Mel Brooks
Age: N/A | From: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Melvin James Kaminsky
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 103
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
(1965) Creator
Spaceballs
(1987) Director
The Fly
(1986) Producer
When Things Were Rotten
(1975) Creator
History of the World: Part II
(2023) Creator
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
(2022) Original Film Writer
Get Smart
(2008) Characters
History of the World: Part I
(1981) ScreenplayActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Self | |
| 2023 | 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 | ||
| Self | ||
| 2016 | Mustachioed Creep (voice) | |
| Luteau (voice) | ||
| Self - Panelist | ||
| 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 | President Skroob / Yogurt (voice) | |
| 2007 | Singer in 'Springtime for Hitler' (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2006 | Mel Funn (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Self | ||
| 2005 | Hilda the Pigeon / Tom the Cat (voice) | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Bigweld (voice) | ||
| 2004 | Self | |
| 2003 | Joe Snow (voice) | |
| Wiley (voice) | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Himself | ||
| 2002 | Self | |
| Santa Claus (voice) | ||
| 2001 | Self | |
| Self / Host | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| 2000 | Mel Brooks | |
| Himself | ||
| Himself | ||
| Stressed old man | ||
| 1999 | Jake Gordon | |
| 1998 | Self | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1997 | Self | |
| 1996 | 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 | ||
| 1991 | N/A | |
| Goddard Bolt | ||
| 1990 | Mr. Toilet Man (voice) | |
| 1989 | Mel Brooks (voice) | |
| N/A | ||
| 1988 | Self | |
| 1987 | President Skroob / Yogurt | |
| 1984 | N/A | |
| 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 - Comedian | |
| Self | ||
| 1963 | Narrator (voice) | |
| 1962 | Self | |
| 1961 | Self | |
| 1959 | Self | |
| 1954 | Self | |
| 1953 | Self | |
| Gatekeeper (voice) | ||
| Bürgermeister (voice) | ||
| Himself | ||
| Melephant Brooks | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Executive Producer | |
| 2022 | Executive Producer | |
| 2015 | Executive Producer | |
| Executive Producer | ||
| 2005 | Producer | |
| 1995 | Producer | |
| 1993 | Producer | |
| 1992 | Executive Producer | |
| 1991 | Producer | |
| 1989 | Producer | |
| 1987 | Producer | |
| Executive Producer | ||
| 1986 | Producer | |
| Producer | ||
| 1985 | Executive Producer | |
| 1983 | Producer | |
| 1981 | Producer | |
| 1980 | Producer | |
| Producer | ||
| 1978 | Producer | |
| 1977 | Producer | |
| 1975 | Producer | |
| Producer | ||
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Writer | |
| 2022 | Original Film Writer | |
| 2019 | Writer | |
| Lyricist | ||
| 2015 | Writer | |
| 2008 | Characters | |
| 2005 | Screenplay | |
| 1995 | Screenplay | |
| 1993 | Screenplay | |
| 1991 | Screenplay | |
| Story | ||
| 1987 | Screenplay | |
| 1984 | Writer | |
| 1981 | Screenplay | |
| 1980 | Characters | |
| 1977 | Writer | |
| 1976 | Screenplay | |
| 1975 | Writer | |
| 1974 | Screenplay | |
| Screenstory | ||
| Screenplay | ||
| Lyricist | ||
| 1970 | Screenplay | |
| Author | ||
| Writer | ||
| Writer | ||
| 1968 | Writer | |
| Lyricist | ||
| 1967 | Writer | |
| 1965 | Writer | |
| 1963 | Writer | |
| 1954 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Creator
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Creator | |
| 2008 | Creator | |
| 1989 | Creator | |
| 1975 | Creator | |
| 1965 | Creator | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Sound
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Songs | |
| 2019 | Music | |
| 2005 | Songs | |
| 1977 | Songs | |
| 1974 | Songs | |
| 1968 | Songs | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Thanks | |
| 1963 | Creator | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Director | |
| 1993 | Director | |
| 1991 | Director | |
| 1987 | Director | |
| 1981 | Director | |
| 1977 | Director | |
| 1976 | Director | |
| 1974 | Director | |
| Director | ||
| 1970 | Director | |
| 1968 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |