Education

Adam Rifkin was a 1984 graduate of The Chicago Academy for the Arts.

Career

As a screenwriter, Rifkin has written several family-friendly movies. He wrote Knucklehead for WWE Studios, starring WWE star Big Show, Underdog for Walt Disney Animation Studios, Zoom, starring Tim Allen and two films for DreamWorks, MouseHunt and Small Soldiers. Continuing in the family film genre, he wrote the big screen version of He-Man for John Woo and 20th Century Fox. He also wrote the unused draft of Planet of the Apes in 1988.

Rifkin's film The Dark Backward was named one of the top ten films of its year by The New York Post. He was then the director responsible for New Line Cinema's Detroit Rock City.

Directing

Rifkin directed his first film Never on Tuesday in 1988. As of December 6, 2007, he has directed eleven others, including The Chase (1994), Detroit Rock City (1999) and the Night at the Golden Eagle (2002).

Production

Rifkin began his 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 Night at the Golden Eagle as well as Getting Hal by Tony Markes.

Acting

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, Night at the Golden Eagle, Without Charlie, Detroit Rock City, The Dark Backward, Denial and Psycho Cop 2. Rifkin also appeared as Croaker/Miss Spain in the 1989 film, Going Overboard, starring Adam Sandler and Burt Young.

He also wrote, directed and acted in the 2007 film Homo Erectus, in which he portrays a wimpy caveman called Ishbo, the main character in the film. The film's ensemble cast includes Ali Larter, David Carradine, Talia Shire, Gary Busey, and Ron Jeremy.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role
1988	Never on Tuesday	Writer, director, actor
1989	Going Overboard	Co-producer
1989	Tale of Two Sisters	Director
1990	The Invisible Maniac (a.k.a. The Invisible Sex Maniac)	Director and screenplay & story writer (all as Rif Coogan)
1990	Disturbed	Actor
1991	The Dark Backward	Writer, director, actor (all as Rif Coogan)
1991	Bikini Island	Actor
1992	Last Dance	Actor (as Rif Coogan)
1992	The Nutt House (a.k.a. The Nutty Nut)	Director
1993	The Flesh Merchant	Actor
1993	Bikini Squad	Actor
1993	Psycho Cop 2	Director (as Rif Coogan), actor
1994	The Chase	Writer, director
1996	Bone Chillers	Writer, creator/co-creator, director, co-executive producer
1997	MouseHunt	Writer
1998	Denial	Writer, actor
1998	Small Soldiers	Writer
1998	Susan's Plan (a.k.a. Dying to Get Rich)	Actor
1998	Welcome to Hollywood	Writer, director, actor
1999	Touch Me in the Morning	Producer
1999	Detroit Rock City	Director, actor (both as Rif Coogan)
1999	Miscellaneous Shit: Behind the Scenes of Detroit Rock City	Actor
2001	Without Charlie	Writer, director, actor
2001	Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy (a.k.a. The Legend of Ron Jeremy)	Actor
2001	Night at the Golden Eagle	Writer, director, actor, producer
2003	Getting Hai	Producer
2005	Grandpa	Producer
2006	Zoom	Writer
2007	Homo Erectus (a.k.a. National Lampoon's The Stoned Age)	Writer, director, actor
2007	Garbanzo Gas	Producer
2007	Look	Writer, director
2007	Underdog	Writer
2007	Blump's Squeezable Documentary	Producer, actor
2008	Entertainment Tonight: Episode dated July 11, 2008	Actor
2008	Spread TV: Episode #4.2	Actor
2008	Starz Inside: In the Gutter (TV Episode)	Actor
2008	Trailers From Hell	Actor
2008	Fairy Tail Police	Actor
2009	Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema (TV)	Actor
2010	Advice for New Screenwriters	Actor
2010	Knucklehead	Writer
2010	Look: The Series	Writer, director (2010), executive producer
2011	Chillerama	Actor, executive producer
2012	Reality Show	Actor, writer, director, executive producer
2014	Giuseppe Makes a Movie	Director, producer
2015	Shooting the Warwicks	Actor, director, producer, writer
2015	Director's Cut	Director, producer

[ Source: Wikipedia ]