Along with David and Jerry Zucker, he revolutionized film comedy with a style of straight-faced, fast-paced parody.

Mr. Abrahams built a wide-ranging résumé as a solo director including comedies such as “Big Business” (1988), starring Bette ...

Jim Abrahams, who along with Jerry and David Zucker made up the filmmaking trio behind the spoof comedies 'Airplane!' and ...

Jim Abrahams, who has died aged 80, was one of three badly behaved American schoolboys who went on to reinvent screen comedy ...

Jim Abrahams, part of the team behind such comedy touchstones as Airplane!,' the 'Naked Gun' films and Police Squad!, died ...

Jim Abrahams, the writer-director who helped create comedy classics such as “Airplane!,” the “Naked Gun” movies, and the TV ...

Coincidentally, a few days before the death of the writer-director Jim Abrahams at the age of 80, I was watching Airplane!

Hollywood loses a man who helped shape the sense of humor of a generation, and the first trailer is out for the spy thriller ...

Jim Abrahams was one of the writers involved in beloved comedies such as "Airplane!" and the "Naked Gun" series.

His work with brothers Jerry and David Zucker honed a style characterized by wild physical comedy, sight gags, double ...

The world of cinema, and especially comedy, has lost one of its great stalwarts of recent decades. Jim Abrahams, one of the ...

Jim Abrahams famously known for the comedy genre on its ear with such zany efforts as Airplane!, Police Squad! and The Naked ...