Name
David Ayer
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1968-01-18 (58 years old)
Place of Birth
Champaign, Illinois, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
6.682
Levon Cade left behind a decorated military career in the black ops to live a simple life ...
7.459
Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle...
7.275
One man's campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a for...
5.917
From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who...
7.527
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detect...
6.872
Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a youn...
7.357
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and fire...
- 2016 DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League
- 2008 Street Kings as NLR member in County Jail (uncredited)
- 2001 Training Day as First Russian Hitman (uncredited)
- 2008 The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry as Self
- 2008 A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry as Self
- 2008 The Evolution of Clint Eastwood as Self
- 2008 The Business End: Violence in Cinema as Self
- 2008 The Craft of Dirty Harry as Self
- 2020 Joker: Put on a Happy Face as Self
