1926-06-28 ( 98 years old ) in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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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.
Movies
David Lynch, A Hollywood Enigma
2025-01-17
Mel Brooks: Seriously... Well, Almost
2024-12-27
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024-03-15
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023-12-21
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
2023-05-27
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
2022-07-14
The Automat
2021-09-02
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
2019-12-06
Toy Story 4
2019-06-19
The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018-10-05
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
2018-06-28
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018-06-06
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018-02-17
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
2017-11-12
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
2017-05-19
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
2017-02-01
Ballerina
2016-12-14
Ballerina
2016-12-14
The Last Laugh
2016-04-18
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
2016-01-21
Hotel Transylvania 2
2015-09-21
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
2015-01-31
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
2014-05-06
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
2014-02-07
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
2013-05-20
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013-04-23
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
2012-12-10
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
2012-11-13
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man
2012-03-01
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
2011-09-09
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
2011-05-24
Ruby's Studio: the Feelings Show
2010-08-15
Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition
2009-12-15
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007-05-10
Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
2007-04-10
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
2006-09-07
The Producers
2005-12-25
John Candy: Comic Spirit
2005-05-03
Robots
2005-03-10
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
2003-12-24
Life Stinks: Does Life Really Stink?
2003-02-18
The Making of 'The Producers'
2002-12-03
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
2001-12-11
Back in the Saddle
2001-06-19
Sex, Lies and Video Violence
2000-05-05
Screw Loose
1999-02-19
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
1998-05-15
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
1997-10-14
Caesar's Writers
1996-08-19
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
1995-12-22
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994-10-25
The Little Rascals
1994-08-05
The Silence of the Hams
1994-03-11
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
1993-07-28
Mickey's Audition
1992-10-01
Life Stinks
1991-06-05
Look Who's Talking Too
1990-12-14
Free to Be... a Family
1988-12-14
Spaceballs
1987-06-24
Sunset People
1984-03-03
An Audience with Mel Brooks
1984-02-04
To Be or Not to Be
1983-12-16
History of the World: Part I
1981-06-12
The Muppet Movie
1979-06-22
The Muppets Go Hollywood
1979-05-16
Mickey's 50
1978-11-19
Peeping Times
1978-01-25
High Anxiety
1977-12-25
Silent Movie
1976-06-17
The 2000 Year Old Man
1975-01-11
Young Frankenstein
1974-12-15
Free to Be… You and Me
1974-03-11
Blazing Saddles
1974-02-07
The Twelve Chairs
1970-10-28
Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man
1970-02-18
The Producers
1968-03-18
The Critic
1963-05-20
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