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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.
Filmography
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Movies 111
self 81
TV Shows 44
Voice 12
Writer 12
Producer 10
Director 6
Narrator 2
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic (2023)
Norman Lear: A Life on Television (2023)
Remembering Gene Wilder (2023)
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love (2023)
History of the World: Part II (2023)
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (2022)
The Automat (2021)
Only Murders in the Building (2021)
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love? (2019)
Toy Story 4 (2019)
The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018)
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2018)
GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II (2018)
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped (2018)
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies (2017)
If You're Not In The Obit, Eat Breakfast (2017)
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story (2017)
Ballerina (2016)
It's Always About the Story: Conversations with Alan Ladd, Jr. (2016)
The Last Laugh (2016)
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (2016)
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)
The Guardian Brothers (2015)
Sam (2015)
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen (2015)
Ride (2014)
Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise (2013)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (2013)
Mel Brooks Strikes Back! (2012)
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years (2012)
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012)
The David Susskind Show: Give 'em Hell Harry (2012)
Abschied von den Fröschen (2012)
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man (2012)
Inside Comedy (2012)
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again (2011)
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet (2011)
Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie' (2009)
Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense (2009)
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World (2009)
Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition (2009)
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers (2009)
Glenn Martin, DDS (2009)
Spaceballs: The Animated Series (2008)
Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control (2008)
Get Smart (2008)
Hitler: The Comedy Years (2007)
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show' (2007)
Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s (2007)
Legends (2006)
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks (2006)
The Producers (2005)
John Candy: Comic Spirit (2005)
Spaceballs: In Conversation - Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan (2005)
Robots (2005)
Broadway: The American Musical (2004)
Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (2003)
Real Time with Bill Maher (2003)
Life Stinks: Does Life Really Stink? (2003)
Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar (2003)
The Making of 'The Producers' (2002)
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2002)
Hail Sid Caesar! The Golden Age of Comedy (2002)
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed (2001)
Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks (2001)
Primetime Glick (2001)
Back in the Saddle (2001)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000)
The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV (2000)
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy (2000)
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room (2000)
Sex, Lies and Video Violence (2000)
Screw Loose (1999)
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century (1998)
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch (1997)
Ein Abend mit Peter Ustinov (1996)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
The Frank Skinner Show (1995)
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein (1994)
The Little Rascals (1994)
The Silence of the Hams (1994)
RTL Samstag Nacht (1993)
Frasier (1993)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming (1993)
Mickey's Audition (1992)
Mad About You (1992)
The Vagrant (1992)
Noel's House Party (1991)
Life Stinks (1991)
Look Who's Talking Too (1990)
The Simpsons (1989)
The Nutt House (1989)
The Fly II (1989)
Saturday Night Clive (1989)
Free to Be... a Family (1988)
Spaceballs (1987)
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
Solarbabies (1986)
The Doctor and the Devils (1985)
An Audience with Mel Brooks (1984)
Beat This!: A Hip Hop History (1984)
To Be or Not to Be (1983)
Bonjour Mr Lewis (1983)
Wogan (1982)
Champs-Elysées (1982)
History of the World: Part I (1981)
The Nude Bomb (1980)
Fatso (1980)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
The Muppets Go Hollywood (1979)
Mickey's 50 (1978)
Loose Shoes (1978)
Peeping Times (1978)
An Audience with... (1978)
High Anxiety (1977)
Bitte umblättern (1977)
Silent Movie (1976)
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
When Things Were Rotten (1975)
The 2000 Year Old Man (1975)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Free to Be… You and Me (1974)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Flick Flack (1974)
Ten from Your Show of Shows (1973)
The Electric Company (1971)
Great Performances (1971)
The Twelve Chairs (1970)
Shinbone Alley (1970)
Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man (1970)
The Dick Cavett Show (1968)
The Producers (1968)
Apropos Film (1967)
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967)
Get Smart: A Man Called Smart (1967)
Eye Guess (1966)
Get Smart (1965)
The Celebrity Game (1964)
The Hollywood Palace (1964)
The Critic (1963)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
The Ladies Man (1961)
The David Susskind Show (1959)
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1954)
New Faces (1954)
The Oscars (1953)
The Face Is Familiar
Untitled Lani Pixels Project
Naked Hollywood
David Lynch: The Idea Dictates Everything
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1926-06-28 (97 years old)
Birth NameMelvin Kaminsky
Birth PlaceBrooklyn, United States of America
Height
RelationshipsAnne Bancroft (1964-08-05 - 2005-06-06)
ChildrenMax Brooks
FatherMax James Kaminsky
MotherKate Kaminsky
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesBrooklyn · Fire Island, United States of America
Also Known AsMelvin James Kaminsky
AwardsWorld War II Victory Medal, Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, American Campaign Medal, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, Kennedy Center Honors, Tony Award for Best Original Score, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program, Saturn Award for Best Director, Academy Honorary Award, Nebula Award for Best Script, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, AFI Life Achievement Award, Grammy Hall of Fame, Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay, Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Grammy Award for Best Music Film, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical, Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical
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