David Zucker

David Zucker was born in Milwaukee in 1947 and grew up in Shorewood, Wisconsin, where his father was a property developer; his mother taught English before becoming an actress. With his younger brother and Jim Abrahams, who came from the same high school, he founded a small theatre in 1971 in Madison, around the University of Wisconsin, where the trio performed their own parodies. They left for Los Angeles in 1972, wrote a sketch film in 1977 and directed together from 1980; the trio split up in the nineties, and Zucker then directed alone.

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• CinemaThe Naked GunDavid Zucker · 1988Cinema