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Mel Brooks
1 FOLLOWER • 53 CREDITS • JUN 28, 1926 • 98
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.
Known For
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Frasier
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Mad About You
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Real Time with Bill Maher
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Only Murders in the Building
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Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
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The Simpsons
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Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
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Primetime Glick
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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
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Curb Your Enthusiasm
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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Toy Story 4
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Young Frankenstein
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The Prince of Egypt
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Inside Comedy
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Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights
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Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
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Hotel Transylvania 2
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The Little Rascals
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Spaceballs
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Look Who's Talking Too
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Blazing Saddles
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Robots
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Ballerina
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Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
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Mickey's Audition
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Sex, Lies and Video Violence
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Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
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If You're Not In The Obit, Eat Breakfast
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It
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The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
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Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
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History of the World: Part I
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Silent Movie
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Life Stinks
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The Oscars
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History of the World: Part II
Production Credits
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