Mel Brooks
Acting
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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.
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Filmography of
Mel Brooks
Shogun (voice)
... 2022
Self
... 2021
Melephant Brooks (voice)
... 2019
Melephant Brooks (voice)
... 2019
... 2018
Vlad (voice)
... 2018
... 2018
... 2018
... 2017
... 2017
... 2017
Mustachioed Creep (voice)
... 2016
Luteau (voice)
... 2016
... 2016
Self
... 2016
Vlad (voice)
... 2015
... 2015
Albert Einstein (voice)
... 2014
... 2013
... 2013
Himself
... 2012
... 2012
... 2012
... 2011
Self (archive footage)
... 2011
... 2009
... 2009
... 2009
... 2009
... 2009
... 2006
Hilda the Pigeon / Tom the Cat (voice)
... 2005
... 2005
Bigweld (voice)
... 2005
... 2003
... 2003
... 2002
Joe Snow (voice)
... 2002
... 2001
Himself - Host
... 2001
Self
... 2001
... 2000
... 2000
Stressed old man
... 2000
Jake Gordon
... 1999
(voice) (uncredited)
... 1998
Self (archive footage)
... 1998
... 1997
Prof. Abraham Van Helsing
... 1995
... 1994
Mr. Welling
... 1994
Checkout Guest (uncredited)
... 1994
Rabbi Tuckman
... 1993
... 1993
Movie Director
... 1992
Goddard Bolt
... 1991
Mr. Toilet Man (voice)
... 1990
... 1988
President Skroob / Yogurt
... 1987
... 1984
Dr. Frederick Bronski
... 1983
Moses/Comicus/Torquemada/Jacques/King Louis XVI
... 1981
Professor Max Krassman
... 1979
Himself
... 1979
Self
... 1978
Adolf Hitler
... 1978
Richard H. Thorndyke
... 1977
Mel Funn
... 1976
2000 Year Old Man (voice)
... 1975
Werewolf / Cat Hit by Dart / Victor Frankenstein (voice)
... 1974
Baby Boy (voice)
... 1974
Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief
... 1974
Tikon
... 1970
... 1970
Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited)
... 1967
Narrator (voice)
... 1963
Gatekeeper (voice)