Jim Abrahams

Jim Abrahams

1944-05-10 Shorewood, Wisconsin, USA 26 Credits

Biography

Jim Abrahams (May 10, 1944 – November 26, 2024) was an American movie director and writer. Abrahams was born in Shorewood, Wisconsin, to a Jewish family, and attended Shorewood High School. He was known for the spoof movies that he co-wrote and produced with brothers Jerry Zucker and David Zucker, such as Airplane! (for which he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay) and The Naked Gun series. The team of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker (also referred to as "ZAZ") really began when the ...

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FAT: A Documentary

FAT: A Documentary

2019

as Self - Father / Founder, Charlie Foundation / Filmmaker

6.1
Acting

Weight loss expert Vinnie Tortorich and award-winning filmmaker Peter Pardini want you to join their team to make a hard-hitting documentary film that...

Kareem: Minority of One

Kareem: Minority of One

2015

as Self

7.2
Acting

This documentary charts the complexity and genius of the NBA's all-time leading scorer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's legendary career, both on and off the cou...

Scary Movie 4

Scary Movie 4

2006

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are i...

Jane Austen's Mafia!

Jane Austen's Mafia!

1998

Screenplay, Director

5.5
Writing Directing

Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.

...First Do No Harm

...First Do No Harm

1997

Director, Producer

6.9
Directing Producing

When Lori Reimuller learns that her young son Robbie has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it under c...

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

1994

Executive Producer

6.5
Producing

Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for wh...

An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet

1994

Director

1.0
Directing

An introduction to the Ketogenic Diet, a special high-fat diet used to treat seizures, as a treatment for childhood epilepsy narrated by Meryl Streep....

Hot Shots! Part Deux

Hot Shots! Part Deux

1993

Screenplay, Characters, Director

6.6
Writing Directing

Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue ...

Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology

Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology

1993

5.5
Acting

As part of the film's promotion, a mockumentary was aired on HBO. Titled Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology, the mockumentary parodi...

Brain Donors

Brain Donors

1992

Executive Producer

6.2
Producing

Three manic idiots—a lawyer, a cab driver and a handyman—team up to run a ballet company to fulfil the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics resul...

Hot Shots!

Hot Shots!

1991

Director, Writer

6.6
Directing Writing

The gang that created Airplane and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this often hilarious spoof starring Charlie Sheen, who previously only ...

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

1991

Executive Producer, Original Series Creator

6.8
Producing

Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of busin...

Oscar

Oscar

1991

as Postman (uncredited)

6.3
Acting

Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite ...

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

1990

Director

6.2
Directing

Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to de...

Cry-Baby

Cry-Baby

1990

Executive Producer

6.5
Producing

A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

1988

Writer, Executive Producer

7.3
Writing Producing

When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen ...

Coming to America

Coming to America

1988

as Face on Cutting Room Floor

6.9
Acting

An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise...

Big Business

Big Business

1988

Director

6.4
Directing

In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local...

Ruthless People

Ruthless People

1986

Director

6.6
Directing

Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when she's taken by a duo of kidnappers who want $500,000 ransom in exc...

Top Secret!

Top Secret!

1984

as German Soldier in Prop Room (uncredited)

7.1
Acting

Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillar...

Top Secret!

Top Secret!

1984

Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer

7.1
Directing Writing Producing

Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillar...

Cocaine Blues

Cocaine Blues

1983

as Himself

Acting

A look at the problems associated with cocaine use, including the toll it takes, not only on the users themselves but on society in general.

Airplane!

Airplane!

1980

as Religious Zealot #6

7.3
Acting

An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

Airplane!

Airplane!

1980

Executive Producer, Director, Writer

7.3
Producing Directing Writing

An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

The Kentucky Fried Movie

The Kentucky Fried Movie

1977

as Various

6.2
Acting

A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films...

The Kentucky Fried Movie

The Kentucky Fried Movie

1977

Writer

6.2
Writing

A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films...