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David Samuel Zucker (born October 16, 1947) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Associated mostly with parody comedies, Zucker is recognized for collaborating with Jim Abrahams and his brother Jerry as part of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, with whom he wrote and directed the 1980 film Airplane! and created The Naked Gun franchise.
Jim Abrahams, a film director and writer behind hit slapstick comedies like “Airplane!,” “Hot Shots!,” the “Naked Gun” series and more, died Tuesday, his son Joseph confirmed to Variety.
Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker (abbreviated to ZAZ) was an American comedy filmmaking trio consisting of Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker who specialised in writing slapstick comedy films during the 1980s. Members of the team have often collaborated with writer Pat Proft.
Assembled by Zucker, his brother, Jerry Zucker, and Abrahams — who formed the era-defining ZAZ comedy team — from comprehensive cast and crew interviews conducted by pop culture journalist ...
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Written by Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker — the three guys known as ZAZ at their Hollywood height — the memoir covers the early years of the friends, who grew up together in ...
“Airplane!” creators David Zucker, Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams talk to TODAY.com about their new book, “Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of ‘Airplane!'"
Landis was recommended to direct National Lampoon's Animal House in 1978 based on his work with The Kentucky Fried Movie. [5] The film's writers were the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, who subsequently wrote and directed Airplane!, Top Secret! and the Police Squad! television series and its film spin-offs, The Naked Gun films.