Mel Brooks
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
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Credits
- 2024 · Remembering Gene Wilder as Self
- 2023 · Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic as Self
- 2021 · The Automat as Self
- 2019 · Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love? as Melephant Brooks (voice)
- 2018 · The Great Buster: A Celebration as Self
- 2018 · Mel Brooks: Unwrapped as Self
- 2017 · If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast as Self
- 2016 · The Last Laugh as Self
- 2016 · Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You as Self
- 2013 · Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic as Self
- 2012 · Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man as Self
- 2011 · The Paul Reiser Show as The Angry Cat (voice)
- 2009 · Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition as Self
- 2009 · A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers as Self
- 2008 · Spaceballs: The Animated Series as President Skroob / Yogurt (voice)
- 2007 · Hitler: The Comedy Years as Singer in 'Springtime for Hitler' (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2007 · Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s as Self (archive footage)
- 2004 · Broadway: The American Musical as Self
- 2003 · It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie as Joe Snow (voice)
- 2000 · Sex, Lies and Video Violence as Stressed old man
- 1999 · Screw Loose as Jake Gordon
- 1997 · Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch as Self
- 1994 · It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein as Self
- 1993 · 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming as Self
- 1989 · Saturday Night Clive as
- 1988 · Free to Be... a Family as Self
- 1984 · An Audience with Mel Brooks as Self
- 1979 · The Muppets Go Hollywood as Self
- 1978 · Peeping Times as Adolf Hitler
- 1974 · Flick Flack as
- 1970 · Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man as Himself
- Future · Fairy Tale Forest: Flower of the Dawn as Bürgermeister (voice)
- 2023 · Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love as Announcer (voice)
- 2023 · History of the World: Part II as Narrator
- 2022 · Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank as Shogun (voice)
- 2021 · Only Murders in the Building as Mel Brooks
- 2019 · Toy Story 4 as Melephant Brooks (voice)
- 2018 · Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation as Vlad (voice)
- 2018 · Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story as Self
- 2017 · Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies as Self
- 2017 · Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story as Self
- 2016 · Ballerina as Mustachioed Creep (voice)
- 2016 · Ballerina as Luteau (voice)
- 2016 · To Tell the Truth as Self - Panelist
- 2016 · It's Always About the Story: Conversations with Alan Ladd, Jr. as Himself
- 2015 · Hotel Transylvania 2 as Vlad (voice)
- 2015 · Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen as Self
- 2014 · Mr. Peabody & Sherman as Albert Einstein (voice)
- 2013 · Mel Brooks: Make a Noise as Self
- 2012 · Mel Brooks Strikes Back! as Self
- 2012 · In the Beginning: The Caesar Years as Self
- 2012 · Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee as Self
- 2012 · Inside Comedy as Self
- 2011 · Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again as Self
- 2011 · The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 · Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense as Self
- 2009 · Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie' as Self
- 2009 · Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World as Self
- 2009 · Glenn Martin, DDS as
- 2009 · Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s as Self (archive)
- 2006 · Legends as Mel Funn (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2006 · The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks as Self
- 2005 · The Producers as Hilda the Pigeon / Tom the Cat (voice)
- 2005 · John Candy: Comic Spirit as Self
- 2005 · Spaceballs: In Conversation - Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan as Self
- 2005 · Robots as Bigweld (voice)
- 2003 · Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks as Wiley (voice)
- 2003 · Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
- 2003 · Life Stinks: Does Life Really Stink? as Self
- 2003 · Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar as Himself
- 2002 · The Making of 'The Producers' as Self
- 2002 · The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius as Santa Claus (voice)
- 2001 · The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed as Self
- 2001 · Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks as Self / Host
- 2001 · Primetime Glick as
- 2001 · Back in the Saddle as Self
- 2000 · Curb Your Enthusiasm as Mel Brooks
- 2000 · The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy as Himself
- 2000 · The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room as Himself
- 1998 · AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies as Self
- 1998 · Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century as Self (archive footage)
- 1996 · Caesar's Writers as Self
- 1995 · Dracula: Dead and Loving It as Prof. Abraham Van Helsing
- 1995 · The Frank Skinner Show as Self
- 1994 · The Little Rascals as Mr. Welling
- 1994 · The Silence of the Hams as Checkout Guest (uncredited)
- 1993 · RTL Samstag Nacht as
- 1993 · Frasier as Tom (voice)
- 1993 · Robin Hood: Men in Tights as Rabbi Tuckman
- 1992 · Mickey's Audition as Movie Director
- 1992 · Mad About You as Uncle Phil
- 1991 · Noel's House Party as
- 1991 · Life Stinks as Goddard Bolt
- 1990 · Look Who's Talking Too as Mr. Toilet Man (voice)
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Mel Brooks (voice)
- 1987 · Spaceballs as President Skroob / Yogurt
- 1984 · Sunset People as
- 1983 · To Be or Not to Be as Dr. Frederick Bronski
- 1982 · Wogan as Self
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1981 · History of the World: Part I as Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
- 1979 · The Muppet Movie as Professor Max Krassman
- 1978 · Mickey's 50 as Self
- 1978 · An Audience with... as Self
- 1977 · High Anxiety as Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke
- 1977 · Bitte umblättern as Self
- 1976 · Silent Movie as Mel Funn
- 1975 · The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother as Lion victim (voice)
- 1975 · Arena as
- 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 and Me as Baby Boy (voice)
- 1974 · Blazing Saddles as Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief
- 1971 · The Electric Company as
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self
- 1970 · The Twelve Chairs as Tikon
- 1968 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 1968 · The Producers as Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited)
- 1967 · Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
- 1964 · The Hollywood Palace as Self - Comedian
- 1964 · The Hollywood Palace as Self
- 1963 · The Critic as Narrator (voice)
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- 1959 · The David Susskind Show as Self
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Winner
- 1954 · The Wonderful World of Disney as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- Future · Untitled Lani Pixels Project as Gatekeeper (voice)
- Future · Mel Brooks: The Genius Entertainer as Himself