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Jim Abrahams Dies: ‘Airplane!’, ‘Naked Gun’ & ‘Police Squad!’ Writer-Director Was 80
Jim Abrahams, part of the team behind such comedy touchstones as Airplane!,' the 'Naked Gun' films and Police Squad!, died November 26 in Santa Monica at 80.
Jim 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. Students of the Mel Brooks School of Anything for a Laugh, the trio paired absurd situations with deadpan lines and fueled Leslie Nielsen’s unlikely rise to leading man after 30 years in the business. Who could forget Peter Graves’ fish-eating pilot, Barbara Billingsley’s jive-talkin’ passenger, Robert Stack’s acerbic military vet or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s slow-boiling co-pilot?- Oh wait, that was Roger Murdoch (wink-wink).
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