Biography
This busy producer-director of film and TV became one of Hollywood's "baby moguls" of the 1970s. At age 24, Cohen headed up the motion picture producing arm of Motown Records, overseeing some notable and/or popular black-oriented films: "Mahogany" (1975), "The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings" (1976), "Scott Joplin: King of Ragtime" (1977), "Thank God It's Friday" and Sidney Lumet's notorious "The Wiz" (both 1978). At age 28, he …
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Career Milestones
2012 | Helmed crime thriller "Alex Cross," based on the novel Cross by James Patterson | |
2008 | Helmed third film in The Mummy franchise "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" | |
2005 | Executive produced "XXX: State of the Union" | |
2005 | Helmed the thriller "Stealth," starring Jamie Foxx and Jessica Biel | |
2002 | Reunited with Diesel for the spy thriller "XXX" | |
2001 | Enjoyed a box-office hit as director of "The Fast and the Furious," starring Vin Diesel | |
2000 | Helmed the poorly received thriller "The Skulls" | |
1998 | Directed the HBO movie "The Rat Pack" | |
1993 | Breakthrough directorial project, "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" | |
1990 | First film released by The Badham/Cohen Group, "Bird on a Wire" | |
| Formed The Badham/Cohen Group with director John Badham, merging their two separate deals with MCA | ||
| Served as vice chairman of Keith Barish Productions | ||
| Began directing TV commercials | ||
1985 | Began directing regularly for episodic TV | |
1985 | Appointed president of Keith Barish Productions | |
1984 | First film as screenwriter, "Scandalous" | |
1980 | Feature film directing debut, "A Small Circle of Friends" | |
1978 | Left Motown to form his own production company | |
1975 | First film as producer, "Mahogany" (Motown) | |
1973 | Became executive vice president of the motion picture divsion of Motown Records at age 24 | |
| Served as director of the made-for-TV movies at 20th Century Fox | ||
| Hired as an assistant to Richard Berger, vice president of 20th Century Fox TV | ||
| Evaluated and recommended the script for "The Sting" (1973); project was set up at Universal within a week | ||
| Worked as a reader for the International Famous Agency (now part of ICM) | ||
| Hired by producer Martin Jurow to try writing screenplays | ||
1969 | While a college sophomore, assisted director Daniel Petrie on NBC movie "Silent Night, Lonely Night" | |