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.

Filmography

• 2026Last Train to Fortune — Director, Producer
• 2025Airports — Editor
• 2025BFFs — Writer, Producer
• 2023The Adam Rifkin Film Festival — Director
• 2022Fast, Cheap and Out of Sight: Making 'The Invisible Maniac'
• 2021Willy's Wonderland — Executive Producer
• 2018The Intervention
• 2018The Last Movie Star — Producer, Writer, Director
• 2016Director's Cut — Adam Rifkin, Director, Producer
• 2015Shooting the Warwicks — Mickey Wagner, Director, Writer
• 2015Wrestling Isn't Wrestling — Theater Audience Member
• 2014Giuseppe Makes a Movie — Producer, Cinematography, Writer, Director
• Reality Show — Mickey Wagner, Script, Director, Creator
• 2011Chillerama — Miles Munson (segment "Wadzilla"), Director, Writer, Executive Producer
• 2010Knucklehead — Writer
• Look: The Series — Creator
• 2007Garbanzo Gas — Producer
• 2007Homo Erectus — Ishbo, Director, Writer
• 2007Look — Director, Writer
• 2007Underdog — Novel, Screenplay, Story
• 2006Jacuzzi Rooms — Producer
• 2006Zoom — Screenplay, Screenstory
• 2005Grandpa — Producer
• 2004Actor — Producer
• 2004Babysitter — Producer
• 2002Night at the Golden Eagle — Man in Private Booth (uncredited), Writer, Director, Producer
• 2001Without Charlie — Norman, Director, Writer
• 2000Welcome to Hollywood — Adam Rifkin, Director, Writer
• 1999Detroit Rock City — It's Raining Men Billboard Model (uncredited), Director
• 1999Touch Me in the Morning — Producer
• 1998Denial — Reuben, Director, Writer
• 1998Small Soldiers — Screenplay
• 1998Susan's Plan — Gambler #1
• 1997Bone Chillers: Art Intimidates Life — Director, Writer
• 1997MouseHunt — Screenplay
• Bone Chillers — Writer, Teleplay, Director, Creator
• 1996Bone Chillers: Frankenturkey — Director, Writer
• 1994The Chase — Director, Screenplay
• 1993Bikini Squad — Singing Teacher
• 1993Hot Shots! Part Deux — Makeup Effects
• 1993Psycho Cop Returns — Man with Video Camera, Director
• 1993The Flesh Merchant — Man in Bondage Room
• 1992Last Dance — Mark
• 1992The Nutt House — Director
• 1991Bikini Island — Desk Boy
• 1991The Dark Backward — Rufus Bing, Director, Writer
• 1990Disturbed — Gary
• 1990The Invisible Maniac — Screenplay, Director, Story
• 1989Going Overboard — Croaker / Miss Spain, Other, Co-Producer
• 1989Never on Tuesday — William (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 1989Tale of Two Sisters — Director
• 1984Sixteen Candles — Head Nerd (uncredited)
• 1975The Burglar From Out Of The Dishwasher — Director, Writer, Director of Photography
• A Cartoon That I Made That's Almost Totally Blurry — Director, Writer, Camera Operator
• A Pseudo-Intellectual Film — Director, Writer, Camera Operator
• Armageddon — Camera Operator, Director, Writer
• Canned Rabbi And Other Shorts — Director, Writer, Camera Operator
• Cornstawker — Director, Writer, Camera Operator
• Lyclops — Producer, Set Decoration, Special Effects, Makeup Artist, Camera Operator, Sound, Director, Writer
• Monster BBQ — Director, Camera Operator, Writer
• Murder Can Kill You — Camera Operator, Props, Producer, Animation, Costumer, Editor, Director, Makeup Artist, Writer
• Oh My — Director, Camera Operator, Writer
• Pervis Proves His Worth — Director, Writer
• Pork And Beans And Other Shorts — Director, Writer, Camera Operator
• Shuffle Shuffle Step Step — Writer, Director, Camera Operator
• The Demon Dog — Director, Writer, Camera Operator
• The Lady Giant — Director, Camera Operator, Producer, Writer
• The Paperboy Crimes — Director, Camera Operator, Props, Writer
• Toad — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• Untitled Atomic Bomb Frankenstein Film — Director, Writer, Camera Operator
• Untitled Film Ephemera Montage — Director, Writer, Camera Operator
• Untitled Man Goes To Work — Director, Camera Operator, Writer
• You Are About To Witness A Crime — Director, Camera Operator, Writer

Appearances as themselves (13)

• 2024Sharksploitation — Self
• Kiss: Through the Years — Self
• 2020I Am Burt Reynolds — Self - Interviewee
• 2020Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness — Self
• 2020Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi — Self
• 2017A Taboo Identity — Himself
• 2017Habeas Corpus: The Making of 'Psycho Cop Returns' — Self
• 2017To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story — Self
• 2016X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All Time — Self
• 2009Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema — Self
• 2009Tales from the Script — Self
• 2008Starz Inside: In the Gutter — Self
• 2001Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy — Self