Mel Brooks
Acting
Born 1926-06-28
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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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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The Simpsons
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Frasier
The Mike Douglas Show
Real Time with Bill Maher
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Only Murders in the Building
Golden Globe Awards
Great Performances
Tony Awards
Mad About You
Toy Story 4
The Dick Cavett Show
Get Smart
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Wogan
Champs-Elysées
Film '72
The Oscars
Ciné regards
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Hotel Transylvania 2
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Robots
To Tell the Truth
Spaceballs
An Audience with...
Get Smart
Ballerina
History of the World: Part II
The Electric Company
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
The Little Rascals
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Live & Kicking
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Somebody Feed Phil
The Frank Skinner Show
Young Frankenstein
The Hollywood Palace
RTL Samstag Nacht
Glenn Martin, DDS
Blazing Saddles
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
The Fly II
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
The Wonderful World of Disney
Inside Comedy
John Candy: I Like Me
Primetime Glick
Legends
Please Turn the Page
Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Noel's House Party
The Producers
The Muppet Movie
Life Stinks
The Producers
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