Mel Brooks
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1926-06-28 (98 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Mel Brooks
Biography
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.
Known For
Acting
Untitled Lani Pixels Project
as Gatekeeper (voice)
Flower of the Dawn
as Bürgermeister (voice)
Mel Brooks: The Genius Entertainer
as Himself
(2025)
David Lynch, A Hollywood Enigma
as Self - Director
(2024)
Remembering Gene Wilder
as Self
(2024)
(2023)
(2023)
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
as Announcer (voice)
(2022)
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
as Shogun (voice)
(2021)
The Automat
as Self
(2019)
Toy Story 4
as Melephant Brooks (voice)
(2019)
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
as Melephant Brooks (voice)
(2018)
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
as Vlad (voice)
(2018)
(2018)
(2018)
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
as Self
(2017)
(2017)
(2017)
(2016)
Ballerina
as Mustachioed Creep (voice)
(2016)
Ballerina
as Luteau (voice)
(2016)
The Last Laugh
as Self
(2016)
(2016)
(2015)
Hotel Transylvania 2
as Vlad (voice)
(2015)
(2014)
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
as Albert Einstein (voice)
(2014)
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
as Self (archive footage)
(2013)
(2013)
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
as Self
(2012)
(2012)
(2012)
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
as Self
(2011)
(2011)
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
as Self (archive footage)
(2010)
Ruby's Studio: the Feelings Show
as Sally Simon Simmons Narrator
(2009)
(2009)
(2009)
(2009)
(2009)
(2009)
(2008)
Spaceballs: The Totally Warped Animated Adventures
as President Skroob/Yogurt
(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)
(2006)
(2005)
Robots
as Bigweld (voice)
(2005)
The Producers
as Hilda the Pigeon / Tom the Cat (voice)
(2005)
John Candy: Comic Spirit
as Self
(2005)
(2003)
(2003)
(2002)
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
as Joe Snow (voice)
(2002)
(2001)
Back in the Saddle
as Self
(2001)
(2001)
Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
as Self / Host
(2000)
Sex, Lies and Video Violence
as Stressed old man
(2000)
(2000)
(1999)
Screw Loose
as Jake Gordon
(1998)
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
as Self (archive footage)
(1997)
(1996)
Caesar's Writers
as Self
(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)
(1994)
(1993)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
as Rabbi Tuckman
(1993)
(1992)
Mickey's Audition
as Movie Director
(1991)
Life Stinks
as Goddard Bolt
(1990)
Look Who's Talking Too
as Mr. Toilet Man (voice)
(1988)
Free to Be... a Family
as Self
(1987)
Spaceballs
as President Skroob / Yogurt
(1984)
An Audience with Mel Brooks
as Self
(1984)
Sunset People
as Self
(1983)
To Be or Not to Be
as Dr. Frederick Bronski
(1981)
History of the World: Part I
as Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
(1979)
The Muppet Movie
as Professor Max Krassman
(1979)
The Muppets Go Hollywood
as Self
(1978)
Mickey's 50
as Self
(1978)
Peeping Times
as Adolf Hitler
(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)
The 2000 Year Old Man
as 2000 Year Old Man (voice)
(1974)
Young Frankenstein
as Werewolf / Cat Hit by Dart / Victor Frankenstein (voice)
(1974)
Blazing Saddles
as Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief
(1974)
Free to Be… You and Me
as Baby Boy (voice)
(1970)
The Twelve Chairs
as Tikon
(1970)
Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man
as Himself
(1968)
The Producers
as Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited)
(1963)
The Critic
as Narrator (voice)
Crew
Spaceballs 2
Producer
(2022)
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Executive Producer, Original Film Writer
(2021)
The Automat
Songs
(2019)
The Producers
Writer, Lyricist, Music
(2015)
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
Writer, Executive Producer
(2015)
Sam
Executive Producer
(2014)
Ride
Thanks
(2008)
Get Smart
Characters
(2005)
The Producers
Producer, Screenplay, Songs
(1995)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Director, Producer, Screenplay
(1993)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Director, Screenplay, Producer
(1992)
The Vagrant
Executive Producer
(1991)
Life Stinks
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Story
(1989)
The Fly II
Producer
(1987)
Spaceballs
Director, Screenplay, Producer
(1987)
84 Charing Cross Road
Executive Producer
(1986)
Solarbabies
Producer
(1986)
The Fly
Producer
(1985)
The Doctor and the Devils
Executive Producer
(1984)
(1983)
To Be or Not to Be
Producer
(1981)
History of the World: Part I
Director, Screenplay, Producer
(1980)
Fatso
Producer
(1980)
The Nude Bomb
Characters
(1980)
The Elephant Man
Producer
(1978)
Loose Shoes
Producer
(1977)
High Anxiety
Writer, Director, Producer, Songs
(1976)
Silent Movie
Director, Screenplay
(1975)
The 2000 Year Old Man
Writer
(1974)
Young Frankenstein
Director, Screenplay, Screenstory
(1974)
Blazing Saddles
Director, Screenplay, Songs, Lyricist
(1970)
The Twelve Chairs
Screenplay, Director
(1970)
Shinbone Alley
Author, Writer
(1970)
(1968)
The Producers
Director, Songs, Lyricist, Writer
(1967)
(1963)
The Critic
Writer, Creator
(1954)
New Faces
Writer