David Zucker Filmography

Superhero Movie

Crew: Producer

Actors: Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, Kevin Hart, Brent Spiner

Synopsis: After spoofing disaster films in Airplane!, police shows in The Naked Gun, and Hollywood horrors in Scary Movie 3 and 4, producer David Zucker sets his satirical sights on the superhero genre with this anarchic comedy lampooning everything from Spider-Man to X-Men and Superman Returns. Shortly Read More

The Onion Movie

Crew: Producer

Actors: Len Cariou

Synopsis: America's most popular satirical newspaper makes the leap from the printed page to the silver screen in this political comedy that explores what happens when journalistic integrity is compromised by corporate sensibility. Onion News anchorman Norm Archer (Len Cariou) is s principled journalist, so Read More

The Andromeda Strain

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Benjamin Bratt, Eric McCormack, Christa Miller, Daniel Dae Kim, Viola Davis

Synopsis: Adapted from the best-selling novel by author Michael Crichton, director Mikael Salomon's made for television mini-series follows a group of specialized scientists as they race to cure a fast-spreading plague. A U.S. military satellite has crashed near a small Utah town, unleashing a deadly Read More

An American Carol

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Kelsey Grammer, Trace Adkins

Synopsis: Ebenezer Scrooge gets the parody treatment from veteran writer/director David Zucker (Airplane, Scary Movie 4) with this comedy starring Kelsey Grammer as the titular haunted character whose taught a life lesson by three ghosts on Christmas Eve, including country music star Trace Adkins as the Read More

The Company

Crew: Co-Executive Producer

Actors: Chris O'Donnell, Michael Keaton, Alfred Molina, Rory Cochrane, Alessandro Nivola, Natascha McElhone, Misel Maticevic

Synopsis: Chris O'Donnell, Michael Keaton, and Alfred Molina star in this television mini-series event adapted from the book by Robert Littell and brought to the screen by cinematographer-turned-director Mikael Salomon (Salem's Lot and Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor). An epic thriller that traces the Read More

Scary Movie 4

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Craig Bierko, Simon Rex, Anthony Anderson

Synopsis: Spoof series torch-bearer and Airplane! mastermind David Zucker steps back into the captain's chair for yet another round of cinematic shenanigans in the latest installment of the Scary Movie franchise, this time mocking such frightful blockbusters as Saw, War of the Worlds, The Village, and The Grudge Read More

Scary Movie 3

Crew: Director

Actors: Anna Faris, Anthony Anderson, Leslie Nielsen, Camryn Manheim, Simon Rex

Synopsis: While star Anna Faris returns for the third film in the Scary Movie series, the power behind the camera has shifted from the Wayans brothers to one of the Zucker brothers. The Zucker in question is David Zucker, and he's brought along his partner in movie-parody crime, Leslie Nielsen. This time Read More

My Boss's Daughter

Crew: Director

Actors: Ashton Kutcher, Tara Reid, Jeffrey Tambor, Andy Richter, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: Anarchic comedy veteran David Zucker directs hot young thing of 2003 Ashton Kutcher in the fast-paced romantic comedy My Boss's Daughter. Kutcher plays rookie executive Tom Stansfield, who wants to impress his demanding boss, Jack Taylor (Terence Stamp), and win the heart of said boss' Read More

Phone Booth

Crew: Producer

Actors: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell

Synopsis: One man's life is thrown into turmoil by picking up a telephone in this claustrophobic thriller. Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) is a brash, cynical, and self-centered public relations man who juggles a busy career with both a wife, Kelly (Radha Mitchell), and a mistress, Pamela (Katie Holmes). Stu Read More

BASEketball

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Yasmine Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: David Zucker directed this slapstick sports comedy starring South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Competing two-on-two against some basketball jocks, goofballs Joe Cooper (Parker) and Doug Remer (Stone) attempt to win by devising new rules while they play. Thus is born the bizarre game Read More

High School High

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: John Neville, Jon Lovitz, Tia Carrere, Louise Fletcher, Mekhi Phifer, Malinda Williams

Synopsis: In this comic send-up of dramas set in urban schools (such as Lean on Me and Dangerous Minds), Jon Lovitz plays Richard Clark, a teacher who is persuaded to give up his position at Wellington Academy, an upscale private school (where the receptionist cheerfully answers calls with the question "Are Read More

A Walk in the Clouds

Crew: Producer

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Anthony Quinn, Giancarlo Giannini, Angélica Aragón

Synopsis: In this atmospheric romantic drama, Keanu Reeves plays Paul Sutton, who has just returned home from a stretch in the Army during World War II. Still reeling from the horrors of war, Paul wants to settle down and start a farm, but his wife Betty (Debra Messing), whom he met and impulsively married Read More

The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson, Fred Ward

Synopsis: The further misadventures of bumbling Los Angeles police Lieutenant Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) are chronicled in this third installment in the popular Naked Gun comedy series. This by-the-numbers entry begins with Drebin as a happily retired house-husband called back into action when an evil Read More

Brain Donors

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Turturro, Bob Nelson, Mel Smith, Nancy Marchand, John Savident

Synopsis: Brain Donors is a game attempt to redo the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera in a contemporary setting. John Turturro plays the "Groucho" character, a shifty lawyer (he's even given a Grouchoesque three-barrelled moniker). Bob Nelson is the "Harpo" counterpart, a puckish handyman. And Mel Smith Read More

The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson, Robert Goulet

Synopsis: Leslie Nielsen returns as the intrepid (and accident-prone) Lt. Frank Drebin in Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, "un film de David Zucker." This second feature film from the "Police Squad!" series finds Drebin as a guest at a White House dinner, receiving an award for shooting his 1,000th drug Read More

The Naked Gun

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, George Kennedy, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban, O.J. Simpson

Synopsis: We know we're in a 1988 film when we're invited to laugh at O.J. Simpson in an opening slapstick sequence. We can also pinpoint the year of production when hard-nosed cop Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), during a scuffle with the world's leading dictators, wipes the wine-colored birthmark off the Read More

Ruthless People

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Anita Morris

Synopsis: The last film to be co-directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, Ruthless People stars Bette Midler (capitalizing on her comeback performance in Down and Out in Beverly Hills) as Barbara, a spoiled rich woman who is kidnapped by the kindly Ken and Sandy Kessler (Judge Reinhold and Helen Slater Read More

Top Secret!

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter, Songwriter

Actors: Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Christopher Villiers, Omar Sharif, Peter Cushing

Synopsis: The second of Zucker-Abraham-Zucker's theatrical-feature spoofs (Airplane was the first, discounting the patchwork Kentucky Fried Movie), Top Secret! lampoons practically every film genre. Specifically, however, this is a hybrid of an "Elvis" movie and a World War II "underground resistance" Read More

Police Squad! Help Wanted!

Crew: Director

Synopsis: At times so funny that it hurts, Police Squad! Help Wanted! consists of the first three episodes of the legendary TV cop-show spoof Police Squad!. Leslie Nielsen stars as deadpanned, dimwitted Lt. Frank Drebin, Alan North is Drebin's assistant, Captain Hocken, and Rex Hamilton costars as Abraham Read More

Airplane!

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack

Synopsis: This spoof of the Airport series of disaster movies relies on ridiculous sight gags, groan-inducing dialogue, and deadpan acting -- a comedy style that would be imitated for the next 20 years. Airplane! pulls out all the clichés as alcoholic pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays), who's developed a fear Read More

The Kentucky Fried Movie

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Donald Sutherland, George Lazenby, Henry Gibson, Bill Bixby, Tony Dow

Synopsis: Comedy writers David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams of Airplane and The Naked Gun fame got their start at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, when they formed a theatrical group known as The Kentucky Fried Theater. The Kentucky Fried Movie is based on the KFT's gag-filled theatrical skits. Read More