Movies by Jerry Zucker
As part of the cast:
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Directors: Zucker, Abrahams & Zucker (2001)
Cast: Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker …
As part of a series profiling some of Hollywood's most important directors, this documentary follows the careers of David Zucker, his brother Jerry and their friend Jim Abrahams. In…
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The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
Cast: Bill Bixby, Donald Sutherland, David Zucker …
Directed by: John Landis
John Landis's groundbreaking comedy features a lewd, loosely connected collection of skits that spoof blaxploitation films, news shows, porno movies, TV commercials, kung fu flicks and more.
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Rat Race (2001)
Cast: John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson, Whoopi Goldberg …
Directed by: Jerry Zucker
Loosely based on It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, this comedic adventure starts with six couples assembled at the Las Vegas casino of Donald Sinclair and ends at a train station in New…
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First Knight (1995)
Cast: Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond …
Directed by: Jerry Zucker
Agonizing choices confront King Arthur, Lady Guinevere and Sir Lancelot in this lyrical retelling of the legend of Camelot. With Guinevere torn between her husband and Lancelot, he must…
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Ghost (1990)
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg …
Directed by: Jerry Zucker
Gothamites Sam and Molly see their romance shattered when a street thug kills Sam during a mugging. But love endures beyond the grave when a spectral Sam learns that Molly is in danger, and…
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Top Secret! (1984)
Cast: Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Peter Cushing …
Directed by: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker …
Following the success of their first feature, Airplane! the directing team of Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker return with this farce about American rock idol Nick Rivers (Val…
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Police Squad!: The Complete Series (1982)
Cast: William Conrad, Lorne Greene, Joyce Brothers …
Directed by: Georg Stanford Brown, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker …
As the inspiration for the famous Naked Gun movies, this original slapstick series from the Zucker brothers is bursting with non sequiturs and sight gags that parody the labored lives of law…
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Airplane! (1980)
Cast: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges …
Directed by: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker …
In this joke-a-second parody of disaster movies, traumatized former combat pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays) is forced to land a passenger plane when food poisoning strikes the crew and…