Person Details

Birthday: 1926-06-28 06:19:08

Aliases: Melvin James Kaminsky

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA

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Movie Involvements: 98

TV Involvements: 15


Most Famous Work

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

Get Smart
Average
8

Get Smart

(1965) Creator
History of the World: Part II
Average
5
The Fly
Average
7

The Fly

(1986) Producer
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Average
7

Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank

(2022) Original Film Writer
When Things Were Rotten
Average
8

When Things Were Rotten

(1975) Creator
Spaceballs
Average
7

Spaceballs

(1987) Screenplay
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Average
6

Dracula: Dead and Loving It

(1995) Screenplay
Get Smart
Average
6

Get Smart

(2008) Characters

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Self
Self
Announcer (voice)
Narrator
2022 Shogun (voice)
2021 Self
Mel Brooks
2019 Melephant Brooks (voice)
Melephant Brooks (voice)
2018 Self
Vlad (voice)
Self
Self
2017 Self
Self
Himself
2016 Mustachioed Creep (voice)
Luteau (voice)
Himself
Self
Self
2015 Vlad (voice)
Self
2014 Albert Einstein (voice)
2013 Self
Self
2012 Self
Self
Self
Self
Self
2011 Self
Self (archive footage)
2009 Self
Self
Self
Self
Self
N/A
2008 N/A
2007 Self
N/A
2006 Mel Funn (archive footage) (uncredited)
Self
2005 Hilda the Pigeon / Tom the Cat (voice)
Self
Self
Bigweld (voice)
2004 Self
2003 Wiley (voice)
Self
Self
Himself
2002 Self
Joe Snow (voice)
Santa Claus (voice)
2001 Self
Self / Host
N/A
Self
2000 Mel Brooks
Himself
Himself
Stressed old man
1999 Jake Gordon
1998 (voice) (uncredited)
Self
Self (archive footage)
1997 Self
1995 Prof. Abraham Van Helsing
Self
1994 Self
Mr. Welling
Checkout Guest (uncredited)
1993 N/A
Tom (voice)
Rabbi Tuckman
Self
1992 Movie Director
Uncle Phil
N/A
1991 N/A
Goddard Bolt
1990 Mr. Toilet Man (voice)
1989 Mel Brooks (voice)
N/A
1988 Self
1987 President Skroob / Yogurt
1984 Self
1983 Dr. Frederick Bronski
1982 Self
Self
1981 Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
1979 Professor Max Krassman
Self
1978 Self
Adolf Hitler
Self
1977 Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke
Self
1976 Mel Funn
1975 Lion victim (voice)
2000 Year Old Man (voice)
1974 Werewolf / Cat Hit by Dart / Victor Frankenstein (voice)
Baby Boy (voice)
Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief
N/A
1971 N/A
Self
1970 Tikon
Himself
1968 Self - Guest
Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited)
1967 Self
1964 Self
Self - Comedian
1963 Narrator (voice)
1962 Self
1959 Self
1954 Self
1953 Self
Gatekeeper (voice)
Year Character Movie/Tv

Production

Writing

Creator

Sound

Crew

Year Role Movie/Tv
2014 Thanks
1963 Creator
Year Role Movie/Tv

Directing


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