Adam Rifkin was a 1984 graduate of The Chicago Academy for the Arts.
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.He also acted in a movie in 2008 National Lampoon's Homo Erectus he was acting as a wimpy caveman called Ishbo who everyone calls an idiot who invented things like pants a visor and ladder etc. which the tribe found that it would never be used and is completely useless he is the main charectar in the film.
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.
