Mel Brooks
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
144
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 Mike Douglas Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Golden Globe Awards
Frasier
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Real Time with Bill Maher
Great Performances
Only Murders in the Building
The Dick Cavett Show
Wogan
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Mad About You
Champs-Elysées
History of the World: Part II
The Oscars
To Tell the Truth
Toy Story 4
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Silent Movie
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Robots
Spaceballs
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Hotel Transylvania 2
The Frank Skinner Show
An Audience with...
High Anxiety
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
RTL Samstag Nacht
Legends
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
The Little Rascals
Glenn Martin, DDS
Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
The Muppet Movie
Sunset People
Ballerina
Ballerina
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Inside Comedy
Please Turn the Page
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
Primetime Glick
Somebody Feed Phil
History of the World: Part I
The Electric Company
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
The Producers
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Hollywood Palace
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie'
Enormous
The Producers
Untitled Lani Pixels Project
The David Susskind Show
John Candy: I Like Me
When Things Were Rotten
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
Noel's House Party
Spaceballs: The Animated Series
Spaceballs: The Documentary
Look Who's Talking Too
Screw Loose
Flick Flack
Life Stinks
Broadway: The American Musical
The Twelve Chairs
To Be or Not to Be
The Great Buster: A Celebration
The Silence of the Hams
The Grammys
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Spaceballs 2
Saturday Night Clive
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
An Audience with Mel Brooks
The Paul Reiser Show
The Last Laugh
Sex, Lies and Video Violence
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
Hitler: The Comedy Years
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
John Candy: Comic Spirit
The Muppets Go Hollywood
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
Mickey's 50
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
From Darkness to Light
The Land of Sometimes
The Automat
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
Free to Be… You and Me
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Remembering Gene Wilder
Free to Be... a Family
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Flower of the Dawn
Peeping Times
The Making of 'The Producers'
Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
Back in the Saddle
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
The Critic
Mickey's Audition
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man
Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition
Spaceballs: The Totally Warped Animated Adventures
It's Always About the Story: Conversations with Alan Ladd, Jr.
The 2000 Year Old Man
Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
Caesar's Writers
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
Spaceballs: In Conversation - Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
Ruby's Studio: the Feelings Show
Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man
Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
David Lynch: The Idea Dictates Everything
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
Mel Brooks: The Genius Entertainer
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
Life Stinks: Does Life Really Stink?
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
Mel Brooks: Seriously... Well, Almost
