# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-zucker-q452794
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:24:47.893Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-zucker-q452794"
name: "David Zucker"
slug: "david-zucker-q452794"
description: "David Samuel Zucker is an American filmmaker. Associated mostly with parody comedies, Zucker is recognized for collaborating with Jim Abrahams and his brother Jerry as part of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, with whom he wrote and directed the 1980 film Airplane! and created The Naked Gun franchise. As a solo filmmaker, Zucker has also directed Scary Movie 3 (2003) and Scary Movie 4 (2006)."
tagline: "American film director, screenwriter, producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Zucker_at_Improv_Boston.jpg?width=1200"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1947-10-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump