
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.

Free to Be... a Family

Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks

The Grammys

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

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Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

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RTL Samstag Nacht

Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again

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ヤング・フランケンシュタイン

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic

Broadway: The American Musical

The Wonderful World of Disney

Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century

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The Making of 'The Producers'

The Frank Skinner Show

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Somebody Feed Phil

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マペットの夢みるハリウッド

フェリシーと夢のトウシューズ

Noel's House Party

ゴールデングローブ賞

When Things Were Rotten

The Great Buster: A Celebration

Remembering Gene Wilder

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You

If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

The Electric Company

The Producers

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

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The Last Laugh

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

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The Dick Cavett Show

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Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

The Automat

Primetime Glick

Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!

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メル・ブルックス/珍説世界史PART I

天才犬ピーボ博士のタイムトラベル

Mad About You

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Free to Be… You and Me

A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers

From Darkness to Light

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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

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The Critic

Mel Brooks Strikes Back!

An Audience with Mel Brooks

The 2000 Year Old Man

The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed

Inside Comedy

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メル・ブルックス/新サイコ

'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

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The Twelve Chairs

Champs-Elysées

Glenn Martin, DDS

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The Muppets Go Hollywood

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Real Time with Bill Maher

Mel Brooks: The Genius Entertainer

It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

Back in the Saddle

The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks

Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love

Great Performances

To Tell the Truth

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メル・ブルックス/珍説世界史PARTⅡ

It's Always About the Story: Conversations with Alan Ladd, Jr.

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Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies

The Mike Douglas Show

An Audience with...

Sex, Lögner & Videovåld

Hitler: The Comedy Years

The David Susskind Show

Legends

Il silenzio dei prosciutti

Life Stinks: Does Life Really Stink?

Wogan

The Hollywood Palace

Spaceballs: The Animated Series

Mickey's Audition

Peeping Times

Svitati

Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West

Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man

Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World

Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition

Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie'

Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar

Caesar's Writers

Sunset People

Flower of the Dawn

The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks

Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man

Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense

Mickey's 50

In the Beginning: The Caesar Years

Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s

Spaceballs: The Totally Warped Animated Adventures

Ruby's Studio: the Feelings Show

Spaceballs 2

Spaceballs: The Documentary

The Land of Sometimes

The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld

Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words

David Lynch: The Idea Dictates Everything

Flick Flack