Mel Brooks
Biography
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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
Acting
1987
asPresident Skroob / Yogurt
1981
asMoses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
1994
asSelf
1994
asCheckout Guest (uncredited)
1994
asMr. Welling
1976
asMel Funn
1979
asProfessor Max Krassman
1974
asGovernor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief
1991
asGoddard Bolt
1983
asDr. Frederick Bronski
1993
asRabbi Tuckman
1970
asTikon
1995
asProf. Abraham Van Helsing
1977
asDr. Richard H. Thorndyke
2005
asBigweld (voice)
2012
asSelf
1997
asSelf
1999
asJake Gordon
2007
asSinger in 'Springtime for Hitler' (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
asAnnouncer (voice)
2009
asSelf
2007
asSelf (archive footage)
2009
asSelf
1988
asSelf
1963
asNarrator (voice)
2012
asSelf
2000
asStressed old man
2013
asSelf
2009
asSelf
1974
asBaby Boy (voice)
2023
asSelf
2013
asSelf
1990
asMr. Toilet Man (voice)
2015
asVlad (voice)
2015
asSelf
2011
asSelf
2003
asHimself
2017
asSelf
2024
asSelf
2014
asAlbert Einstein (voice)
1975
asLion victim (voice)
1996
asSelf
2017
asSelf
1974
asWerewolf / Cat Hit by Dart / Victor Frankenstein (voice)
1984
asSelf
2016
asSelf
asBürgermeister (voice)
2006
asSelf
asHimself
2022
asShogun (voice)
2016
asSelf
2017
asSelf
1998
asSelf (archive footage)
2016
asMustachioed Creep (voice)
2018
asSelf
1992
asMovie Director
2003
asJoe Snow (voice)
1984
asSelf
2016
asLuteau (voice)
asGatekeeper (voice)
2016
asHimself
1978
asAdolf Hitler
2018
asVlad (voice)
2000
asHimself
2000
asHimself
1970
asHimself
1968
asSinger in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited)
2018
asSelf
1975
as2000 Year Old Man (voice)
2018
asSelf
2009
asSelf
2019
asMelephant Brooks (voice)
2005
asHilda the Pigeon / Tom the Cat (voice)
2001
asSelf
2009
asSelf
1978
asSelf
2001
asSelf / Host
2019
asMelephant Brooks (voice)
2012
asSelf
2003
asSelf
2005
asSelf
2001
asSelf
2002
asSelf
2005
asSelf
1993
asSelf
2021
asSelf
2011
asSelf (archive footage)
1979
asSelf
2009
asSelf (archive)
2008
asPresident Skroob/Yogurt
2014
asSelf (archive footage)
2024
asSelf
2025
asSelf - Director
2010
asSally Simon Simmons Narrator
asUncle Phil
asMel Brooks (voice)
as
asSelf
asTom (voice)
asSelf
as
asMel Brooks
asSelf - Comedian
asSelf
asPresident Skroob / Yogurt (voice)
asWiley (voice)
asSelf
as 
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asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asMel Brooks
asSelf
as
asSelf
asSelf - Panelist
asSelf
asSelf
asMel Funn (archive footage) (uncredited)
asSelf
as
asSelf
asSelf - Guest
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
as
asNarrator
asSelf
asSanta Claus (voice)
asasThe Angry Cat (voice)
asSelf
asSelf - Nominee
asSelf - Winner
Production
1987
as1981
as1991
as1983
as1993
as1995
as1977
as2005
as2022
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1985
as2015
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1978
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1980
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1986
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1989
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2015
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1992
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1980
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1986
asas 
1987
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asas Crew
2014
as1963
asDirecting
1987
as1974
as1981
as1968
as1976
as1974
as1991
as1970
as1993
as1995
as1977
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