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.
Spaceballs
(President Skroob / Yogurt)
History of the World: Part I
(Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI)
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
(Self)
The Silence of the Hams
(Checkout Guest (uncredited))
The Little Rascals
(Mr. Welling)
Silent Movie
(Mel Funn)
The Muppet Movie
(Professor Max Krassman)
Blazing Saddles
(Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief)
Life Stinks
(Goddard Bolt)
To Be or Not to Be
(Dr. Frederick Bronski)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
(Rabbi Tuckman)
The Twelve Chairs
(Tikon)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
(Prof. Abraham Van Helsing)
High Anxiety
(Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke)
Robots
(Bigweld (voice))
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man
(Self)
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
(Self)
Screw Loose
(Jake Gordon)
Hitler: The Comedy Years
(Singer in 'Springtime for Hitler' (archive footage) (uncredited))
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
(Announcer (voice))
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
(Self)
Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
(Self (archive footage))
Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition
(Self)
Free to Be... a Family
(Self)
The Critic
(Narrator (voice))
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
(Self)
Sex, Lies and Video Violence
(Stressed old man)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
(Self)
Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie'
(Self)
Free to Be… You and Me
(Baby Boy (voice))
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
(Self)
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
(Self)
Look Who's Talking Too
(Mr. Toilet Man (voice))
Hotel Transylvania 2
(Vlad (voice))
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
(Self)
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
(Self)
Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
(Himself)
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
(Self)
Remembering Gene Wilder
(Self)
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
(Albert Einstein (voice))
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
(Lion victim (voice))
Caesar's Writers
(Self)
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
(Self)
Young Frankenstein
(Werewolf / Cat Hit by Dart / Victor Frankenstein (voice))
Sunset People
The Last Laugh
(Self)
Fairy Tale Forest: Flower of the Dawn
(Bürgermeister (voice))
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
(Self)
Mel Brooks: The Genius Entertainer
(Himself)
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
(Shogun (voice))
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
(Self)
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
(Self)
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
(Self (archive footage))
Ballerina
(Mustachioed Creep (voice))
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
(Self)
Mickey's Audition
(Movie Director)
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
(Joe Snow (voice))
An Audience with Mel Brooks
(Self)
Ballerina
(Luteau (voice))
Untitled Lani Pixels Project
(Gatekeeper (voice))
It's Always About the Story: Conversations with Alan Ladd, Jr.
(Himself)
Peeping Times
(Adolf Hitler)
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
(Vlad (voice))
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
(Himself)
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
(Himself)
Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man
(Himself)
The Producers
(Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited))
The Great Buster: A Celebration
(Self)
The 2000 Year Old Man
(2000 Year Old Man (voice))
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
(Self)
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
(Self)
Toy Story 4
(Melephant Brooks (voice))
The Producers
(Hilda the Pigeon / Tom the Cat (voice))
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
(Self)
Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense
(Self)
Mickey's 50
(Self)
Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
(Self / Host)
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
(Melephant Brooks (voice))
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
(Self)
Life Stinks: Does Life Really Stink?
(Self)
Spaceballs: In Conversation - Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
(Self)
Back in the Saddle
(Self)
The Making of 'The Producers'
(Self)
John Candy: Comic Spirit
(Self)
'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming
(Self)
The Automat
(Self)
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
(Self (archive footage))
The Muppets Go Hollywood
(Self)
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
(Self (archive))
Mad About You
(Uncle Phil)
The Simpsons
(Mel Brooks (voice))
Noel's House Party
The David Susskind Show
(Self)
Frasier
(Tom (voice))
Inside Comedy
(Self)
The Electric Company
Curb Your Enthusiasm
(Mel Brooks)
The Hollywood Palace
(Self - Comedian)
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
(Self)
Spaceballs: The Animated Series
(President Skroob / Yogurt (voice))
Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
(Wiley (voice))
The Frank Skinner Show
(Self)
Saturday Night Clive
Glenn Martin, DDS
The Oscars
(Self)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(Self)
An Audience with...
(Self)
Only Murders in the Building
(Mel Brooks)
Wogan
(Self)
Flick Flack
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
(Self)
To Tell the Truth
(Self - Panelist)
The Mike Douglas Show
(Self)
The Hollywood Palace
(Self)
Legends
(Mel Funn (archive footage) (uncredited))
Champs-Elysées
(Self)
RTL Samstag Nacht
Broadway: The American Musical
(Self)
The Dick Cavett Show
(Self - Guest)
Real Time with Bill Maher
(Self)
The Wonderful World of Disney
(Self)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
(Self)
Primetime Glick
History of the World: Part II
(Narrator)
Bitte umblättern
(Self)
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
(Santa Claus (voice))
Arena
The Paul Reiser Show
(The Angry Cat (voice))
Great Performances
(Self)
Golden Globe Awards
(Self - Nominee)
Tony Awards
(Self - Winner)
Spaceballs
(Producer)
Spaceballs
(Director)
Spaceballs
(Screenplay)
Young Frankenstein
(Screenplay)
Young Frankenstein
(Director)
History of the World: Part I
(Director)
History of the World: Part I
(Screenplay)
History of the World: Part I
(Producer)
The Producers
(Director)
Silent Movie
(Screenplay)
Silent Movie
(Director)
Blazing Saddles
(Director)
Blazing Saddles
(Screenplay)
Life Stinks
(Director)
Life Stinks
(Screenplay)
Life Stinks
(Producer)
To Be or Not to Be
(Producer)
The Twelve Chairs
(Director)
The Twelve Chairs
(Screenplay)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
(Screenplay)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
(Director)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
(Producer)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
(Producer)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
(Director)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
(Screenplay)
High Anxiety
(Writer)
High Anxiety
(Producer)
High Anxiety
(Director)
The Producers
(Screenplay)
The Producers
(Producer)
Blazing Saddles
(Lyricist)
Blazing Saddles
(Songs)
The Producers
(Songs)
The Producers
(Lyricist)
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
(Executive Producer)
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
(Original Film Writer)
The Doctor and the Devils
(Executive Producer)
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
(Writer)
The Producers
(Writer)
Shinbone Alley
(Author)
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
(Executive Producer)
Loose Shoes
(Producer)
Fatso
(Producer)
Solarbabies
(Producer)
The Fly II
(Producer)
The Nude Bomb
(Characters)
Get Smart: A Man Called Smart
(Writer)
Ride
(Thanks)
Young Frankenstein
(Screenstory)
Sam
(Executive Producer)
The Vagrant
(Executive Producer)
The Elephant Man
(Producer)
The Fly
(Producer)
High Anxiety
(Songs)
The Producers
(Songs)
Get Smart
(Characters)
An Audience with Mel Brooks
(Writer)
Shinbone Alley
(Writer)
Spaceballs 2
(Producer)
New Faces
(Writer)
Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man
(Writer)
The Producers
(Lyricist)
The Producers
(Writer)
The Producers
(Music)
The 2000 Year Old Man
(Writer)
The Critic
(Writer)
The Critic
(Creator)
Life Stinks
(Story)
The Automat
(Songs)
84 Charing Cross Road
(Executive Producer)
When Things Were Rotten
(Producer)
Get Smart
(Writer)
History of the World: Part II
(Executive Producer)
History of the World: Part II
(Writer)
Get Smart
(Creator)
When Things Were Rotten
(Creator)
Spaceballs: The Animated Series
(Creator)
The Nutt House
(Creator)
History of the World: Part II
(Creator)