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Mel Brooks
Born · June 28, 1926 (98 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Bio
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.
Remembering Gene Wilder
Self
7.4
2024
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Self
7.5
2023
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
Announcer (voice)
6.3
2023
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Shogun (voice)
6.7
2022
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Self
7.2
2018
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Vlad (voice)
6.9
2018
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Self
6.9
2018
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
Self
5.4
2017
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
Self
7.1
2017
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
Self
6.8
2017
Ballerina
Mustachioed Creep (voice)
7.2
2016
Ballerina
Luteau (voice)
7.2
2016
It's Always About the Story: Conversations with Alan Ladd, Jr.
Himself
5.5
2016
The Last Laugh
Self
6.9
2016
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Self
7.0
2016
Hotel Transylvania 2
Vlad (voice)
6.8
2015
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
Self
6.8
2015
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Albert Einstein (voice)
6.7
2014
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Self
8.2
2013
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self
7.1
2013
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
Self
6.5
2012
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man
Self
0.0
2012
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
Self
7.8
2011
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
Self
0.0
2009
Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition
Self
0.0
2009
Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie'
Self
0.0
2009
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Singer in 'Springtime for Hitler' (archive footage) (uncredited)
5.0
2007
Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
Self (archive footage)
0.0
2007
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
Self
0.0
2006
Robots
Bigweld (voice)
6.5
2005
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
Joe Snow (voice)
6.0
2003
Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
Himself
0.0
2003
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
Himself
0.0
2000
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
Himself
0.0
2000
Sex, Lies and Video Violence
Stressed old man
5.5
2000
Screw Loose
Jake Gordon
4.0
1999
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
Self (archive footage)
7.7
1998
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
Self
7.0
1997
Caesar's Writers
Self
0.0
1996
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Prof. Abraham Van Helsing
6.1
1995
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Self
8.5
1994
The Little Rascals
Mr. Welling
6.8
1994
The Silence of the Hams
Checkout Guest (uncredited)
4.9
1994
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Rabbi Tuckman
6.6
1993
Mickey's Audition
Movie Director
4.0
1992
Life Stinks
Goddard Bolt
5.6
1991
Look Who's Talking Too
Mr. Toilet Man (voice)
5.5
1990
Free to Be... a Family
Self
9.5
1988
Spaceballs
President Skroob / Yogurt
6.8
1987
Sunset People
0.0
1984
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Self
6.5
1984
To Be or Not to Be
Dr. Frederick Bronski
6.7
1983
History of the World: Part I
Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
6.8
1981
The Muppet Movie
Professor Max Krassman
7.2
1979
High Anxiety
Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke
6.4
1977
Silent Movie
Mel Funn
6.5
1976
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Lion victim (voice)
6.0
1975
Young Frankenstein
Werewolf / Cat Hit by Dart / Victor Frankenstein (voice)
7.9
1974
Free to Be… You and Me
Baby Boy (voice)
6.4
1974
Blazing Saddles
Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief
7.2
1974
The Twelve Chairs
Tikon
6.3
1970
Fairy Tale Forest: Flower of the Dawn
Bürgermeister (voice)
0.0
Mel Brooks: The Genius Entertainer
Himself
9.0
Untitled Lani Pixels Project
Gatekeeper (voice)
0.0
The Automat
Self
6.9
2021
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
Melephant Brooks (voice)
6.3
2019
Toy Story 4
Melephant Brooks (voice)
7.5
2019
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Self
6.7
2018
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
Self (archive footage)
0.0
2014
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
Self
0.0
2012
Inside Comedy
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
2012
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
Self (archive footage)
6.0
2011
Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense
Self
0.0
2009
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
Self
6.7
2009
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
Self (archive)
0.0
2009
Spaceballs: The Totally Warped Animated Adventures
President Skroob/Yogurt
0.0
2008
The Producers
Hilda the Pigeon / Tom the Cat (voice)
6.2
2005
Spaceballs: In Conversation - Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
Self
6.0
2005
John Candy: Comic Spirit
Self
6.0
2005
Life Stinks: Does Life Really Stink?
Self
4.5
2003
The Making of 'The Producers'
Self
7.5
2002
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
Self
6.0
2001
Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
Self / Host
9.0
2001
Back in the Saddle
Self
6.0
2001
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Mel Brooks · (4 episodes)
8.0
2000
Frasier
Tom (voice) · (1 episode)
7.7
1993
'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming
Self
6.0
1993
Mad About You
Uncle Phil · (4 episodes)
6.7
1992
Noel's House Party
(1 episode)
7.2
1991
The Simpsons
Mel Brooks (voice) · (1 episode)
8.0
1989
The Muppets Go Hollywood
Self
6.3
1979
Mickey's 50
Self
0.0
1978
The 2000 Year Old Man
2000 Year Old Man (voice)
6.5
1975
The Bigger Bubble
Mr. Welling (Little Rascals)
0.0
History of the World: Part II
Narrator · (8 episodes)
5.6
2023
Only Murders in the Building
Mel Brooks · (1 episode)
8.4
2021
To Tell the Truth
Self - Panelist · (2 episodes)
6.0
2016
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Self · (1 episode)
7.2
2012
The Paul Reiser Show
The Angry Cat (voice) · (1 episode)
6.0
2011
Glenn Martin, DDS
(1 episode)
5.9
2009
Spaceballs: The Animated Series
President Skroob / Yogurt (voice) · (14 episodes)
4.1
2008
Legends
Mel Funn (archive footage) (uncredited) · (1 episode)
5.0
2006
Broadway: The American Musical
Self · (6 episodes)
7.8
2004
Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
Wiley (voice) · (52 episodes)
5.3
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
2003
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Santa Claus (voice) · (1 episode)
7.4
2002
Primetime Glick
(1 episode)
6.9
2001
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Self · (1 episode)
8.2
1998
The Frank Skinner Show
Self · (1 episode)
7.5
1995
RTL Samstag Nacht
(1 episode)
8.2
1993
Saturday Night Clive
(1 episode)
0.0
1989
Wogan
Self · (2 episodes)
4.5
1982
Champs-Elysées
Self · (1 episode)
6.2
1982
Peeping Times
Adolf Hitler
4.0
1978
An Audience with...
Self · (1 episode)
5.3
1978
Bitte umblättern
Self · (3 episodes)
6.0
1977
Arena
(1 episode)
6.7
1975
Flick Flack
(1 episode)
0.0
1974
The Electric Company
(780 episodes)
6.9
1971
Great Performances
Self · (1 episode)
5.2
1971
Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man
Himself
0.0
1970
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · (2 episodes)
6.7
1968
The Producers
Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited)
7.1
1968
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self · (2 episodes)
6.4
1967
The Hollywood Palace
Self - Comedian · (3 episodes)
4.5
1964
The Hollywood Palace
Self · (1 episode)
4.5
1964
The Critic
Narrator (voice)
6.4
1963
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · (4 episodes)
7.4
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · (2 episodes)
5.1
1961
The David Susskind Show
Self · (1 episode)
5.0
1959
Tony Awards
Self - Winner · (1 episode)
5.0
1956
The Wonderful World of Disney
Self · (1 episode)
7.6
1954
The Oscars
Self · (1 episode)
7.0
1953
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · (1 episode)
6.8
1944