Mel Brooks
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Melvin Kaminsky (born June 28, 1926), known professionally as Mel Brooks, is an American director, writer, actor, comedian, producer and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comedic parodies.
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 (1967), The Twelve Chairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), Spaceballs (1987), and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993). A musical adaptation of his first film, The Producers, ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007, and was remade into a musical film in 2005 by Brooks himself.
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Work
Writer/director
- The Producers (1968) (Academy Award, best original screenplay)
- The Twelve Chairs (1970) (also actor)
- Blazing Saddles (1974) (also actor)
- Young Frankenstein (1974)
- Silent Movie (1976) (also actor)
- High Anxiety (1977) (also actor)
- History of the World, Part I (1981) (also actor/producer)
- Spaceballs (1987) (also actor/producer)
- Life Stinks (1991) (also actor/producer)
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) (also actor/producer)
- Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) (also actor/producer)
Theater
- Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1952 (1952) (sketches for a revue)
- Shinbone Alley (1957) (co-book-writer)
- All-American (1962) (book-writer)
- The Producers (2001) (composer, lyricist, co-book-writer, producer; Tony Award for Best Musical, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical,Tony Award for Best Original Score)
- Young Frankenstein (2007) (composer, lyricist, co-book-writer, producer)
Other works
- Your Show of Shows (TV) (1950-1954) (writer)
- The Critic (short film, Academy Award winner for Short Subjects (Cartoons)) (1963) (created and narrated)
- Get Smart (TV) (1965-1970) (co-creator, writer)
- When Things Were Rotten (1975) (co-created, writer)
- The Electric Company (TV) (1971-1977) (voice of recurring little cartoon man who asks: "Who's the dummy writing this show?!")
- The Elephant Man (1980) (uncredited executive producer)
- To Be or Not to Be (1983) (actor, producer)
- The Fly (1986) (uncredited producer)
- The Fly II (1989) (uncredited producer)
- The Tracy Ulmann Show (1990) (actor-Buzz Schlanger)
- Look Who's Talking Too (voice of Mr. Toilet Man)
- Frasier (1993) (voice of Tom)
- The Little Rascals (1994) (actor-Mr. Welling)
- Silence of the Hams (1994) (actor-Checkout Guest)
- The Prince of Egypt (1998) (uncredited, additional voices)
- Svitati (AKA Screw Loose) (1999) (actor-Jake Gordon)
- Mad About You (TV) (1996-1999) (actor-Uncle Phil)
- Sex, lögner & videovåld (2000) (video) (actor-Stressed Old Man)
- It's a Very Muppet Christmas Movie (TV) (2002) (voice of Joe Snow)
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Season 2 (voice of Santa Claus)
- Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (2003-present) (voice of Wiley the Sheep)
- Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 4 (actor)
- Robots (2005) (voice of Bigweld)
- The Producers (2005) (writer, producer)
- Jakers! The Adventures of Piggly Winks (2003) (voice of Wiley the Sheep)
- Spaceballs: The Animated Series (2007) (writer, producer, voice)
