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Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and songwriter. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 21 entertainers to win the EGOT (which includes an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony). He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and the Honorary Academy Award in 2024.
Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer f…
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Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and songwriter. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 21 entertainers to win the EGOT (which includes an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony). He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and the Honorary Academy Award in 2024. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows(1950–1954). There, he worked with Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart, and Carl Reiner. With Reiner, he co-created the comedy sketch The 2000 Year Old Man. He released several comedy albums, starting with 2000 Year Old Man in 1960. Brooks received five nominations for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, finally winning in 1999. With Buck Henry, he created the hit satirical spy comedy series Get Smart (1965–1970) on NBC television. Brooks won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Producers (1967). He then rose to prominence by directing a string of successful comedy films such as The Twelve Chairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), and High Anxiety (1977). Later, Brooks made History of the World, Part I (1981), Spaceballs (1987), Life Stinks (1991), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995). A musical adaptation of his first film, The Producers, ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007 and earned Brooks three Tony Awards. The project was remade into a musical film in 2005. He wrote and produced the Hulu series History of the World, Part II (2023). Brooks was married to actress Anne Bancroft from 1964 until she died in 2005. Their son, Max Brooks, is an actor and author known for his novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006). In 2021, Mel Brooks published his memoir titled All About Me!. Three of his films are included on the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy films of the past 100 years (1900–2000), all of which were ranked in the top 15: Blazing Saddles at number 6, The Producers at number 11, and Young Frankenstein at number 13.
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Mel Brooks's Filmography
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Spaceballs: The New One
as President Skroob / Yogurt
Addicted to It
as Phoney Bunny
The Land of Sometimes
as The Postman (voice)
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
Flower of the Dawn
as Bürgermeister (voice)
John Candy: I Like Me
as Self - Director, Spaceballs
Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words
as Self
From Darkness to Light
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Mel Brooks: Seriously... Well, Almost
as Self
Remembering Gene Wilder
as Self
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
as Self
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
as Self - Announcer (voice)
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
as Shogun (voice)
The Automat
as Self
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
as Melephant Brooks (voice)
Toy Story 4
as Melephant Brooks (voice)
The Great Buster: A Celebration
as Self
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
as Vlad (voice)
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
as Self
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
as Self
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
as Self
Mel Brooks: The Genius Entertainer
as Himself
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
as Self
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
as Self
Ballerina
as Luteau (US version)
It's Always About the Story: Conversations with Alan Ladd, Jr.
as Himself
The Last Laugh
as Self
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
as Self
Hotel Transylvania 2
as Vlad (voice)
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
as Self
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
as Self (archive footage)
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
as Albert Einstein (voice)
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
as Self
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as Self
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
as Self
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
as Self
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man
as Self
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
as Self
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
as Self (archive footage)
Ruby's Studio: the Feelings Show
as Sally Simon Simmons Narrator
Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense
as Self
Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie'
as Self
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
as Self
Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition
as Self
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
as Self
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
as Self (archive)
Spaceballs: The Totally Warped Animated Adventures
as President Skroob/Yogurt
Hitler: The Comedy Years
as Singer in 'Springtime for Hitler' (archive footage) (uncredited)
No Poster
Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
as Self (archive footage)
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
as Self
The Producers
as Hilda the Pigeon / Tom the Cat (voice)
Spaceballs: The Documentary
as Self
No Poster
Spaceballs: In Conversation - Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
as Self
No Poster
John Candy: Comic Spirit
as Self
Robots
as Bigweld (voice)
Life Stinks: Does Life Really Stink?
as Self
Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
as Himself
The Making of 'The Producers'
as Self
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
as Joe Snow (voice)
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
as Self
Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
as Self / Host
Back in the Saddle
as Self
No Poster
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
as Himself
No Poster
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
as Himself
Sex, Lies and Video Violence
as Stressed old man
Screw Loose
as Jake Gordon
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
as Self (archive footage)
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
as Self
Caesar's Writers
as Self
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
as Prof. Abraham Van Helsing
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
as Self
The Little Rascals
as Mr. Welling
The Silence of the Hams
as Checkout Guest (uncredited)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
as Rabbi Tuckman
'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming
as Self
Mickey's Audition
as Movie Director
Life Stinks
as Goddard Bolt
Look Who's Talking Too
as Mr. Toilet Man (voice)
Free to Be... a Family
as Self
Spaceballs
as President Skroob / Yogurt
Sunset People
as Self
An Audience with Mel Brooks
as Self
To Be or Not to Be
as Dr. Frederick Bronski
History of the World: Part I
as Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
The Muppet Movie
as Professor Max Krassman
The Muppets Go Hollywood
as Self (uncredited)
Mickey's 50
as Self
Peeping Times
as Adolf Hitler
High Anxiety
as Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke
Silent Movie
as Mel Funn
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
as Lion victim (voice)
The 2000 Year Old Man
as 2000 Year Old Man (voice)
Young Frankenstein
as Werewolf / Cat / Victor Frankenstein (voice) (uncredited)
Free to Be… You and Me
as Baby Boy (voice)
Blazing Saddles
as William Le Petomane / Indian Chief
The Twelve Chairs
as Tikon
Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man
as Himself
The Producers
as Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited)
The Critic
as Narrator (voice)
Grown Ups 3
No Poster
Enormous
as Bernie (voice)
No Poster
Untitled Lani Pixels Project
as Gatekeeper (voice)
No Poster
Untitled Nathan Lane Documentary
as Self
No Poster
Funny Men in Tights: Three Generations of Comedy
as Self