David S. Zucker (born October 16, 1947) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Associated mostly with parody comedies, Zucker is recognized as the director and writer of the critically successful 1980 film Airplane! as well as being the creator of The Naked Gun franchise and for directing Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4.

Filmography

• 2025The Naked Gun — Original Film Writer
• Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty — David Zucker
• 2013Scary Movie 5 — Packer Fan (uncredited), Writer, Producer
• 2008An American Carol — Producer, Director, Writer
• 2008Superhero Movie — Producer
• 2008The Onion Movie — Producer
• 2006An Inconvenient Truth — Thanks
• 2006Scary Movie 4 — Zoltar (voice), Director
• 2003My Boss's Daughter — Director, Producer
• 2003Phone Booth — Producer
• 2003Scary Movie 3 — Director
• 2000H.U.D. — Director, Writer, Executive Producer
• 1998BASEketball — Man with Shooting Hot Dog (uncredited), Screenplay, Producer, Director
• 1996High School High — Producer, Screenplay
• 1995A Walk in the Clouds — Producer
• 1995Your Studio and You — David Zucker
• 1994Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult — Teleprompter Guy, Writer, Producer
• 1993For Goodness Sake — Director
• 1992Brain Donors — Executive Producer
• 1991The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear — Davy Crockett, Director, Writer, Original Series Creator
• 1988The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! — Writer, Executive Producer, Director
• 1986Ruthless People — Director
• 1984Top Secret! — German Soldier in Prop Room (uncredited), Screenplay, Director, Executive Producer
• Police Squad! — Producer, Writer, Director, Creator
• 1980Airplane! — Ground Crewman #2, Director, Executive Producer, Writer
• 1977The Kentucky Fried Movie — Man (segment "His New Car") / Technician #2 (segment "Eyewitness News") / Grunwald (segment "Courtroom"), Various, Writer
• Star of Malta — Director, Writer

Appearances as themselves (7)

• Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! — Self - Filmmaker
• 2025When We Went MAD! — Self
• Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party — Self
• The History of Comedy — Self
• 2016O.J.: Made in America — Self
• 2015Kareem: Minority of One — Self
• I Love the '70s: Volume 2 — Self