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  • BIRTH 28/06/1926
  • Country United States
  • SHOWS 11
  • MOVIES 33
  • SHOWRUNNER 1
  • DIRECTOR 11
  • SCRIPT 16
  • PRODUCTION 17

Mel Brooks

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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.

Mel Brooks

Shows (11)

Only Murders in the Building
Only Murders in the Building
Mel Brooks
The Simpsons
The Simpsons
Mel Brooks (voice)
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Mel Brooks
Frasier
Frasier
Tom (voice)
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Self
History of the World, Part II
History of the World, Part II
Narrator
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Santa Claus (voice)
The Academy Awards
The Academy Awards
Self
Inside Comedy
Inside Comedy
Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
To Tell The Truth (2016)
To Tell The Truth (2016)
Self - Panelist

Movies (33)

Hotel Transylvania 2
Hotel Transylvania 2
Vlad (voice)
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Vlad (voice)
Ballerina
Ballerina
Luteau (voice)
Look Who's Talking Too
Look Who's Talking Too
Mr. Toilet Man (voice)
Robots
Robots
Bigweld (voice)
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Albert Einstein (voice)
Spaceballs
Spaceballs
President Skroob / Yogurt
David Lynch, une énigme à Hollywood
David Lynch, une énigme à Hollywood
Self - Director
Blazing Saddles
Blazing Saddles
Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Prof. Abraham Van Helsing
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Shogun (voice)
History of the World: Part I
History of the World: Part I
Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Rabbi Tuckman
The Little Rascals
The Little Rascals
Mr. Welling
The Muppet Movie
The Muppet Movie
Professor Max Krassman
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
Melephant Brooks (voice)
Silent Movie
Silent Movie
Mel Funn
Life Stinks
Life Stinks
Goddard Bolt
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
Joe Snow (voice)
To Be or Not to Be
To Be or Not to Be
Dr. Frederick Bronski
Remembering Gene Wilder
Remembering Gene Wilder
Self
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
Announcer (voice)
The Critic
The Critic
Narrator (voice)
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter…
Lion victim (voice)
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
Self
Il silenzio dei prosciutti
Il silenzio dei prosciutti
Checkout Guest (uncredited)
High Anxiety
High Anxiety
Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke
The Twelve Chairs
The Twelve Chairs
Tikon
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Self
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Self
The Great Buster: A Celebration
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Self
Free to Be… You and Me
Free to Be… You and Me
Baby Boy (voice)
The Muppets Go Hollywood
The Muppets Go Hollywood
Self

Showrunner

History of the World, Part II
History of the World, Part II

Director (11)

Spaceballs
Spaceballs
Blazing Saddles
Blazing Saddles
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Young Frankenstein
Young Frankenstein
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
History of the World: Part I
History of the World: Part I
The Producers
The Producers
Silent Movie
Silent Movie
Life Stinks
Life Stinks
The Twelve Chairs
The Twelve Chairs
High Anxiety
High Anxiety

Script (16)

Spaceballs
Spaceballs
Blazing Saddles
Blazing Saddles
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Young Frankenstein
Young Frankenstein
History of the World, Part II
History of the World, Part II
(1 episode)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
History of the World: Part I
History of the World: Part I
The Producers
The Producers
The Producers
The Producers
Get Smart
Get Smart
(1 episode)
Silent Movie
Silent Movie
Life Stinks
Life Stinks
The Twelve Chairs
The Twelve Chairs
High Anxiety
High Anxiety
The Critic
The Critic
Shinbone Alley
Shinbone Alley

Production (17)

The Elephant Man
The Elephant Man
The Fly
The Fly
Spaceballs
Spaceballs
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
The Fly II
The Fly II
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
History of the World: Part I
History of the World: Part I
The Producers
The Producers
The Vagrant
The Vagrant
To Be or Not to Be
To Be or Not to Be
Life Stinks
Life Stinks
The Doctor and the Devils
The Doctor and the Devils
Sam
Sam
Solarbabies
Solarbabies
High Anxiety
High Anxiety
84 Charing Cross Road
84 Charing Cross Road