Mel Brooks
Acting
🎂 1926-06-28
Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; born 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mel Brooks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cast credits(138)
Self
1962
Self
1982
Mel Brooks (voice)
1989
Mel Brooks
2000
Self
1971
Self
1995
Self
1961
Tom (voice)
1993
Self - Guest
1968
Mel Brooks
2021
1971
Self - Nominee
1944
1991
Self - Comedian
1964
Self
1964
Uncle Phil
1992
Santa Claus (voice)
2002
Self
2012
Self - Winner
1956
Self
2003
1993
Self
1978
Self
1953
2001
Self
2012
Narrator
2023
Mel Funn (archive footage) (uncredited)
2006
Self
1959
Wiley (voice)
2003
Self - Panelist
2016
Self
1982
1974
Self
1954
Self
1977
2009
President Skroob / Yogurt
1987
Melephant Brooks (voice)
2019
President Skroob / Yogurt (voice)
2008
Self
1968
Bigweld (voice)
2005
Vlad (voice)
2018
Mustachioed Creep (voice)
2016
Luteau (voice)
2016
Vlad (voice)
2015
Self
2004
Mr. Welling
1994
Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief
1974
Shogun (voice)
2022
Albert Einstein (voice)
2014
Rabbi Tuckman
1993
Werewolf / Cat Hit by Dart / Victor Frankenstein (voice)
1974
Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
1981
Professor Max Krassman
1979
1989
Mr. Toilet Man (voice)
1990
Prof. Abraham Van Helsing
1995
Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited)
1968
Hilda the Pigeon / Tom the Cat (voice)
2005
President Skroob / Yogurt
Self
1959
Goddard Bolt
1991
Dr. Frederick Bronski
1983
Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke
1977
Announcer (voice)
2023
The Angry Cat (voice)
2011
Joe Snow (voice)
2002
Checkout Guest (uncredited)
1994
Self
2018
Self
2016
Mel Funn
1976
Gatekeeper (voice)
Self
1997
Self
2023
Self
1994
Self
2018
Tikon
1970
Self
1984
Lion victim (voice)
1975
Self
2017
Self - Director
2025
Self
2024
Self
1979
Self
1993
Self
2016
Self
2017
Self (archive footage)
2007
Self
2013
Narrator (voice)
1963
Self
2021
Self
2013
Self
2018
Singer in 'Springtime for Hitler' (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007
Baby Boy (voice)
1974
Self
2001
Self (archive footage)
2011
Self
2005
Bürgermeister (voice)
Self
1978
Stressed old man
2000
Melephant Brooks (voice)
2019
Jake Gordon
1999
Self
2015
Self (archive footage)
2025
Himself
1970
Self
2005
Self
2002
Himself
2000
Himself
2016
Self
2012
Self
1988
Self
2017
Himself
Adolf Hitler
1978
Self
1996
Self (archive)
2009
Movie Director
1992
Self (archive footage)
1998
Self
2011
2000 Year Old Man (voice)
1975
Self
2009
Self
2012
Self
2003
Self / Host
2001
Self
2005
Himself
2003
Himself
2000
Self
2009
Self
2009
Self
2009
Self
2001
Self
2009
Self (archive footage)
2014
Sally Simon Simmons Narrator
2010
Self
1984
Self
2024
President Skroob/Yogurt
2008
Self
2012
Self
2006
Writing (34)
Writer
1965
Writer
2023
Screenplay
1987
Writer
2008
Screenplay
1974
Lyricist
1974
Original Film Writer
2022
Screenplay
1993
Screenplay
1974
Screenstory
1974
Characters
2008
Screenplay
1981
Screenplay
1995
Lyricist
1968
Writer
1968
Screenplay
2005
Original Film Writer
Screenplay
1991
Story
1991
Writer
1977
Characters
1980
Screenplay
1976
Screenplay
1970
Writer
1984
Writer
1954
Writer
1963
Writer
2015
Writer
1970
Writer
1967
Author
1970
Writer
1970
Writer
1975
Lyricist
2019
Writer
2019
Creator (5)
Production (24)
Executive Producer
2023
Producer
1987
Executive Producer
2008
Producer
1980
Producer
1986
Executive Producer
2022
Producer
1993
Producer
1975
Producer
1981
Producer
1995
Producer
1989
Producer
2005
Producer
Producer
1991
Producer
1983
Producer
1977
Producer
1986
Executive Producer
1987
Executive Producer
2015
Executive Producer
1992
Producer
1980
Executive Producer
1985
Producer
1978
Executive Producer
2015
