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Mel Brooks
Actor, Producer, Writer, Director, Additional CreditsBorn June 28, 1926 (99 years)
Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; born 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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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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Filmography
| 2025 | The Land of Sometimes · as Cast |
| 2023 | Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love · as Announcer (voice) |
| 2023 | History of the World, Part II (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2022 | Little Demon (TV Series) · as Millipede |
| 2022 | Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank · as Shogun (voice) |
| 2021 | History of the Sitcom (TV Series) · as Producer |
| 2019 | Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love? · as Melephant Brooks (voice) |
| 2019 | Forky Asks a Question (TV Series) · as Melephant Brooks |
| 2019 | Toy Story 4 · as Melephant Brooks (voice) |
| 2018 | Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation · as Vlad (voice) |
| 2017 | The Green Fog · as Richard H. Thorndyke |
| 2016 | |
| 2015 | The Guardian Brothers · as Rogman |
| 2015 | Hotel Transylvania 2 · as Vlad (voice) |
| 2014 | Mr. Peabody & Sherman · as Albert Einstein (voice) |
| 2013 | Underdogs · as Agent |
| 2013 | When Comedy Went to School · as Cast |
| 2011 | The Paul Reiser Show (TV Series) · as The Angry Cat (voice) |
| 2010 | Ruby's Studio: The Feelings Show · as Sally Simon Simmons Narrator |
| 2009 | Glenn Martin DDS (TV Series) |
| 2009 | Special Agent Oso (TV Series) · as Grandpa Mel |
| 2008 | Spaceballs: The Animated Series (TV Series) · as President Skroob / Yogurt (voice) |
| 2005 | The Producers · as Hilda The Pigeon / Tom The Cat (voice) |
| 2005 | Cuando España se desnudó · as Cast |
| 2005 | Robots · as Bigweld (voice) |
| 2003 | Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (TV Series) · as Wiley (voice) |
| 2002 | It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie · as Joe Snow (voice) |
| 2002 | The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (TV Series) · as Santa Claus (voice) |
| 2001 | Primetime Glick (TV Series) |
| 2000 | The Kids from Room 402 (TV Series) · as Mr. Miller |
| 2000 | Dora the Explorer (TV Series) · as Mad Hatter |
| 2000 | Sex, Lies and Video Violence · as Stressed Old Man |
| 2000 | Up at the Villa · as Train Station Man |
| 1999 | Screw Loose · as Jake Gordon |
| 1995 | Dracula: Dead and Loving It · as Prof. Abraham Van Helsing |
| 1994 | The Little Rascals · as Mr. Welling |
| 1994 | The Silence of the Hams · as Checkout Guest (uncredited) |
| 1993 | RTL Samstag Nacht (DE) (TV Series) |
| 1993 | Frasier (TV Series) · as Tom (voice) |
| 1993 | Robin Hood: Men in Tights · as Rabbi Tuckman |
| 1992 | Mad About You (TV Series) · as Uncle Phil |
| 1991 | Noel's House Party (TV Series) |
| 1991 | Life Stinks · as Goddard Bolt |
| 1990 | Look Who's Talking Too · as Mr. Toilet Man (voice) |
| 1989 | The Simpsons (TV Series) · as Mel Brooks (voice) |
| 1987 | Spaceballs · as President Skroob / Yogurt |
| 1987 | The Tracey Ullman Show (TV Series) · as Buzz Schlanger |
| 1983 | To Be or Not to Be · as Dr. Frederick Bronski |
| 1982 | Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter · as Richard H. Thorndyke |
| 1981 | History of the World: Part I · as Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis Xvi |
| 1979 | The Muppet Movie · as Professor Max Krassman |
| 1978 | Peeping Times · as Adolf Hitler |
| 1977 | High Anxiety · as Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke |
| 1976 | Silent Movie · as Mel Funn |
| 1975 | The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother · as Lion Victim (voice) |
| 1975 | When Things Were Rotten (TV Series) · as Guard (uncredited) |
| 1975 | The 2000 Year Old Man · as 2000 Year Old Man (voice) |
| 1974 | Young Frankenstein · as Werewolf / Cat Hit By Dart / Victor Frankenstein (voice) |
| 1974 | Free to Be... You & Me · as Baby Boy (voice) |
| 1974 | Blazing Saddles · as Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief |
| 1971 | The Electric Company (TV Series) |
| 1970 | The Twelve Chairs · as Tikon |
| 1969 | Putney Swope · as Mr. Forget It |
| 1967 | The Producers · as Singer In "springtime For Hitler" (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1963 | The Critic · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1961 | The New Steve Allen Show (TV Series) · as 2000 Year Old Man |
| 1948 | The Milton Berle Show (TV Series) · as Pitchman's Stooge (window Washer) |