Adam Rifkin

Biography

Adam Rifkin 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. Adam Rifkin is a writer/director/producer/actor whose eclectic career ranges from broad family comedies to cult classics to dark and gritty urban dramas. Rifkin is best known in Hollywood circles for writing family-friendly comedies like Mousehunt and 2007's Underdog. Most recently Rifkin wrote, executive produced and directed all 11 episodes of Look for Showtime. Based on his award winning film of the same name, LOOK is a drama that takes the viewer into the foreboding world of hidden cameras. Armed with the knowledge that Americans are captured on surveillance cameras more than 300 times a day, the topical series, like the film, tells its story exclusively through the eyes of the security cameras, web cams, and cell phone cameras Americans live in front of everyday, bringing to light the realities of what it means to be watched in a camera consumed culture.

Known For

X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All-Time

Sixteen Candles

Going Overboard

Chillerama

Detroit Rock City

Kiss: Through the Years

Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy

Homo Erectus

All Movies (36)

• BFFs2025
• Sharksploitation2024 · as Self
• Fast, Cheap and Out of Sight: Making 'The Invisible Maniac'2022
• I Am Burt Reynolds2020 · as Self - Interviewee
• Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi2020 · as Self
• Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness2020 · as Self
• The Intervention2018
• To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story2017 · as Self
• A Taboo Identity2017 · as Himself
• Habeas Corpus: The Making of 'Psycho Cop Returns'2017 · as Self
• X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All-Time2016 · as Self
• Director's Cut2016 · as Adam Rifkin
• Shooting the Warwicks2015 · as Mickey Wagner
• Chillerama2011 · as Miles Munson (segment "Wadzilla")
• Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema2009 · as Self
• Tales from the Script2009 · as Self
• Starz Inside: In the Gutter2008 · as Self
• Homo Erectus2007 · as Ishbo
• Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy2001 · as Self
• Without Charlie2001 · as Norman
• Welcome to Hollywood2000 · as Adam Rifkin
• Detroit Rock City1999 · as It's Raining Men Billboard Model (uncredited)
• Susan's Plan1998 · as Gambler #1
• Denial1998 · as Reuben
• Psycho Cop Returns1993 · as Man with Video Camera
• The Flesh Merchant1993 · as Man in Bondage Room
• Bikini Squad1993 · as Singing Teacher
• Last Dance1992 · as Mark
• The Dark Backward1991 · as Rufus Bing
• Bikini Island1991 · as Desk Boy
• Disturbed1990 · as Gary
• Going Overboard1989 · as Croaker / Miss Spain
• Never on Tuesday1989 · as William (uncredited)
• Sixteen Candles1984 · as Head Nerd (uncredited)
• The Demon Dog—
• Murder Can Kill You—

All TV Shows (2)

• Kiss: Through the Years2022 · as Self
• Reality Show2012 · as Mickey Wagner