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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 28, 1926
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Melvin James Kaminsky
- مل بروکس
Mel Brooks
2.4 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
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The Postman (voice)
The Land of Sometimes
2026
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The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
2025
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Bürgermeister (voice)
Flower of the Dawn
2025
7.8
Self - Director, Spaceballs
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
0.0
Self
Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words
2025
6.7
Self (archive footage)
From Darkness to Light
2025
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4.0
Self
Mel Brooks: Seriously... Well, Almost
2024
7.2
Self
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024
7.8
Self
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023
5.9
Announcer (voice)
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
2023
Credits
The Land of Sometimes
as The Postman (voice)
2026
0.0
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
2025
0.0
Flower of the Dawn
as Bürgermeister (voice)
2025
0.0
John Candy: I Like Me
as Self - Director, Spaceballs
2025
7.8
Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words
as Self
2025
0.0
From Darkness to Light
as Self (archive footage)
2025
6.7
🎬
Mel Brooks: Seriously... Well, Almost
as Self
2024
4.0
Remembering Gene Wilder
as Self
2024
7.2
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
as Self
2023
7.8
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
as Announcer (voice)
2023
5.9
History of the World: Part II
as Narrator
2023
5.6
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
as Shogun (voice)
2022
6.7
The Automat
as Self
2021
7.0
Only Murders in the Building
as Mel Brooks
2021
8.5
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
as Melephant Brooks (voice)
2019
6.4
Toy Story 4
as Melephant Brooks (voice)
2019
7.5
The Great Buster: A Celebration
as Self
2018
7.2
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
as Vlad (voice)
2018
6.9
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
as Self
2018
6.9
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
as Self
2018
6.4
Somebody Feed Phil
as Self
2018
7.3
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
as Self
2017
5.4
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
as Self
2017
7.1
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
as Self
2017
6.8
Ballerina
as Mustachioed Creep (voice)
2016
7.2
Ballerina
as Luteau (voice)
2016
7.2
To Tell the Truth
as Self - Panelist
2016
6.2
It's Always About the Story: Conversations with Alan Ladd, Jr.
as Himself
2016
5.5
The Last Laugh
as Self
2016
6.9
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
as Self
2016
7.1
Hotel Transylvania 2
as Vlad (voice)
2015
6.8
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
as Self
2015
6.8
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
as Self (archive footage)
2014
0.0
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
as Albert Einstein (voice)
2014
6.7
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
as Self
2013
8.2
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as Self
2013
7.0
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
as Self
2012
6.5
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
as Self
2012
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Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
as Self
2012
7.1
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man
as Self
2012
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Inside Comedy
as Self
2012
6.5
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
as Self
2011
7.9
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
as Self (archive footage)
2011
6.0
🎬
The Paul Reiser Show
as The Angry Cat (voice)
2011
6.0
Ruby's Studio: the Feelings Show
as Sally Simon Simmons Narrator
2010
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Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie'
as Self
2009
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Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense
as Self
2009
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Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition
as Self
2009
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Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
as Self
2009
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A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
as Self
2009
6.7
Glenn Martin, DDS
2009
6.3
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
as Self (archive)
2009
0.0
Spaceballs: The Animated Series
as President Skroob / Yogurt (voice)
2008
4.3
Spaceballs: The Totally Warped Animated Adventures
as President Skroob/Yogurt
2008
0.0
Hitler: The Comedy Years
as Singer in 'Springtime for Hitler' (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007
5.0
🎬
Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
as Self (archive footage)
2007
0.0
Legends
as Mel Funn (archive footage) (uncredited)
2006
5.0
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
as Self
2006
0.0
The Producers
as Hilda the Pigeon / Tom the Cat (voice)
2005
6.2
Spaceballs: The Documentary
as Self
2005
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John Candy: Comic Spirit
as Self
2005
6.0
Spaceballs: In Conversation - Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
as Self
2005
6.0
Robots
as Bigweld (voice)
2005
6.5
Broadway: The American Musical
as Self
2004
7.8
Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
as Wiley (voice)
2003
5.9
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
2003
6.0
Life Stinks: Does Life Really Stink?
as Self
2003
4.5
Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
as Himself
2003
0.0
The Making of 'The Producers'
as Self
2002
7.5
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
as Joe Snow (voice)
2002
6.0
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
as Santa Claus (voice)
2002
7.4
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
as Self
2001
6.5
Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
as Self / Host
2001
9.0
Primetime Glick
2001
6.8
Back in the Saddle
as Self
2001
6.0
Curb Your Enthusiasm
as Mel Brooks
2000
8.0
🎬
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
as Himself
2000
0.0
🎬
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
as Himself
2000
0.0
Sex, Lies and Video Violence
as Stressed old man
2000
5.1
Screw Loose
as Jake Gordon
1999
4.0
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
as Self (archive footage)
1998
7.7
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
as Self
1997
7.0
Caesar's Writers
as Self
1996
0.0
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
as Prof. Abraham Van Helsing
1995
6.1
The Frank Skinner Show
as Self
1995
7.5
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
as Self
1994
8.5
The Little Rascals
as Mr. Welling
1994
6.8
The Silence of the Hams
as Checkout Guest (uncredited)
1994
4.9
RTL Samstag Nacht
1993
8.0
Frasier
as Tom (voice)
1993
7.7
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
as Rabbi Tuckman
1993
6.6
'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming
as Self
1993
6.4
🎬
Mickey's Audition
as Movie Director
1992
4.0
Mad About You
as Uncle Phil
1992
6.7
Noel's House Party
1991
7.2
Life Stinks
as Goddard Bolt
1991
5.7
Look Who's Talking Too
as Mr. Toilet Man (voice)
1990
5.5
The Simpsons
as Mel Brooks (voice)
1989
8.0
🎬
Saturday Night Clive
1989
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Free to Be... a Family
as Self
1988
9.3
Spaceballs
as President Skroob / Yogurt
1987
6.9
Sunset People
as Self
1984
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An Audience with Mel Brooks
as Self
1984
6.5
To Be or Not to Be
as Dr. Frederick Bronski
1983
6.7
Wogan
as Self
1982
4.5
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
6.3
History of the World: Part I
as Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
1981
6.8
The Muppet Movie
as Professor Max Krassman
1979
7.2
The Muppets Go Hollywood
as Self
1979
6.2
Mickey's 50
as Self
1978
0.0
Peeping Times
as Adolf Hitler
1978
4.0
An Audience with...
as Self
1978
5.3
High Anxiety
as Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke
1977
6.5
🎬
Please Turn the Page
as Self
1977
6.0
Silent Movie
as Mel Funn
1976
6.5
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
as Lion victim (voice)
1975
6.0
When Things Were Rotten
as Guard (uncredited)
1975
7.2
The 2000 Year Old Man
as 2000 Year Old Man (voice)
1975
6.5
Young Frankenstein
as Werewolf / Cat / Victor Frankenstein (voice) (uncredited)
1974
7.9
Free to Be… You and Me
as Baby Boy (voice)
1974
6.7
Blazing Saddles
as Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief
1974
7.2
Flick Flack
1974
0.0
The Electric Company
1971
7.1
Great Performances
as Self
1971
5.8
The Twelve Chairs
as Tikon
1970
6.3
Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man
as Himself
1970
0.0
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
The Producers
as Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited)
1968
7.1
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self (uncredited)
1968
6.6
The Hollywood Palace
as Self
1964
4.5
The Critic
as Narrator (voice)
1963
6.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Grammys
as Self
1959
8.6
The David Susskind Show
as Self
1959
5.0
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
1956
5.9
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Self
1954
7.8
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
🎬
Untitled Lani Pixels Project
as Gatekeeper (voice)
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0.0
Spaceballs 2
as President Skroob / Yogurt
N/A
0.0
🎬
Enormous
as Bernie (voice)
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Mel Brooks: The Genius Entertainer
as Himself
N/A
9.0
🎬
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
as Self
N/A
0.0
🎬
David Lynch: The Idea Dictates Everything
as Mel Brooks
N/A
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