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David Ayer

Directing
Born Jan 18, 1968 (age 58) · Champaign, Illinois, USA
6 films on the record
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📽 Career spans 25 years on the record (2001–2026).

🤝 Has directed Jason Statham across 3 films.

🎭 86% of their films on the record are Action.

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.

As director
Suicide Squad
Fury
The Beekeeper
End of Watch
A Working Man
Heart of the Beast

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