Mel Brooks
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Melvin Brooks (né Kaminsky, born June 28, 1926) is an American filmmaker, comedian, actor and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows. He became well known as part of the comedy duo with Carl Reiner in the comedy skit The 2000 Year Old Man. He also created, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series Get Smart, which ran from 1965 to 1970. In middle age, Brooks became one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s, with many of his films being among the top 10 moneymakers of the year they were released. His best-known films include The Producers, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World, Part I, Spaceballs and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. A musical adaptation of his first film, The Producers, ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007. In 2001, having previously won an Emmy, a Grammy and an Oscar, he joined a small list of EGOT winners with his Tony award for The Producers. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010, the 41st AFI Life Achievement Award in June 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in March 2015, a National Medal of Arts in September 2016, and a BAFTA Fellowship in February 2017. Three of his films ranked in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy films of the past 100 years (1900–2000), all of which ranked in the top 15 of the list: Blazing Saddles at number 6, The Producers at number 11, and Young Frankenstein at number 13. Brooks was married to Oscar-winning actress Anne Bancroft from 1964 until her death in 2005.
Known for
ActingBirthday
June 28, 1926Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
122Place of birth
Brooklyn, New York, USAAlso known as
Melvin James KaminskyCast credits
Spaceballs
President Skroob / YogurtHistory of the World: Part I
Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVIThe Silence of the Hams
Checkout Guest (uncredited)It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
SelfThe Little Rascals
Mr. WellingSilent Movie
Mel FunnBlazing Saddles
Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian ChiefThe Muppet Movie
Professor Max KrassmanLife Stinks
Goddard BoltTo Be or Not to Be
Dr. Frederick BronskiRobin Hood: Men in Tights
Rabbi TuckmanDracula: Dead and Loving It
Prof. Abraham Van HelsingHigh Anxiety
Dr. Richard H. ThorndykeRobots
Bigweld (voice)Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
SelfScrew Loose
Jake GordonThe Critic
Narrator (voice)Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
SelfSex, Lies and Video Violence
Stressed old manRichard Pryor: Omit the Logic
SelfCrew credits
Spaceballs
Director, Screenplay, ProducerHistory of the World: Part I
Producer, Screenplay, DirectorYoung Frankenstein
Screenplay, Director, ScreenstorySilent Movie
Screenplay, DirectorBlazing Saddles
Director, Screenplay, Songs, LyricistThe Producers
Director, Writer, Songs, LyricistLife Stinks
Screenplay, Director, Producer, StoryTo Be or Not to Be
ProducerRobin Hood: Men in Tights
Screenplay, Producer, DirectorDracula: Dead and Loving It
Screenplay, Director, ProducerThe Twelve Chairs
Screenplay, DirectorHigh Anxiety
Producer, Director, Writer, SongsThe Producers
Producer, Screenplay, SongsMel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
Writer, Executive ProducerShinbone Alley
AuthorSam
Executive ProducerThe Vagrant
Executive ProducerGet Smart
CharactersNew Faces
WriterAnnie: the Women in the Life of a Man
WriterThe 2000 Year Old Man
Writer