By the end of his career, Emmy-nominated actor Lloyd Bridges had fully embraced his comedic chops, starring in parody films ...

On July 2, 1980, Paramount unveiled in theaters Airplane!, which would eventually become known as one of the great movie comedy satires. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review is below.

When the creators of the 1980 comedy classic “Airplane!” were casting the lead role of pilot Ted Striker — eventually played by Robert Hays — they saw a slew of actors who weren’t right ...

“Airplane!” (1980) ZAZ also spurred Leslie Nielsen’s rise to fame. The actor had been working in TV and film for three decades and became the most unlikely of Hollywood leading men.

Host David Letterman poses for a portrait in c.1983 in Los Angeles, California; Robert Hays in Airplane, 1980. David Letterman may be one of the most iconic late-night hosts of all time, ...

Surely it can’t be 35 years since the comedy “Airplane!” (1980) first arrived in movie theaters. In fact, it has been that long—and don’t call me Shirley.

Jim Abrahams, the writer-director who with the Zucker brothers created Airplane!, ... Jerry Zucker, producers Howard Koch and Robert K. Weiss and Jim Abrahams on the set of 1980’s’ Airplane!

If we had you at “surely,” you’re part of the generation whose sense of humor was warped, er, shaped by “Airplane!,” the 1980 disaster movie parody that has become a classic and was a ...

His hit 1980 film "Airplane!" starring Leslie Nielsen, Robert Hays and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was a spoof of the black-and-white film "Zero Hour!" ...

NPR's A Martinez talks to David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, the trio who wrote and directed Airplane!, about their new book Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!