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Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks

Actor · b. 1926 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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.

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  • Movie7.5

    Toy Story 4

    2019 · 10K votes

  • Movie6.9

    Spaceballs

    1987 · 3.5K votes

  • Movie6.5

    Robots

    2005 · 5.1K votes

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    Hotel Transylvania 2

    2015 · 6.3K votes

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    The Little Rascals

    1994 · 1.4K votes

  • Movie7.2

    Ballerina

    2016 · 2K votes

  • Movie6.7

    Mr. Peabody & Sherman

    2014 · 2.6K votes

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    Robin Hood: Men in Tights

    1993 · 2.4K votes

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    Blazing Saddles

    1974 · 2.2K votes

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    Young Frankenstein

    1974 · 3.5K votes

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    The Muppet Movie

    1979 · 721 votes

  • Movie7.9

    John Candy: I Like Me

    2025 · 118 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Look Who's Talking Too

    1990 · 1.5K votes

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    The Producers

    2005 · 535 votes

  • Movie7.1

    The Producers

    1968 · 934 votes

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    Dracula: Dead and Loving It

    1995 · 1.1K votes

  • Movie6.7

    To Be or Not to Be

    1983 · 240 votes

  • Movie6.4

    High Anxiety

    1977 · 417 votes

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  • Movie5.6

    Life Stinks

    1991 · 227 votes

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    The Land of Sometimes

    2026 · 5 votes

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  • TV7.5
  • TV8.0

    The Simpsons

    1989 · 11K votes

  • TV5.8

    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV5.3

    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    2003 · 217 votes

  • TV7.7

    Frasier

    1993 · 935 votes

  • TV6.0

    Real Time with Bill Maher

    2003 · 248 votes

  • TV7.0

    Golden Globe Awards

    1944 · 20 votes

  • TV8.0

    Curb Your Enthusiasm

    2000 · 974 votes

  • TV6.1

    Great Performances

    1971 · 25 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Dick Cavett Show

    1968 · 22 votes

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  • TV5.3

    Wogan

    1982 · 7 votes

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  • TV6.8

    Champs-Elysées

    1982 · 9 votes

  • TV6.8

    Mad About You

    1992 · 266 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

  • TV7.3

    The Electric Company

    1971 · 26 votes

  • TV7.4
  • TV5.3

    An Audience with...

    1978 · 3 votes

  • TV5.0

    Ciné regards

    1978 · 1 votes

  • TV5.1

    Film '72

    1971 · 8 votes

  • TV5.8

    To Tell the Truth

    2016 · 10 votes

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  • TV6.8