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NME - 12 hours 40 min agoTributes have poured in for the "comedy genius" The post Jim Abrahams, director of ‘Airplane!’ and ‘Naked Gun’ dies aged 80 appeared first on NME .
A comedy legend has left us.
Along with Jerry and David Zucker, he was known for his take on the spoof movie.
The writer and director, who died this week, helped to define what big screen spoofs would look like in the decades after Jim Abrahams, co-creator of Airplane! and The Naked Gun, dies aged 80 Very few people can honestly claim to have changed the direction of comedy, but Jim Abrahams who died this week is one of them. Thanks to the procession of spoof movies he made, both alone and with his fellow writer-directors David and Jerry Zucker, Abrahams helped to carve out a brand new genre of comedy;...
Rolling Stone - 18 hours 2 min agoWith brothers David and Jerry Zucker, Abrahams wrote and directed some of the most influential and successful comedies of the 20th century...
US Weekly - 19 hours 57 sec agoHollywood mourned many celebrities in 2024. Speed Racer star Christian Oliver (born Christian Klepser) died at the age of 51 during a fatal plane crash on January 5. Oliver was traveling home from a Caribbean vacation with his two daughters Madita and Annik, whom he shared with wife Jessica Klepser on January 4. The aircraft had engine trouble and fell into the ocean. The plane's pilot also died onboard in the accident. In addition to being an actor, Oliver was also a realtor at Beverly Hills...
Comedy writer and director died of natural causes...
Deadline Hollywood - 20 hours 48 sec agoJim Abrahams, part of the writing-directing-producing team behind such comedy touchstones as Airplane!, the Naked Gun films, and Police Squad!, died Tuesday at his Santa Monica home. He was 80. His son, Joseph Abrahams, confirmed the news to our sister site The Hollywood Reporter. Along with brothers David and Jerry Zucker, Abrahams also was behind laugh-inducing […]...
Jim Abrahams -- one of the creators behind classic comedies like "Airplane!" and 'The Naked Gun' -- has died. The writer, producer and director died early Tuesday morning at his home in Santa Monica ... according to his son, Joseph. We're told Jim…...
Jim Abrahams, a film director and writer behind hit slapstick comedies like “Airplane!,” “Hot Shots!,” the “Naked Gun” series and more, died Tuesday, his son Joseph confirmed to Variety. He was 80. With his childhood friends Jerry and David Zucker, Abrahams formed the filmmaking trio, called Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, and popularized the spoof genre […]...
Famed comedy writer and director, who was also involved in Ruthless People and Hot Shots!, died of natural causes Jim Abrahams, the writer-director involved with hit comedies Airplane! and The Naked Gun, has died at the age of 80. According to his son Joseph, who confirmed the news to the Hollywood Reporter , he died of natural causes at his home in Santa Monica. Continue reading...
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