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Mel Brooks
Actor, Producer, Writer, Director, Additional CreditsBorn June 28, 1926 (98 years)
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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.
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
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 Ace's Manager |
| 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 (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 |
| 1983 | Mel Brooks: To Be or Not to Be - The Hitler Rap · as Adolf Hitler |
| 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 |
| 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 | Arena (1975) (TV Series) |
| 1975 | When Things Were Rotten (TV Series) · as Guard |
| 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) |