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.
Known for
The Simpsons
Mel Brooks (voice)
Frasier
Tom (voice)
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Mel Brooks
Mad About You
Uncle Phil
The Electric Company
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Santa Claus (voice)
RTL Samstag Nacht
Tony Awards
Self - Winner
Great Performances
Self
Noel's House Party
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
Only Murders in the Building
Mel Brooks
To Tell the Truth
Self - Panelist
The Wonderful World of Disney
Self
Arena
Glenn Martin, DDS
Toy Story 4
Melephant Brooks (voice)
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Vlad (voice)
Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
Wiley (voice)
Robots
Bigweld (voice)
Ballerina
Mustachioed Creep (voice)
Ballerina
Luteau (voice)
The Oscars
Self
Spaceballs
President Skroob / Yogurt
The Little Rascals
Mr. Welling
The Hollywood Palace
Self - Comedian
The Hollywood Palace
Self
History of the World: Part II
Narrator
Hotel Transylvania 2
Vlad (voice)
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Albert Einstein (voice)
Young Frankenstein
Werewolf / Cat Hit by Dart / Victor Frankenstein (voice)
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Shogun (voice)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Rabbi Tuckman
The Producers
Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited)
Saturday Night Clive
Legends
Mel Funn (archive footage) (uncredited)
Look Who's Talking Too
Mr. Toilet Man (voice)
Life Stinks
Goddard Bolt
The Producers
Hilda the Pigeon / Tom the Cat (voice)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Self
Blazing Saddles
Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief
History of the World: Part I
Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Self
To Be or Not to Be
Dr. Frederick Bronski
The Last Laugh
Self
Spaceballs: The Animated Series
President Skroob / Yogurt (voice)
Mickey's 50
Self
The Muppet Movie
Professor Max Krassman
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self
The Muppets Go Hollywood
Self
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
Joe Snow (voice)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Prof. Abraham Van Helsing
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Self
Free to Be... a Family
Self
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Self
Free to Be… You and Me
Baby Boy (voice)
Peeping Times
Adolf Hitler
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
Self (archive)
'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming
Self
Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
Self (archive footage)
The Paul Reiser Show
The Angry Cat (voice)
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Singer in 'Springtime for Hitler' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Self
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
Self
Remembering Gene Wilder
Self
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
Melephant Brooks (voice)
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Self
High Anxiety
Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Self
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
Self
The Automat
Self
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Lion victim (voice)
John Candy: Comic Spirit
Self
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
Self
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
Self
Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie'
Self
Untitled Lani Pixels Project
Gatekeeper (voice)
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Self
Broadway: The American Musical
Self
The Silence of the Hams
Checkout Guest (uncredited)
Screw Loose
Jake Gordon
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Self
Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition
Self
Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man
Himself
Flower of the Dawn
Bürgermeister (voice)
Silent Movie
Mel Funn
Caesar's Writers
Self
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
Self
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
Himself
Back in the Saddle
Self
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
Self
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
Self
Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
Self / Host
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
David Lynch, A Hollywood Enigma
Self - Director
Mickey's Audition
Movie Director
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man
Self
The Making of 'The Producers'
Self
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
Himself
Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense
Self
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
Self (archive footage)
Sunset People
Self
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
Self (archive footage)
The 2000 Year Old Man
2000 Year Old Man (voice)
Spaceballs: The Totally Warped Animated Adventures
President Skroob/Yogurt
Sex, Lies and Video Violence
Stressed old man
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
Self
The Twelve Chairs
Tikon
Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
Himself
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
Self
It's Always About the Story: Conversations with Alan Ladd, Jr.
Himself
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
Self
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
Self
The Critic
Narrator (voice)
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
Announcer (voice)
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
Self (archive footage)
Mel Brooks: The Genius Entertainer
Himself
Spaceballs: In Conversation - Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
Mel Brooks: Seriously... Well, Almost
Self
Ruby's Studio: the Feelings Show
Sally Simon Simmons Narrator
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
Self
Life Stinks: Does Life Really Stink?
Self
Wogan
Self
Champs-Elysées
Self
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Self
The Frank Skinner Show
Self
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
An Audience with...
Self
The David Susskind Show
Self
Inside Comedy
Self
Primetime Glick
Please Turn the Page
Self