Mel Brooks

Personal Info

Known For:
Acting

Birthday:
June 28, 1926

Place of Birth:
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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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

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
Real Time with Bill Maher

Self
Tony Awards
Tony Awards

Self - Winner
The Simpsons
The Simpsons

Mel Brooks (voice)
Mad About You
Mad About You

Uncle Phil
The Mike Douglas Show
The Mike Douglas Show

Self
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Curb Your Enthusiasm

Mel Brooks
The Electric Company
The Electric Company

Filmography

Year Movie Role
2025 Welcome to Lynchland Self - Director
2025 From Darkness to Light Self (archive footage)
2024 Remembering Gene Wilder Self
2024 Mel Brooks: Seriously... Well, Almost Self
2023 Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love Announcer (voice)
2023 Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic Self
2022 Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank Shogun (voice)
2021 The Automat Self
2019 Toy Story 4 Melephant Brooks (voice)
2019 Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love? Melephant Brooks (voice)
2018 Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story Self
2018 Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation Vlad (voice)
2018 The Great Buster: A Celebration Self
2018 Mel Brooks: Unwrapped Self
2017 Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies Self
2017 Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story Self
2017 If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast Self
2016 The Last Laugh Self
2016 Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You Self
2016 Ballerina Mustachioed Creep (voice)
2016 Ballerina Luteau (voice)
2016 It's Always About the Story: Conversations with Alan Ladd, Jr. Himself
2015 Hotel Transylvania 2 Vlad (voice)
2015 Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen Self
2014 Mr. Peabody & Sherman Albert Einstein (voice)
2014 Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West Self (archive footage)
2013 Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic Self
2013 Mel Brooks: Make a Noise Self
2012 Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man Self
2012 Mel Brooks Strikes Back! Self
2012 In the Beginning: The Caesar Years Self
2011 Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again Self
2011 The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet Self (archive footage)
2010 Ruby's Studio: the Feelings Show Sally Simon Simmons Narrator
2009 Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World Self
2009 Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition Self
2009 Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie' Self
2009 A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers Self
2009 Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense Self
2009 Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s Self (archive)
2008 Spaceballs: The Totally Warped Animated Adventures President Skroob/Yogurt
2007 Hitler: The Comedy Years Singer in 'Springtime for Hitler' (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007 Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s Self (archive footage)
2006 The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks Self
2005 Robots Bigweld (voice)
2005 The Producers Hilda the Pigeon / Tom the Cat (voice)
2005 Spaceballs: In Conversation - Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan Self
2005 John Candy: Comic Spirit Self
2003 Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar Himself
2003 Life Stinks: Does Life Really Stink? Self
2002 It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie Joe Snow (voice)
2002 The Making of 'The Producers' Self
2001 The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed Self
2001 Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks Self / Host
2001 Back in the Saddle Self
2000 Sex, Lies and Video Violence Stressed old man
2000 The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy Himself
2000 The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room Himself
1999 Screw Loose Jake Gordon
1998 Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century Self (archive footage)
1997 Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch Self
1996 Caesar's Writers Self
1995 Dracula: Dead and Loving It Prof. Abraham Van Helsing
1994 It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein Self
1994 The Silence of the Hams Checkout Guest (uncredited)
1994 The Little Rascals Mr. Welling
1993 Robin Hood: Men in Tights Rabbi Tuckman
1993 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming Self
1992 Mickey's Audition Movie Director
1991 Life Stinks Goddard Bolt
1990 Look Who's Talking Too Mr. Toilet Man (voice)
1988 Free to Be... a Family Self
1987 Spaceballs President Skroob / Yogurt
1984 Sunset People Self
1984 An Audience with Mel Brooks Self
1983 To Be or Not to Be Dr. Frederick Bronski
1981 History of the World: Part I Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
1979 The Muppet Movie Professor Max Krassman
1979 The Muppets Go Hollywood Self
1978 Peeping Times Adolf Hitler
1978 Mickey's 50 Self
1977 High Anxiety Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke
1976 Silent Movie Mel Funn
1975 The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother Lion victim (voice)
1975 The 2000 Year Old Man 2000 Year Old Man (voice)
1974 Blazing Saddles Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief
1974 Free to Be… You and Me Baby Boy (voice)
1974 Young Frankenstein Werewolf / Cat Hit by Dart / Victor Frankenstein (voice)
1970 The Twelve Chairs Tikon
1970 Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man Himself
1968 The Producers Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited)
1963 The Critic Narrator (voice)
Flower of the Dawn Bürgermeister (voice)
Mel Brooks: The Genius Entertainer Himself
Untitled Lani Pixels Project Gatekeeper (voice)
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