Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks
Biography
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
Actor
as Bürgermeister (voice)
as Himself
as Gatekeeper (voice)
as Mr. Welling (Little Rascals)
as Self
as Self
as Announcer (voice)
as Narrator
as Shogun (voice)
as Self
as Mel Brooks
as Melephant Brooks (voice)
as Melephant Brooks (voice)
as Self
as Vlad (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Mustachioed Creep (voice)
as Luteau (voice)
as Self
as Self - Panelist
as Vlad (voice)
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Albert Einstein (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as The Angry Cat (voice)
as Self (archive)
as President Skroob/Yogurt
as President Skroob / Yogurt (voice)
as Singer in 'Springtime for Hitler' (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage)
as Mel Funn (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Hilda the Pigeon / Tom the Cat (voice)
as Self
as Bigweld (voice)
as Self
as Joe Snow (voice)
as Wiley (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Santa Claus (voice)
as Self / Host
as Self
as Stressed old man
as Mel Brooks
as Jake Gordon
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Prof. Abraham Van Helsing
as Self
as Mr. Welling
as Checkout Guest (uncredited)
as Rabbi Tuckman
as Tom (voice)
as Movie Director
as Uncle Phil
as Goddard Bolt
as Mr. Toilet Man (voice)
as Mel Brooks (voice)
as Self
as President Skroob / Yogurt
as Self
as Dr. Frederick Bronski
as Self
as Self
as Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
as Professor Max Krassman
as Self
as Self
as Adolf Hitler
as Self
as Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke
as Self
as Mel Funn
as Lion victim (voice)
as 2000 Year Old Man (voice)
as Werewolf / Cat Hit by Dart / Victor Frankenstein (voice)
as Baby Boy (voice)
as Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief
as Self
as Tikon
as Himself
as Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited)
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Self - Comedian
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Self - Winner
as Self
as Self
as Self - Nominee
Writer
as Writer
as Original Film Writer
as Lyricist
as Writer
as Writer
as Characters
as Screenplay
as Screenplay
as Screenplay
as Screenplay
as Story
as Screenplay
as Writer
as Screenplay
as Characters
as Writer
as Screenplay
as Writer
as Screenplay
as Screenplay
as Lyricist
as Screenstory
as Screenplay
as Author
as Writer
as Writer
as Lyricist
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer
Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
Sound
as Songs
as Music
as Songs
as Songs
as Songs
as Songs
Creator
as Creator
as Creator
as Creator
as Creator
as Creator
Crew
as Thanks
as Creator