David Zucker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Zucker

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 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] He and Danielle were divorced in 2019, though they had been separated for ten years before that.[6] 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:

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.[7]

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."[8] 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,[9] 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.[10]

Zucker began to focus more on politics starting in 2004 when he began working on political ads for the Republican Party.[11] In 2008, he made the political parody movie An American Carol.[12] 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.[13][14] In 2017, Zucker said that he was working on a script for a fourth Naked Gun film with Pat Proft.[15]

Environmental work Zucker has been an active supporter of Tree People since 1988 and is now the longest continuously serving board member (1990) in the organization's history.[16]

Zucker has been an advocate of solar powered and electric cars since the '90s. "I can't complain about the smog in Los Angeles if I'm contributing to it," Zucker said to the Sun Sentinel in 1990.[17]

דייוויד סמואל צוקר

(באנגלית: David Samuel Zucker; נולד ב-16 באוקטובר 1947 במילווקי, ויסקונסין שבארצות הברית) הוא במאי סרטים יהודי-אמריקאי.

צוקר ידוע בשיתוף הפעולה ארוך השנים שלו עם אחיו ג'רי וג'ים אברהמס. השלושה החלו בעבודה משותפת במופע קומי, ובהמשך יצרו יחדיו סרטים בהם "סרט מטוגן", "טיסה נעימה", וסודי ביותר!".

בין הסרטים שביים צוקר לבדו נמנים "האקדח מת מצחוק: מתוך תיקי מחלק בילוש!", "האקדח מת מצחוק ½2: ריחו של הפחד", "מת לצעוק 3", "מת לצעוק 4".

הז'אנר שעמו הוא מזוהה יותר מכל הוא פרודיה.

בין השחקנים שכיכבו בכמה מסרטיו נמנים לזלי נילסן, צ'ארלי שין ואנה פאריס.

בשנת 2019 שימש צוקר כיועץ אמנותי בסרט "המוסד" של הבמאי אלון גור אריה בו ואף הגיע לישראל להשתתף בחזרות ובצילומים.

דייוויד צוקר נשוי לדניאלה צוקר ולהם שני ילדים.

פילמוגרפיה שנה שם הסרט תסריטאי מפיק במאי 1977 סרט מטוגן Yes check.svg 1980 טיסה נעימה Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 1982 יחידה משטרתית (סדרת טלוויזיה) Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 1984 סודי ביותר! Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 1986 חטיפה נעימה Yes check.svg 1988 האקדח מת מצחוק: מתוך תיקי מחלק בילוש! Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 1991 האקדח מת מצחוק ½2: ריחו של הפחד Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 1992 Brain Donors Yes check.svg 1994 האקדח מת מצחוק ⅓33: העלבון האחרון Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 1995 אהבה בין הכרמים Yes check.svg 1996 תיכון בראש טוב Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 1996 For Goodness Sake II Yes check.svg 1998 הכדור מת מצחוק Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 2003 מת לצעוק 3 Yes check.svg 2003 תא טלפון Yes check.svg 2003 הבת של הבוס שלי Yes check.svg 2006 מת לצעוק 4 Yes check.svg 2008 סופרהירו Yes check.svg 2008 חדשות מטוגנות Yes check.svg 2008 American Carol Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 2013 מת לצעוק 5 Yes check.svg ראו גם ג'ים אברהמס ג'רי צוקר קישורים חיצוניים IMDB Logo 2016.svg דייוויד צוקר , במסד הנתונים הקולנועיים IMDb (באנגלית) Allmovie Logo.png דייוויד צוקר , באתר AllMovie (באנגלית) דייוויד צוקר , באתר Box Office Mojo (באנגלית) יניר דקל, דיוויד צוקר: "בהוליווד לא מתנהגים הכי יפה" , באתר ynet, 11 באפריל 2013 עידו רוזן, מלך הפרודיות: הבמאי של "טיסה נעימה" במסר חשוב לסאטיריקן המתחיל , באתר רשת, 11 בספטמבר 2017 אבנר שביט‏, אובמה, או.ג'יי סימפסון והגאונות הנצחית של "טיסה נעימה": ריאיון עם דיוויד צוקר , באתר וואלה! NEWS‏, 14 בספטמבר 2017 יעל שוב, ‏מה הופך בדיחה לטובה? דיוויד צוקר האגדי מסביר , באתר "Time Out ישראל", 30 ביוני 2019 יאיר רוה, ראיון עם דייוויד צוקר

ב"רדיו הקצה", 19 בספטמבר 2017 חנה בראון, ON THE SET WITH DAVID ZUCKER IN THE HOLY CITY

- ראיון על סט צילומי "המוסד", באתר הג'רוזלם פוסט, 6 בפברואר 2018 https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%99%D7%99%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Zucker

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 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] He and Danielle were divorced in 2019, though they had been separated for ten years before that.[6] 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:

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.[7]

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."[8] 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,[9] 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.[10]

Zucker began to focus more on politics starting in 2004 when he began working on political ads for the Republican Party.[11] In 2008, he made the political parody movie An American Carol.[12] 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.[13][14] In 2017, Zucker said that he was working on a script for a fourth Naked Gun film with Pat Proft.[15]

Environmental work Zucker has been an active supporter of Tree People since 1988 and is now the longest continuously serving board member (1990) in the organization's history.[16]

Zucker has been an advocate of solar powered and electric cars since the '90s. "I can't complain about the smog in Los Angeles if I'm contributing to it," Zucker said to the Sun Sentinel in 1990.[17]