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