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David Zucker

American film director, screenwriter, producer

1.39body-of-work score · ranked #678 of 2631 directors · 4 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
October 16, 1947 · Milwaukee
Nationality
United States
Work
film director, film producer, film screenwriter, actor
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of David Zucker
Beaten man · CC BY-SA 4.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    Airplane!

    1980 · United States · comedy, romance

    National Film Registry (inducted 2010) · Empire 500 (2008) #368 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

    0.684 citations
  2. 2
    The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

    1988 · United States · comedy

    NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Kehr's annual top 10 1988 #9 · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.433 citations
  3. 3
    Ruthless People

    1986 · United States · comedy, crime

    NYT Best 1,000 Movies

    0.171 citation
  4. 4
    Top Secret!

    1984 · United States / United Kingdom · thriller, comedy

    Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.111 citation

Complete filmography

All 11 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.