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This article is about the American director and screenwriter; for the Czech ice hockey player see David Zucker (ice hockey player)

David Zucker (born October 16, 1947 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) is an American director and screenwriter and member of the filmmaking trio ZAZ .

Career

David Zucker began his career in the late 1960s with his brother Jerry Zucker and their friend Jim Abrahams with the establishment of the Kentucky Fried Theater , as she is a program called Vegetables on the stage brought that consists of a series of satirical sketches , sheer nonsense and attacks on the American way of life . After unexpected success - the show was sold out for months - the troupe moved to Los Angeles in 1969 , where their triumphant advance continued. 1977 saw the first work in Hollywood , when Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker wrote the screenplay for the film Kentucky Fried Movie ( director : John Landis ).

The common path of the three continued with similarly crazy films, whose typical feature is the parody of entire film genres . In doing so, they engaged the actors for their films who previously played in the serious cinematic role models, and let them fool themselves. Her best-known films from this period include The Incredible Journey on a Crazy Plane (1980), Top Secret! (1984) and The Incredible Abduction of Mad Mrs. Stone (1986).

From the late 1980s , David Zucker concentrated more on his solo career, but his comedies High School High or Die Sportskanonen could not repeat his earlier successes. It wasn't until 2003 that Zucker was successful again around the world when he was signed for the third part of the Scary Movie series. He hired Pat Proft as a screenwriter, with whom he had previously worked on the Naked Cannon series. The fourth part, Scary Movie 4 , was also extremely successful, the fifth part Scary Movie 5 was released in 2013. In 2008 Superhero Movie was released .

Filmography

• 1977: Kentucky Fried Movie (Screenplay and Actor *)
• 1980: The Incredible Journey in a Crazy Plane (Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer and Actor *)
• 1982: The Naked Pistol ( TV series ) (director, screenplay and executive producer)
• 1984: Top Secret! (Director, screenplay and actor *)
• 1986: The Incredible Abduction of Mad Mrs. Stone (Director)
• 1988: The Naked Cannon (Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer and Actor *)
• 1991: Die nackte Kanone 2½ (director, screenplay and actor *)
• 1992: Brain Donors (executive producer)
• 1993: For Goodness Sake (Director, Writer, and Producer)
• 1994: Die Nackte Kanone 33⅓ (screenplay, producer and actor *)
• 1995: So Close to Heaven (Producer)
• 1996: For Goodness Sake II (producer)
• 1996: High School High (writer and producer)
• 1998: Die Sportskanonen (director, screenplay and actor *)
• 2002: Don't hang up! (Producer)
• 2003: Party Alarm - Stay Away From My Daughter (Director)
• 2003: Scary Movie 3 (Director)
• 2006: Scary Movie 4 (Director, Executive Producer and Actor *)
• 2008: Superhero Movie (producer)
• 2008: News Movie (producer)
• 2008: Big Fat Important Movie ( An American Carol , Director, Writer, Producer)
• 2013: Scary Movie 5 (producer, screenplay)

* Zucker mostly had small cameo appearances in his films , that is, he was either only seen briefly or only had a few lines of text to speak.

Web links

• David Zucker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• "Don't call him Shirley" ( Memento from December 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) - detailed interview (August 15, 2006, English)