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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...
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  • Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker (abbreviated to ZAZ) were an American comedy filmmaking trio consisting of Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker...
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    supernatural drama film Ghost. He and his older brother, David Zucker, collaborated on several films. Zucker was born to a Jewish family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
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  • broadcast on the ABC network in 1982. It was created by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, starring Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin. A spoof of...
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  • Airplane! (category Films directed by David Zucker)
    disaster comedy film written and directed by Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker in their directorial debuts, and produced by Jon Davison. It stars...
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  • new protagonist without contradicting what came before. In March 2015, David Zucker stated that he was offered a producing role on the project, but had declined...
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  • In arithmetic geometry, the Cox–Zucker machine is an algorithm created by David A. Cox and Steven Zucker. This algorithm determines whether a given set...
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  • David Zucker is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. David Zucker may also refer to: David Zucker (ice hockey) (born 1987), Czech ice...
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    Franklin "Frank" Drebin, and was co-created/written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker. Parodying police procedurals, the series featured the...
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  • The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (category Films directed by David Zucker)
    simply The Naked Gun) is a 1988 American crime comedy film directed by David Zucker, and produced and released by Paramount Pictures. The film stars Leslie...
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  • philanthropist Arianne Zucker, American actress Craig Zucker, American politician David Zucker (filmmaker), American film director Gerhard Zucker, German businessman...
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  • Top Secret! (category Films directed by David Zucker)
    1984 action comedy film written and directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker (ZAZ) and Martyn Burke. It stars Val Kilmer (in his film debut...
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  • the movie Airplane! (1980). Director David Zucker preserved this by having Nielsen play the straight man. Zucker based his character on Lee Marvin and...
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  • An American Carol (category Films directed by David Zucker)
    territories) is a 2008 American satirical comedy film directed by David Zucker and written by Zucker, Myrna Sokoloff and Lewis Friedman. Using the framework of...
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  • Scary Movie 3 (category Films directed by David Zucker)
    Scary Movie 3 is a 2003 American parody film directed by David Zucker. It is the sequel to Scary Movie 2 and is the third film in the Scary Movie film...
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  • Ruthless People (category Films directed by David Zucker)
    People is a 1986 American black comedy film directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker and written by Dale Launer. It stars Danny DeVito, Bette...
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  • High School High (category Films with screenplays by David Zucker)
    occasionally funny spoof cowritten by David Zucker (The Naked Gun)", adding that "despite a steady stream of such typical Zucker sight gags, this parody’s pace...
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  • Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (category Films with screenplays by David Zucker)
    by Peter Segal (in his directorial debut) and written by Pat Proft, David Zucker (who also directed the previous two films in the series) and Robert LoCash...
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  • Charlotte Ann Zucker (née Lefstein; March 10, 1921 – September 5, 2007) was an American actress. She was the mother of filmmakers David and Jerry Zucker, and appeared...
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  • Scary Movie 5 (category Films with screenplays by David Zucker)
    parody film directed by Malcolm D. Lee, written by David Zucker and Pat Proft, and produced by Zucker and Phil Dornfeld. It is the standalone sequel to...
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  • BASEketball (category Films directed by David Zucker)
    BASEketball is a 1998 American sports comedy film cowritten and directed by David Zucker, starring South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and costarring...
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  • Superhero Movie (category Films produced by David Zucker)
    written and directed by Craig Mazin, produced by Robert K. Weiss and David Zucker, and starring Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, and Leslie...
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  • The Kentucky Fried Movie (category Films with screenplays by David Zucker)
    Kentucky Fried Movie. The film's writers were the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, who subsequently wrote and directed Airplane!, Top Secret...
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  • Scary Movie 4 (category Films directed by David Zucker)
    Scary Movie 4 is a 2006 American parody film directed by David Zucker, written by Jim Abrahams, Craig Mazin, and Pat Proft, and produced by Mazin and Robert...
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  • The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (category Films directed by David Zucker)
    have cameo roles. David Zucker returns from the first entry as director and screenwriter of the film. Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker serve as executive...
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  • who wrote and directed the original Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker) had no involvement with this sequel. Paramount, having faced...
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    spoof movies that he co-wrote and produced with brothers Jerry Zucker and David Zucker, such as Airplane! (for which he was nominated for a BAFTA Award...
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  • Phone Booth (film) (category Films produced by David Zucker)
    psychological thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by David Zucker and Gil Netter, written by Larry Cohen and starring Colin Farrell, Forest...
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    Jeffrey Adam Zucker (born April 9, 1965) is an American businessman and media executive. Zucker was the president of CNN Worldwide from 2013 to 2022. He...
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  • 1998. Proft continued to work with David Zucker, and in 2013 announced he was working on a parody film with Zucker involving the Jason Bourne and Mission:...
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