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Adam Rifkin
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Adam Rifkin (born in 1966), sometimes credited as Rif Coogan, is an American film director, producer, actor and writer. Rifkin is claimed to belong to a rare breed of film directors that transited from public access television to Hollywood.
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Adam Rifkin directed his first film Never on Tuesday in 1988. As of this writing he has directed eleven others, including Detroit Rock City (1999) and the lurid yet idiosyncratic A Night at the Golden Eagle (2002).
Rifkin began his relatively limited production career in 1999 on the production of Touch Me in the Morning by Giuseppe Andrews. Preceding his completion of that project, Rifkin produced his own film A Night at the Golden Eagle as well as Getting Hal by Tony Markes.
Adam Rifkin began his acting career in 1988 his directorial debut Never on Tuesday. Rifkin has appeared in small roles and cameos in his other films, A Night at the Golden Eagle, Without Charlie, Detroit Rock City, Denial and Psycho Cop 2. Rifkin also appeared as Babes Ahoy in the 1989 film, Going Overboard, starring Adam Sandler and Burt Young.
Besides being the author of a majority of the films he directed, Rifkin has also written screenplays for a few notable Hollywood films, including Small Soldiers and Mousehunt starring Nathan Lane.
- Adam Rifkin was the basis for the character "Adam Rafkin" on the show "Action" in 1999.
- Rifkin was interviewed as himself in the documentary film, Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy.