• Pat Proft is an American comedy writer, actor, and director. Born in Minnesota in 1947, Proft began his career at Dudley Riggs' Brave New Workshop in...
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  • during the 1980s. Members of the team have often collaborated with writer Pat Proft. David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker knew each other as children...
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  • of "More Deadly", the opening episode of the second season of M Squad. Pat Proft, who had worked with Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker on The Kentucky Fried...
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  • (with Pat Proft and Hugh Wilson) (1984) Bachelor Party (with Pat Proft) (1984) Moving Violations (with Pat Proft) (1985) Real Genius (with Pat Proft and...
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  • Police Academy (film) (category Films with screenplays by Pat Proft)
    who agreed to finance. Neal Israel was hired to write the script with Pat Proft. Israel said: It's a matter of block comedy scenes. Perhaps the most recognizable...
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    2017, a re-write of the script was being completed by David Zucker and Pat Proft, with the plot being reworked to feature the son of Frank Drebin. In January...
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  • Dan Proft (born 1972), an American businessperson, writer and radio talk show host Miroslav Proft (1923–2011), a Czech sports shooter Pat Proft (born...
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  • Hot Shots! (category Films with screenplays by Pat Proft)
    co-writer and co-director of Airplane!, and written by Abrahams and Pat Proft. It stars Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Jon...
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  • written by Stephen Curwick, based on characters created by Neal Israel and Pat Proft. The film was given a PG rating for violence and language. This was the...
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  • The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (category Films with screenplays by Pat Proft)
    team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker (ZAZ) as well as Pat Proft in varying combinations. Released on December 2, 1988, The Naked Gun was...
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  • Scary Movie 3 (category Films with screenplays by Pat Proft)
    to not use it, instead using a new script written by Craig Mazin and Pat Proft that was more similar to the first two installments. Filming started on...
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  • Wrongfully Accused (category Films with screenplays by Pat Proft)
    Accused is a 1998 satirical comedy film written, produced and directed by Pat Proft and starring Leslie Nielsen as a man who has been framed for murder and...
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  • American made-for-television comedy film, written by Neal Israel and Pat Proft. It stars Ringo Starr as both a fictionalised version of himself and his...
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  • Real Genius (category Films with screenplays by Pat Proft)
    fiction comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge, written by Neal Israel, Pat Proft, and PJ Torokvei, and starring Val Kilmer and Gabriel Jarret. The film...
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  • Scary Movie 4 (category Films with screenplays by Pat Proft)
    film directed by David Zucker, written by Jim Abrahams, Craig Mazin, and Pat Proft, and produced by Mazin and Robert K. Weiss. It is the sequel to Scary...
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  • Bachelor Party (1984 film) (category Films with screenplays by Pat Proft)
    American sex comedy film directed by Neal Israel, written by Israel and Pat Proft, and starring Tom Hanks, Adrian Zmed, William Tepper, and Tawny Kitaen...
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    improvisational comedy theatre in Minneapolis. The theater boasts such alumni as Pat Proft, Louie Anderson, Cedric Yarbrough, Mo Collins, and Al Franken. In 1996...
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  • Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (category Films with screenplays by Pat Proft)
    film directed by Peter Segal (in his directorial debut) and written by Pat Proft, David Zucker (who also directed the previous two films in the series)...
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  • Hot Shots! Part Deux (category Films with screenplays by Pat Proft)
    Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Rambo III (1988). Abrahams and Pat Proft wrote the screenplay. Members of both men's families have roles as extras...
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    Abrahams, the trio make up the ZAZ team of directors. He has worked with Pat Proft (with whom he first teamed up on the Naked Gun show Police Squad!) and...
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  • Mr. Magoo (film) (category Films with screenplays by Pat Proft)
    veteran Stanley Tong (his sole English language film) and written by Pat Proft and Tom Sherohman. Based on UPA's cartoon of the same name, it was produced...
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  • Scary Movie 5 (category Films with screenplays by Pat Proft)
    American parody film directed by Malcolm D. Lee, written by David Zucker and Pat Proft, and produced by Zucker and Phil Dornfeld. It is the standalone sequel...
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  • Producer(s) Police Academy March 23, 1984 (1984-03-23) Hugh Wilson Neal Israel, Pat Proft & Hugh Wilson Paul Maslansky Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment...
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    Playboy, promoting her role in M*A*S*H. Philipp married movie producer Pat Proft and they have a son. They reside in Medina, Minnesota. "The woman of Playboy...
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    Star Wars Holiday Special November 17, 1978 (1978-11-17) Steve Binder Pat Proft, Leonard Ripps, Bruce Vilanch, Rod Warren, and Mitzie Welch Joe Layton...
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  • Brain Donors (category Films with screenplays by Pat Proft)
    compare notes, Zucker sent Dugan a script by Pat Proft, and work began on the project in earnest. Initially, Proft was to be a co-producer and frequent Zucker...
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    Dennis Miller Paul Mooney Eddie Murphy Christina Pazsitzky Esther Povitsky Pat Proft Ollie Joe Prater Richard Pryor Chris Rock Paul Rodriguez Joe Rogan Ray...
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  • by Randolph Davis Michele S. Chodos Based on Characters by Neal Israel Pat Proft Produced by Paul Maslansky Starring George Gaynes Michael Winslow David...
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  • Moving Violations (category Films with screenplays by Pat Proft)
    everything." Robert Conrad appeared in the film, unbilled, as a favor to Pat Proft, who was an old friend. A spokesman from the studio said, "We'd describe...
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  • based his character on Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood, while scriptwriter Pat Proft wrote all of Drebin's lines, with nothing being improvised. The character's...
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