Jim Abrahams

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 cowrote 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 three men grew up together in Milwaukee Wisconsin Abrahams later produced movies on his own such as Big Business and further honed his skills in parody with Hot Shots and its 1993 sequel Hot Shots Part Deux