Jerry Zucker (film director)
Jerry Zucker ( born March 11, 1950 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ) is an Emmy Award-nominated American screenwriter, director and producer and brother of David Zucker.
Career
Jerry Zucker began his career in the late 1960s, together with his older brother David and their friend Jim Abrahams. Together they founded Kentucky Fried Theatre, with which they bring the program Vegetables on the stage, which consists of a series of satirical sketches, plain nonsense and attacks on the American Way of Life. After unexpected success - the show is sold out for months - pulls the troops in 1969 to Los Angeles, where she continued her triumph. 1977 is the first work in Hollywood, as the sugar - brothers Abraham and the screenplay for the film Kentucky Fried Movie (directed by John Landis ) write.
The common way of three continues with similar crazy films whose typical feature is the parody whole film genres. Here for their movies they just hire the actors who previously played in the sincere cinematic role models, and let this take yourself to the arm.
Among her best-known films of this period include The Incredible Journey in a crazy airplane ( 1980), Top Secret! (1984) and The Incredible kidnapping the crazy Mrs. Stone ( 1986). Since the early 1990s, Jerry Zucker focused, as well as his brother David and Jim Abrahams, on his solo career as a director and producer. At this time, the successful trilogy of comedies was The Naked Gun, which co-produced the brothers.
After Naked Gun 33 ⅓ sugar began his solo career, first as a producer and director of First Knight, an adventure film about King Arthur and the Round Table with Sean Connery in the lead role. His last film was Rat Race in 2001.