David Zucker (born October 16 1947 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American movie director. He graduated from Shorewood High School.

Zucker is married to Danielle Zucker, with whom he has two children. He is the brother of filmmaker Jerry Zucker.

Some of his movies include The Kentucky Fried Movie in 1977, The Naked Gun in 1988, The Smell of Fear in 1991, BASEketball in 1998, Scary Movie 3 in 2003, and its sequel Scary Movie 4 in 2006.

He co-directed several films including Airplane! in 1980 and Top Secret! in 1984; along with his brother, Jerry Zucker, 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 four Scary Movies).

ZAZ and Proft are renowned to have created 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 (who has starred in all four of the Scary Movie series). In his movies, his mother is often cast in a small bit part.

David Zucker has stated that his dream project is a Davey Crockett biopic.

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