Armstrong | No | No | associate | |
Shadrach | No | No | Yes | ||
Some Girl | No | No | Yes | ||
No Code of Conduct | No | No | co-producer | ||
October 22 | No | No | co-executive | ||
Outside Ozona | No | No | executive | ||
1999 | Guinevere | No | No | executive | |
The Big Brass Ring | No | No | executive | ||
Cold Harvest | No | No | Yes | ||
Bridge of Dragons | No | No | Yes | ||
The 4th Floor | No | No | Yes | ||
2000 | The Alternate | second unit | No | No | |
For the Cause | No | No | Yes | ||
Spiders | No | story | Yes | ||
Crocodile | No | story | Yes | ||
Octopus | No | story | Yes | ||
2001 | Nobody's Baby | No | No | Yes | |
Cold Heart | No | No | Yes | ||
Forever Lulu | No | No | Yes | ||
Spiders II: Breeding Ground | No | story | Yes | ||
U.S. Seals II | No | story | Yes | ||
Ticker | No | No | executive | ||
Edges of the Lord | No | No | executive | ||
According to Spencer | No | No | No | The producers wish to thank | |
Diary of a Sex Addict | No | No | executive | ||
The Order | No | No | executive | ||
2002 | Octopus 2: River of Fear | No | story | Yes | Co-wrote story with Danny Lerner |
Panic | No | story | Yes | ||
Hard Cash | No | No | executive | ||
Crocodile 2: Death Swamp | No | story | Yes | ||
All I Want | No | No | executive | ||
Derailed | No | story | Yes | ||
Shark Attack 3: Megalodon | No | No | Yes | ||
2003 | Killer Rats | No | story | Yes | |
Cult of Fury | No | story | Yes | Co-wrote with Danny Lerner | |
Den of Lions | No | No | executive | ||
Marines | No | No | Yes | ||
In Hell | No | No | executive | ||
Special Forces | No | No | Yes | ||
Alien Hunter | No | story | Yes | Co-wrote story with J.S. Cardone | |
Submarines | No | No | Yes | ||
Out for a Kill | No | No | executive | ||
Air Marshal | No | No | Yes | ||
Air Strike | No | story | Yes | ||
Shark Zone | No | No | Yes | ||
Blind Horizon | No | No | executive | ||
2004 | Detention | No | No | No | Special thanks |
Skeleton Man | No | No | executive | ||
Alien Lockdown | No | story | Yes | Co-wrote story with John Thompson and Ken Badish | |
Shadow of Fear | No | No | executive | ||
Unstoppable | No | No | Yes | ||
Control | No | No | executive | ||
2005 | Larva | No | story | Yes | Co-wrote story with Ken Badish |
Mansquito | No | story | Yes | Co-wrote story with Ken Badish & Ray Cannella | |
Raging Sharks | No | No | executive | ||
Snakeman | No | story | Yes | Co-wrote story with Ken Badish | |
Submerged | No | No | executive | ||
Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy | No | story | Yes | Co-wrote story with Ken Badish | |
Mozart and the Whale | No | No | Yes | ||
Today You Die | No | No | executive | ||
The Mechanik | No | No | executive | ||
The Cutter | No | No | executive | ||
2006 | 16 Blocks | No | No | executive | |
End Game | No | No | executive | ||
Undisputed 2: Last Man Standing | No | story | Yes | ||
Mercenary for Justice | No | No | executive | ||
Journey to the End of the Night | No | No | executive | ||
Lonely Hearts | No | No | Yes | ||
Relative Strangers | No | No | executive | ||
The Black Hole | No | story | Yes | Co-wrote story with Ken Badish | |
The Black Dahlia | No | No | executive | ||
Edison | second unit | No | Yes | ||
The Wicker Man | second unit | No | Yes | ||
The Contract | No | No | executive | ||
Wicked Little Things | No | story | Yes | ||
Home of the Brave | No | No | executive | ||
2007 | King of California | No | No | executive | |
Gryphon | No | Yes | executive | Co-wrote screenplay with Ken Badish and Sean Keller and Tim Cox, co-wrote story with Ken Badish | |
88 Minutes | No | No | executive | ||
Until Death | No | No | executive | ||
Bobby Z | No | No | executive | ||
When Nietzsche Wept | No | No | executive | ||
Mega Snake | No | story | Yes | ||
Finding Rin Tin Tin | No | No | executive | ||
Showdown at Area 51 | No | No | executive | ||
Blonde Ambition | No | No | executive | ||
2008 | Mad Money | second unit | No | executive | |
Rambo | No | No | executive | ||
Hero Wanted | No | No | executive | ||
Day of the Dead | No | No | Yes | ||
War, Inc. | No | No | executive | ||
My Mom's New Boyfriend | No | No | executive | ||
Righteous Kill | No | No | executive | ||
Shark in Venice | No | No | executive | ||
Train | No | No | Yes | ||
The Prince & Me: A Royal Honeymoon | No | No | executive | ||
Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous | No | No | Yes | ||
2009 | Thick as Thieves | No | No | executive | |
Brooklyn's Finest | No | No | executive | ||
Direct Contact | No | No | executive | ||
It's Alive | No | No | executive | ||
Labor Pains | No | No | executive | ||
Streets of Blood | No | No | executive | ||
Command Performance | No | No | executive | ||
Lies & Illusions | No | No | executive | ||
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | No | No | executive | ||
Leaves of Grass | No | No | executive | ||
Solitary Man | No | No | executive | ||
Ninja | second unit | Yes | Yes | Co-wrote screenplay with Michael Hurst | |
Double Identity | No | No | executive | ||
2010 | The Prince & Me: The Elephant Adventure | No | story | executive | |
The Expendables | No | No | executive | ||
Cool Dog | No | No | executive | ||
Trust | No | No | executive | ||
Bunraku | No | story | No | ||
2011 | The Mechanic | No | No | executive | |
The Son of No One | No | No | executive | ||
Drive Angry | No | No | executive | ||
Elephant White | No | No | executive | ||
Conan the Barbarian | No | No | Yes | Additional second unit director | |
Trespass | No | No | executive | ||
2012 | The Paperboy | No | No | executive | |
The Expendables 2 | No | No | executive | Additional second unit director | |
The Iceman | No | No | executive | ||
Playing for Keeps | No | No | executive | ||
2013 | Straight A's | No | No | executive | Uncredited |
Lovelace | No | No | executive | ||
Spiders 3D | No | No | executive | Also development executive | |
Olympus Has Fallen | No | No | executive | ||
As I Lay Dying | No | No | executive | ||
Killing Season | No | No | executive | ||
Ninja: Shadow of a Tear | No | based on the movie | Yes | ||
Homefront | No | No | executive | ||
2014 | The Legend of Hercules | No | No | Yes | |
The Expendables 3 | No | No | executive | ||
Before I Go to Sleep | No | No | executive | ||
2015 | Survivor | No | No | executive | |
Intruders | No | No | No | Special thanks | |
Septembers of Shiraz | No | No | executive | ||
2016 | London Has Fallen | No | No | executive | |
Criminal | No | No | executive | ||
Mechanic: Resurrection | No | No | executive | ||
Boyka: Undisputed | No | story | Yes | ||
2017 | The Hitman's Bodyguard | No | No | executive | |
Leatherface | No | No | executive | ||
Acts of Vengeance | No | No | Yes | ||
Bigfoot | No | No | executive | ||
Bullet Head | No | No | executive | ||
Day of the Dead: Bloodline | No | No | Yes | ||
2018 | Hunter Killer | No | No | executive | |
211 | No | No | executive | ||
2019 | Angel Has Fallen | No | No | executive | |
Blackbird | No | No | executive | ||
Rambo: Last Blood | No | No | executive | ||
Kill Chain | No | No | executive | ||
2020 | The Outpost | No | No | executive | Head of creative affairs |
2021 | Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard | No | No | executive | |
Till Death | No | No | executive | ||
Jolt | No | No | executive | ||
The Protégé | No | No | executive | ||
TBA | Abyzou | No | No | executive | |
The Enforcer | No | No | executive | ||
The Expendables 4 | No | No | executive |
Films directed by Boaz Davidson | |
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