Rod Jackson

Rod Jackson is an actor, known for We the Jury: Case 1 (2020).

Rod Jonusas

Rod Jonusas is an actor, known for Bite Club (2018).

Rod Kasai

Rod Kasai is a diverse, award winning actor born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He began his training at a young age with Wisdom Bridge theater in Chicago, through an arts partnership with the grammar school he attended. That partnership led to an adapted stage version of William Shakespear's Macbeth, where Rod starred as the titular character. Going on to high school where he would letter in 2 sports, Rod would continue his education through an athletic scholarship to college, where he graduated with a degree in Applied Psychology while working as a model and actor during summers between school years. Rod began his career in feature films with the 1999 film Light it up , while earning a scholarship to The Chicago Actor's Studio for more intensive training. This led to more work in feature films like The Watcher , and the Muhammad Ali biopic ALI, both in front of and behind the camera. Of mixed ancestry and also multi cultural, diversity has always been the natural foundation of Rod's life, growing up in communities where over a dozen languages were spoken. That diversity has allowed Rod to take on challenging roles of nearly every ethnic background including African American, Asian and Latino among others. Since then he has won several acting awards and has appeared in both award winning feature and short films, Including the critically acclaimed and film fest darling, Frost Bite, where he donned heavy makeup to portray Jonathan, in a unique role that earned him several best actor nominations despite playing a Zombie. Other notable roles are as the fiery Sgt. Perry in The Great War, and as the civil rights crusader Lamar Ali in Black in Minneapolis. He has also appeared in numerous music videos, web series, and national commercials. Having an athletic background, Rod has had training in Martial arts, skydiving, fight choreography, firearms and typically performs his own stunts.

Rod Keller

Rod Keller is an actor, known for Super Drags (2018), He's Just Not That Into You (2009) and Modern Family (2009).

Rod La Rocque

Rod La Rocque was born Roderick Ross LaRocque on November 29, 1898 in Chicago to a French father and an Irish mother. Stage-struck in his early teen years, he spent his summers with local stock companies, playing juvenile roles for $1.00 per performance. By the time he was 16, while he was appearing in vaudeville, he got a bit part in Triangle Studios' production The Snowman (1912), for which he was paid the princely sum of $3.25 for a day's work. He moved on to Chicago's other major studio, Essanay, as a bit player from 1914-1917. He started out in the company's Black Cat Productions division, which produced potboilers and comedies. He eventually moved up into better, and better-paying, parts. Essanay went out of business in 1918, and La Rocque moved to New York City, where he signed with agent, and later independent producer, Edward Small, among whose clients was Norma Shearer, with whom La Rocque would later appear in MGM's Let Us Be Gay (1930). The 6'3" La Rocque got a bit part in the Billie Burke film Let's Get a Divorce (1918) and turned to the theater for work. He was cast in the lead of "Up the Ladder," which flopped, necessitating his return to cinema work, though he would continue to appear in the theater through the early 1920s. He made three movies for Sam Goldfish (who renamed himself Samuel Goldwyn) in 1918, but La Rocque remained a freelance actor, not signing with any one studio. He appeared in films for Famous Players-Lasky, Universal and Vitagraph, among others, but did not break through to the big time until Cecil B. DeMille cast him in The Ten Commandments (1923), the film that made La Rocque a star. For the next five years, until the advent of the talkies, he worked for DeMille's own Producers' Distribution Corporation and for Famous Players-Lasky (the future Paramount, with which DeMille also was associated). La Rocque met his future wife, Hungarian actress Vilma Bánky, at a dinner party at DeMille's home in 1925. When they married in 1927, it was a lavish affair in which DeMille served as best man. The wedding was attended by the creme de la creme of Hollywood society, and afterward, there was a reception for 2,000 at the Beverly Hills Hotel. When La Rocque's contract with DeMille and Famous Players-Lasky lapsed after 1928, he went back to being a freelance actor, appearing in films for Fox, First National and MGM. It was the beginning of the sound era, but La Rocque and Banky were still popular. In 1930 Broadway producer Archibald Selwyn (one of the founders of both Goldwyn Studios and MGM) signed La Rocque and Banky to star in Anita Loos' play "Cherries are Ripe," but it drew indifferent crowds. Three years later husband and wife went to Germany, where La Rocque filmed S.O.S. Iceberg (1933) for director Leni Riefenstahl and Banky starred in what proved to be her final film, The Rebel (1933). After returning to the US, La Rocque continued to appear in films, though now they were B-pictures, with the occasional supporting role in an A-picture such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939). He made his last appearance in the Frank Capra classic Meet John Doe (1941). After retiring from the screen, Rod La Rocque and Vilma Banky continued to live in Los Angeles, where he died October 15, 1969, six weeks shy of his 71st birthday.

Rod Landivar

Rod Landivar is an actor, known for Sinking Sand (2016).

Rod Laver

Possibly the greatest tennis player of all time. Winner of two Grand Slams, one Pro Slam and at least 199 tournaments, winner of 11 major titles. The amount of major titles probably would have been far more if he was not banned from playing in the majors from 1963 to 1967 and part of 1968 because he turned professional. Truly a legend in his own time. Laver won the amateur Grand Slam in 1962 and then turned pro in 1963. Turning pro prevented him from entered the prestigious major tournaments (Australian, French, Wimbledon, US Championships) for five years. Laver played in the powerful Pro Tour in those years, winning eight Pro Majors in those years including the Pro Grand Slam in 1967 which consisted of the French Pro, Wembley Pro and the US Professional Championships. If you included the Pro Majors, Laver has won a total of 19 total majors in his unparalleled career.

Rod Leith

Rod Lousich

Rod Lousich was born in 1967. He is an actor, known for The Warrior's Way (2010), Power Rangers Operation Overdrive (2007) and Luella Miller (2005).

Rod Lurie

Rod Lurie is the director of the "The Outpost," released July 2020, starring Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, and Orlando Bloom. The film, based on CNN chief correspondent Jake Tapper's bestselling book of the same name, tells the true story of the events leading up to and including the Battle of Kamdesh in Afghanistan, where a small unit of U.S. soldiers defended against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in what was one of the bloodiest American engagements of the Afghan War. The battle resulted in two living service members, Ty Carter and Clint Romesha, being awarded the Medal of Honor - the first time that had happened in fifty years. Previously Lurie wrote and directed the widely-praised Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominated political thriller "The Contender," starring Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges, Gary Oldman and Christian Slater. The film was also honored by the Broadcast Film Critics with the first-ever Alan J. Pakula Award. He also wrote and directed the films "Straw Dogs," a remake of the 1971 classic starring James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, and Alexander Skarsgard, "Nothing But the Truth," starring Kate Beckinsale, Alan Alda, and Matt Dillon, "Resurrecting the Champ," starring Samuel L. Jackson and Josh Hartnett. Additionally, he created and executive-produced "Line of Fire," a one-hour FBI drama for ABC, and directed the feature film "The Last Castle," which starred Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, and Mark Ruffalo. In television, Lurie created the series "Commander In Chief," which was nominated for the Best Drama Series Golden Globe, and for which Geena Davis won the Best Actress Golden Globe for her depiction of the first female President of the United States. Lurie made his film writing and directing debut in 1998 with the dramatic short "Four Second Delay," which won the Best Short Film award at the Atlanta Film Festival and the Crested Butte Reel Fest. The film also won the Prix du Jury at the Festival of American Cinema in Deauville, France. Lurie followed in 2000 with his first feature film, "Deterrence," a drama about America coming to the brink of nuclear war, starring Kevin Pollak and Timothy Hutton. Before he segued to filmmaking, Lurie graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1984 and went on to serve for four years as a Combat Arms officer in the U.S. Army. After the military, Lurie first enjoyed success as a film critic and entertainment reporter, breaking into journalism as a reporter for the New York Daily News, and was also a film critic and interviewer for Channel 12 in Fairfield, Connecticut. In addition, he was a frequent contributor to such magazines as Premiere, Movieline and Entertainment Weekly. After moving to Los Angeles, Lurie worked as a film critic, investigative reporter and contributing editor to Los Angeles Magazine from 1990-1995. As an investigative reporter in the entertainment industry, Lurie's discovery of unethical and illegal practices of tabloid newspapers gained him national exposure on programs such as "60 Minutes" and "Nightline." He spent the next four years as the film critic for KABC 790 Radio in Los Angeles, where his top-rated movie review show entertained Southern California moviegoers every Saturday from 1995 to 1999. His on-air guests included: Tom Hanks, James Woods, Billy Bob Thornton, Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Landau, James Cameron and Mel Gibson. In addition, Lurie authored the book Once Upon A Time in Hollywood in 1995. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the bestselling novelist Kyra Davis.