Birthday
1926-06-28Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USABiography
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.Free Trial Channels
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Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
2019
7
as Melephant Brooks (voice)
2019
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
2017
7.9
as Himself
2017
If You're Not In The Obit, Eat Breakfast
2017
7.5
as Self
2017
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
2011
8
as Self
2011
Spaceballs: The Animated Series
2008
4.2
as President Skroob / Yogurt (voice)
2008
Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
2007
5.8
as
2007
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
2002
6.3
as Joe Snow (voice)
2002
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
1998
6.8
as Self (archive footage)
1998