Mel Brooks
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 28, 1926 (age 100)
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and songwriter. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 21 entertainers to win the EGOT (which includes an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony). He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and the Honorary Academy Award in 2024. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows(1950–1954). There, he worked with Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart, and Carl Reiner. With Reiner, he co-created the comedy sketch The 2000 Year Old Man. He released several comedy albums, starting with 2000 Year Old Man in 1960. Brooks received five nominations for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, finally winning in 1999. With Buck Henry, he created the hit satirical spy comedy series Get Smart (1965–1970) on NBC television. Brooks won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Producers (1967). He then rose to prominence by directing a string of successful comedy films such as The Twelve Chairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), and High Anxiety (1977). Later, Brooks made History of the World, Part I (1981), Spaceballs (1987), Life Stinks (1991), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995). A musical adaptation of his first film, The Producers, ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007 and earned Brooks three Tony Awards. The project was remade into a musical film in 2005. He wrote and produced the Hulu series History of the World, Part II (2023). Brooks was married to actress Anne Bancroft from 1964 until she died in 2005. Their son, Max Brooks, is an actor and author known for his novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006). In 2021, Mel Brooks published his memoir titled All About Me!. Three of his films are included on the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy films of the past 100 years (1900–2000), all of which were ranked in the top 15: Blazing Saddles at number 6, The Producers at number 11, and Young Frankenstein at number 13.
Known For
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Filmography
Untitled Lani Pixels Project
Movie · as Gatekeeper (voice)
Enormous
Movie · as Bernie (voice)
Untitled Nathan Lane Documentary
Movie · as Self
Funny Men in Tights: Three Generations of Comedy
Movie · as Self
Grown Ups 3
Movie
Spaceballs: The New One
Movie · as President Skroob / Yogurt
The Land of Sometimes
Movie · as The Postman (voice)
Addicted to It
Movie · as Phoney Bunny
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Flower of the Dawn
Movie · as Bürgermeister (voice)
From Darkness to Light
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
John Candy: I Like Me
Movie · as Self - Director, Spaceballs
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
Movie
Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words
Movie · as Self
Remembering Gene Wilder
Movie · as Self
Mel Brooks: Seriously... Well, Almost
Movie · as Self
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
Movie · as Self - Announcer (voice)
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Movie · as Self
History of the World: Part II
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 8 eps
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Movie · as Shogun (voice)
The Automat
Movie · as Self
Only Murders in the Building
TV · as Mel Brooks · 1 ep
Toy Story 4
Movie · as Melephant Brooks (voice)
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
Movie · as Melephant Brooks (voice)
Forky Asks a Question
TV · as Melephant Brooks (voice) · 1 ep
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Movie · as Self
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Movie · as Vlad (voice)
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Movie · as Self
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Movie · as Self
Somebody Feed Phil
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
Movie · as Self
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
Movie · as Self
Mel Brooks: The Genius Entertainer
Movie · as Himself
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
Movie · as Self
The Last Laugh
Movie · as Self
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Movie · as Self
Ballerina
Movie · as Luteau (US version)
It's Always About the Story: Conversations with Alan Ladd, Jr.
Movie · as Himself
To Tell the Truth
TV · as Self - Panelist · 2 eps
Hotel Transylvania 2
Movie · as Vlad (voice)
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
Movie · as Self
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Movie · as Albert Einstein (voice)
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Movie · as Self
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Movie · as Self
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man
Movie · as Self
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
Movie · as Self
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
Movie · as Self
Inside Comedy
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
Movie · as Self
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Paul Reiser Show
TV · as The Angry Cat (voice) · 1 ep
Ruby's Studio: the Feelings Show
Movie · as Sally Simon Simmons Narrator
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
Movie · as Self
Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition
Movie · as Self
Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie'
Movie · as Self
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
Movie · as Self
Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense
Movie · as Self
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
Movie · as Self (archive)
Glenn Martin, DDS
TV · 1 ep
Spaceballs: The Totally Warped Animated Adventures
Movie · as President Skroob/Yogurt
Spaceballs: The Animated Series
TV · as President Skroob / Yogurt (voice) · 15 eps
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Movie · as Singer in 'Springtime for Hitler' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
Movie · as Self
Legends
TV · as Mel Funn (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1 ep
Robots
Movie · as Bigweld (voice)
The Producers
Movie · as Hilda the Pigeon / Tom the Cat (voice)
Spaceballs: In Conversation - Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
Movie · as Self
John Candy: Comic Spirit
Movie · as Self
Spaceballs: The Documentary
Movie · as Self
Broadway: The American Musical
TV · as Self · 6 eps
Parkinson
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
Movie · as Himself
Life Stinks: Does Life Really Stink?
Movie · as Self
Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
TV · as Wiley (voice) · 52 eps
Real Time with Bill Maher
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
Movie · as Joe Snow (voice)
The Making of 'The Producers'
Movie · as Self
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
TV · as Santa Claus (voice) · 1 ep
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
Movie · as Self
Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
Movie · as Self / Host
Back in the Saddle
Movie · as Self
Primetime Glick
TV · 1 ep
Sex, Lies and Video Violence
Movie · as Stressed old man
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
Movie · as Himself
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
Movie · as Himself
Curb Your Enthusiasm
TV · as Mel Brooks · 4 eps
Screw Loose
Movie · as Jake Gordon
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
Movie · as Self
Caesar's Writers
Movie · as Self
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Movie · as Prof. Abraham Van Helsing
The Frank Skinner Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Movie · as Self
The Silence of the Hams
Movie · as Checkout Guest (uncredited)
The Little Rascals
Movie · as Mr. Welling
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Movie · as Rabbi Tuckman
'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming
Movie · as Self
Frasier
TV · as Tom (voice) · 1 ep
RTL Samstag Nacht
TV · 1 ep
Live & Kicking
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Mickey's Audition
Movie · as Movie Director
Mad About You
TV · as Uncle Phil · 4 eps
Life Stinks
Movie · as Goddard Bolt
Noel's House Party
TV · 1 ep
Look Who's Talking Too
Movie · as Mr. Toilet Man (voice)
The Simpsons
TV · as Mel Brooks (voice) · 1 ep
Saturday Night Clive
TV · 1 ep
Free to Be... a Family
Movie · as Self
Spaceballs
Movie · as President Skroob / Yogurt
Sunset People
Movie · as Self
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Movie · as Self
To Be or Not to Be
Movie · as Dr. Frederick Bronski
Wogan
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Champs-Elysées
TV · as Self · 1 ep
History of the World: Part I
Movie · as Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
The Muppet Movie
Movie · as Professor Max Krassman
The Muppets Go Hollywood
Movie · as Self (uncredited)
Peeping Times
Movie · as Adolf Hitler
Mickey's 50
Movie · as Self
An Audience with...
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Ciné regards
TV · as Self · 2 eps
High Anxiety
Movie · as Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke
Please Turn the Page
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Everyman
TV · 1 ep
Silent Movie
Movie · as Mel Funn
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Movie · as Lion victim (voice)
The 2000 Year Old Man
Movie · as 2000 Year Old Man (voice)
When Things Were Rotten
TV · as Guard (uncredited) · 1 ep
Blazing Saddles
Movie · as William Le Petomane / Indian Chief
Free to Be… You and Me
Movie · as Baby Boy (voice)
Young Frankenstein
Movie · as Werewolf / Cat / Victor Frankenstein (voice) (uncredited)
Flick Flack
TV · 1 ep
The Electric Company
TV · as Blond-Haired Cartoon Man (voice) · 780 eps
Great Performances
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Film '72
TV · as Self · 3 eps
The Twelve Chairs
Movie · as Tikon
Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man
Movie · as Himself
The Producers
Movie · as Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited)
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV · as Self (uncredited) · 1 ep
The Dick Cavett Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps
The Hollywood Palace
TV · as Self · 4 eps
The Critic
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 6 eps
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The New Steve Allen Show
TV · as Self - 2000 Year Old Man · 2 eps
The David Susskind Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Grammys
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Winner · 1 ep
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Nominee · 1 ep