David Ayer Filmography

Occupation:: Co-producer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Born in 1968, David Ayer spent most of his childhood traveling rootlessly around the United States with his family, until his folks settled in south central Los Angeles. Dissatisfied with his secondary education, and even less eager to give university life a shot ("I was never a college boy"), he...Read More

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Street Kings

Crew: Director

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Cedric the Entertainer

Synopsis: In the wake of the L.A. riots, an LAPD Vice Detective who always went above and beyond the call of duty to keep the streets safe receives a startling wake-up call that leaves him convinced that he can no longer employ the tactics that made him so effective in his work. LAPD veteran Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves Read More

4/11/08
Mafia Cop

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The police corruption scandal frequently sited as one of the worst in New York history comes to the big screen in director David Ayer's (Harsh Times) adaptation of Louis Eppolito and Bob Drury's book Mafia Cop: The Story of an Honest Cop Whose Family Was the Mob. Louis Eppolito was a highly Read More

1/1/08
Harsh Times

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Christian Bale, Freddy Rodriguez, Eva Longoria, Terry Crews, Noel Guglielmi

Synopsis: An unstable Gulf War veteran with a savior complex receives a shocking wake-up call upon returning stateside and accepting a position with the Department of Homeland Security in the directorial debut of Training Day screenwriter David Ayer. Jim (Christian Bale) is a Gulf War veteran who believes Read More

11/10/06
S.W.A.T.

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, LL Cool J, Josh Charles, Jeremy Renner, Brian Van Holt, Olivier Martinez, James DuMont, Michael Ealy, Matt Gerald, Page Kennedy, Benjamin King

Synopsis: Clark Johnson's big-screen adaptation of the 1970s television series S.W.A.T. stars Colin Farrell as Jim Street, a young special weapons and tactics team member who, in the film's opening sequence, is demoted after his hothead partner Jeremy Renner shoots a hostage while trying to kill her captor. Read More

8/8/03
Dark Blue

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kurt Russell, Brendan Gleeson, Scott Speedman, Michael Michele, Ving Rhames

Synopsis: A cop's personal code of justice begins to change after a number of incidents lead his city to a tragic wave of violence in this police drama. Eldon Perry (Kurt Russell) is a veteran cop with the LAPD's Special Investigations unit, a man who isn't above bending the law if it means putting people Read More

2/21/03
Training Day

Crew: Co-producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn

Synopsis: The Fast and the Furious (2001) screenwriter David Ayer follows up that fast-paced action hit with this gritty cop drama from director Antoine Fuqua. Ethan Hawke stars as Jake Hoyt, a fresh-faced Los Angeles Police Department rookie anxious to join the elite narcotics squad headed up by 13-year Read More

10/5/01
The Fast and the Furious

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Rick Yune

Synopsis: A magazine article about real-life car racing gangs for Vibe becomes this fast-paced automotive thriller from director Rob Cohen. Paul Walker stars as Brian O'Conner, a youthful FBI agent investigating a series of hijackings by going undercover with a street gang led by charismatic Dominic Toretto Read More

6/22/01
U-571

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi, Jake Weber

Synopsis: In this World War II action thriller, American reconnaissance agents learn that a German submarine is sinking. The doomed ship carries an Enigma Machine, a special coding device that allows high-level Axis forces to send messages that can't be read without a similar encryption mechanism. Obtaining Read More

4/21/00