Mel Brooks
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
146
Gender
Male
Birthday
1926-06-28 (99 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Mel Brooks
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
The Simpsons
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
Only Murders in the Building
Great Performances
Real Time with Bill Maher
Frasier
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Tony Awards
Golden Globe Awards
John Candy: I Like Me
Wogan
Champs-Elysées
Mad About You
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
The Dick Cavett Show
Hotel Transylvania 2
An Audience with...
Toy Story 4
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
The Oscars
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
The Electric Company
Please Turn the Page
To Tell the Truth
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
RTL Samstag Nacht
Legends
The Little Rascals
The Hollywood Palace
The Hollywood Palace
History of the World: Part II
Robots
Spaceballs
The Frank Skinner Show
Remembering Gene Wilder
High Anxiety
Glenn Martin, DDS
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
From Darkness to Light
Inside Comedy
The Muppet Movie
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Ballerina
Ballerina
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Noel's House Party
Primetime Glick
The Automat
Blazing Saddles
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
Young Frankenstein
Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie'
Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
Somebody Feed Phil
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
Spaceballs: The Documentary
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming
Silent Movie
To Be or Not to Be
Screw Loose
Sunset People
History of the World: Part I
The David Susskind Show
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Life Stinks
Mickey's Audition
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
When Things Were Rotten
The Muppets Go Hollywood
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Free to Be… You and Me
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man
The Silence of the Hams
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
Spaceballs 2
Look Who's Talking Too
Mickey's 50
The Producers
Flower of the Dawn
Spaceballs: The Animated Series
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Last Laugh
The Land of Sometimes
The 2000 Year Old Man
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
Caesar's Writers
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
The Producers
Flick Flack
Saturday Night Clive
Back in the Saddle
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
The Paul Reiser Show
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
Untitled Lani Pixels Project
Free to Be... a Family
John Candy: Comic Spirit
Broadway: The American Musical
Spaceballs: The Totally Warped Animated Adventures
Peeping Times
The Grammys
Enormous
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Ruby's Studio: the Feelings Show
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
The Making of 'The Producers'
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man
The Great Buster: A Celebration
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
The Critic
Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words
Mel Brooks: The Genius Entertainer
Sex, Lies and Video Violence
The Twelve Chairs
Ben Dover Vs: Osama Bin Laden
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
Mel Brooks: Seriously... Well, Almost
Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
Life Stinks: Does Life Really Stink?
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
It's Always About the Story: Conversations with Alan Ladd, Jr.
David Lynch: The Idea Dictates Everything
Spaceballs: In Conversation - Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
