David Zucker (director)




Not to be confused with David Zuckerman.

For the executive producer, see David W. Zucker.

























David Zucker
Born
(1947-10-16) October 16, 1947 (age 71)

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Occupation Film director, film producer, screenwriter
Years active 1976–present
Spouse(s) Danielle Ardolino (1997–present; 2 children)
Family
Jerry Zucker (brother)

David S. Zucker (born October 16, 1947) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Associated mostly with parody comedies, Zucker is recognized as the director and writer of the critically successful 1980 film Airplane! as well as being the creator of The Naked Gun franchise and for directing Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4.




Contents






  • 1 Personal life


  • 2 Career


  • 3 Recurring cast members


  • 4 Filmography


    • 4.1 Films


    • 4.2 Television




  • 5 Songwriter


  • 6 References


  • 7 External links





Personal life


Zucker was born to a Jewish family[1] in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Charlotte A. (Lefstein) and Burton C. Zucker, who was a real estate developer.[2][3] He graduated from Shorewood High School.[4] In 1997, Zucker married Dr. Danielle (Ardolino) Zucker, with whom he has two children, Charles and Sarah.[5] His younger brother, Jerry, is his filmmaking partner. The Zucker brothers have a sister, Susan Breslau.


When asked in a September 2014 interview by the BBC if he believes in God, Zucker replied:


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Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there's much more evidence that there is a God than that there isn't. I don't believe that Mother Teresa and Hitler go to the same place. I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.[6]



Career


Zucker's movies include The Kentucky Fried Movie in 1977, Ruthless People in 1986, The Naked Gun in 1988, The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear in 1991, BASEketball in 1998, Scary Movie 3 in 2003, and its sequel Scary Movie 4 in 2006. Out of 18 works he is associated with, Phone Booth, which he produced in 2002, is the only non-comedic film.


He co-directed several films including Airplane! in 1980 and Top Secret! in 1984; along with his brother, Jerry, and Jim Abrahams, the trio make up the ZAZ team of directors. He has also worked with Pat Proft (with whom he first teamed up on the Naked Gun show Police Squad!) and Craig Mazin (writer of three of the five Scary Movies).


ZAZ and Proft helped develop the parody genre of films, in which jokes are spit out with rapid-fire, using puns, physical humor, wit, and double entendres. Some of the veteran actors of ZAZ's vision of parody include Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, Charlie Sheen, Julie Hagerty, and Anna Faris (Faris starred in four of the Scary Movie series).


Looking back on his career in 2009, Leslie Nielsen said the best film he appeared in was The Naked Gun, and that Zucker was his favorite director to work with. Nielsen said of him, "He came to me one time and said, 'Leslie, I'll never make you do anything that is not funny.' And he kept his word."[7] Most consider his greatest work to be Airplane!, which has brought on many accolades (including preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress).


In his movies, his mother, Charlotte was often cast in a small bit part (like the lady trying to put on make-up in Airplane!, one of the Lucille Ball impersonators in Rat Race, and Vincent Ludwig's secretary, Dominique, in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!).


Zucker has stated that his dream project is a Davy Crockett biographical film. He mentioned his enthusiasm for the Davy Crockett project during an interview in 2006 for the feature-length documentary, That Guy: The Legacy of Dub Taylor,[8] on the life of Dub Taylor, which has received support from the Taylor Family and many of Dub's previous co-workers, including Bill Cosby, Peter Fonda, Dixie Carter, Don Collier, Cheryl Rogers-Barnett, as well as others. The project had its World Premiere at Taylor's Childhood Hometown of Augusta, Georgia on April 14, 2007. The project is from Executive Producers Stokes and James Kicklighter from JamesWorks Entertainment and Professor Pauper Productions. Part of his interview is on YouTube.[9]


Zucker began to focus more on politics starting in 2004 when he began working on political ads for the Republican Party.[10] In 2008, he made the political parody movie An American Carol.[11] In 2015, he made a video he called Side Effects attacking President Barack Obama for the Iran nuclear deal in the form of a parody prescription drug ad.[12][13]


In 2016, Zucker said that he was working on a script for a fourth Naked Gun film with Pat Proft.[14]



Recurring cast members


Among all of his directed and/or produced parody films, Zucker had frequently cast the late Leslie Nielsen.



























































































































































































































Actor
Airplane!
Ruthless People
Naked Gun: From
the Files of
Police Squad!
The Naked Gun
2½: The
Smell of Fear
BASEketball
My Boss'
Daughter
Scary Movie 3
Scary Movie 4
An American
Carol

Anthony Anderson






NoN
NoN

Carmen Electra





NoN

NoN

Anna Faris






NoN
NoN

Regina Hall






NoN
NoN

Kevin Hart






NoN
NoN

George Kennedy


NoN
NoN





Michael Madsen





NoN

NoN

Jenny McCarthy




NoN

NoN


Edward Moss


NoN



NoN
NoN

Leslie Nielsen
NoN

NoN
NoN


NoN
NoN
NoN

Priscilla Presley


NoN
NoN





Bill Pullman

NoN





NoN

Simon Rex






NoN
NoN
NoN

Molly Shannon





NoN

NoN

Charlie Sheen






NoN
NoN

O. J. Simpson


NoN
NoN





Ed Williams


NoN
NoN







Filmography



Films














































































































































































































































Year
 Film
Director
Writer
Producer
Actor
 Role
 Notes
1977
The Kentucky Fried Movie
 No
 Yes
 No
 Yes
 Man / Technician #2 / Grunwald
1980
Airplane!
 Yes
 Yes
 Executive
 Yes
 Ground Crewman #2
1984
Top Secret!
 Yes
 Yes
 Executive
 Yes
 German Soldier in Prop Room
1986
Ruthless People
 Yes
 No
 No
 No

1988
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
 Yes
 Yes
 Executive
 No

1991
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
 Yes
 Yes
 No
 Yes
 Davy Crockett
1992
Brain Donors
 No
 No
 Executive
 No

1993
For Goodness Sake
 Yes
 Yes
 Yes
 No
Short
1994
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
 No
 Yes
 Yes
 Yes
 Teleprompter Guy
1995
A Walk in the Clouds
 No
 No
 Yes
 No


Your Studio and You
 No
 No
 No
 Yes
 Himself
 Short
1996
High School High
 No
 Yes
 Yes
 No


For Goodness Sake II
 No
 No
 Executive
 No
Short
1998
BASEketball
 Yes
 Yes
 Yes
 Yes
 Man with Shooting Hot Dog
 Also executive music producer
2002
Phone Booth
 No
 No
 Yes
 No

2003
My Boss's Daughter
 Yes
 No
 No
 No


Scary Movie 3
 Yes
 No
 No
 No

2006
Scary Movie 4
 Yes
 No
 No
 Yes
 Zoltar (voice)
2008
The Onion Movie
 No
 No
 Yes
 No


Superhero Movie
 No
 No
 Yes
 No


An American Carol
 Yes
 Yes
 Yes
 No

2013
Scary Movie 5
 No
 Yes
 Yes
 Yes
 Packer Fan
 Also assistant director and reshoots
TBA
Spaghetti Versus Noodle
 No
 Yes
 No
 No



Television








































































Year
 Name
 Director
 Writer
 Executive Producer
 Actor
 Role
 Notes
1972
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
 No
 No
 No
 Yes
 Performer
 TV Series; part as Kentucky Fried Theatre in one episode
1974
The Midnight Special
 No
 No
 No
 Yes
 Performer
 TV Series; part as Kentucky Fried Theatre in one episode
1982
Police Squad!
 Yes
 Yes
 Yes
 No
Creator TV Series, 6 episodes (director and writer pilot)
1987
Our Planet Tonight
 No
 No
 Yes
 No
TV Movie
2000
H.U.D.
 Yes
 Yes
 No
 No
TV Movie

Absolutely True
 No
 No
 Yes
 No
TV Series


Songwriter




  • Spend This Night With Me (Performed by Val Kilmer in Top Secret!, 1984)


  • I Guess I'm Just Screwed (Performed by Colleen Fitzpatrick in The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, 1991)



  • It's Your Birthday (Performed by more actors in High School High, 1996)



References





  1. ^ Desser, David; Friedman, Lester D. American Jewish Filmmakers. p. 166. ISBN 9780252071539..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "David Zucker Biography (1947-)". www.filmreference.com.


  3. ^ "Charlotte A. Zucker's Obituary on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.


  4. ^ "25 years and still laughing: 'Airplane!' maintains its cruising altitude with a non-stop zany attitude" Archived April 30, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 11, 2005. Accessed September 17, 2007. "The event is in honor of the volunteer service and philanthropy of Louise Abrahams Yaffe and her son Jim Abrahams, who wrote and directed "Airplane!" with fellow Shorewood High School and University of Wisconsin–Madison graduates David and Jerry Zucker."


  5. ^ Stein, Jeannine (August 27, 1997). "Home Weddings Add a Touch of the Heart". Los Angeles Times.


  6. ^ Hennigan, Adam. "Calling the Shots: No.11: David Zucker". BBC. Retrieved 23 March 2017.


  7. ^ McEvoy, Colin (March 28, 2009). "Leslie Nielsen here? Surely you jest! MOVIE STAR SITS DOWN with students to kick off DeSales festival. And don't call him Shirley". The Express-Times. p. A1.


  8. ^ "That Guy: The Legacy of Dub Taylor". Archived from the original on September 29, 2007.


  9. ^ Behind the Scenes of "That Guy: The Legacy of Dub Taylor" on YouTube


  10. ^ Ballon, Marc (October 5, 2006). "Comedy director David Zucker goes to GOP? You can't be serious!". Jewish Journal. Retrieved 1 September 2017.


  11. ^ Corliss, Richard. "Top 10 Worst Christmas Movies" – via entertainment.time.com.


  12. ^ "Airplane! Director's Attempt to Satirize Iran Deal Is Laughably Bad". www.mediaite.com.


  13. ^ "Director David Zucker Targets 'Idiotic' Iran Deal With Satire". September 18, 2015.


  14. ^ Skubish, Jake (March 30, 2017). "Director David Zucker talks "Airplane!", comedy, getting his start on campus". Daily Cardinal. Retrieved June 12, 2017.




External links





  • David Zucker on IMDb


  • David Zucker at Discogs

  • GreenCine interview

  • Jewish Journal interview

  • Weekly Standard interview











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