MEL BROOKS

Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks
Gender: Male
Known for: Acting
Birthday: June 28, 1926
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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.

Notable work

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Filmography

Starring

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

Production

2023·
History of the World: Part II
Creator, Writer, Executive Producer
TBA·
Very Young Frankenstein
Executive Producer
TBA·
Spaceballs 2
Original Film Writer, Producer
2022·
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Original Film Writer, Executive Producer
2021·
The Automat
Songs
2019·
The Producers
Music, Writer, Lyricist
2015·
Sam
Executive Producer
2015·
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
Executive Producer, Writer
2014·
Ride
Thanks
2008·
Spaceballs: The Animated Series
Creator, Writer, Main Title Theme Composer, Executive Producer
2008·
Get Smart
Characters
2005·
The Producers
Songs, Producer, Screenplay
1995·
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Screenplay, Director, Producer
1993·
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Producer, Director, Screenplay
1992·
The Vagrant
Executive Producer
1991·
Life Stinks
Story, Producer, Screenplay, Director
1989·
The Nutt House
Creator
1989·
The Fly II
Producer
1987·
84 Charing Cross Road
Executive Producer
1987·
Spaceballs
Screenplay, Director, Producer
1986·
The Fly
Producer
1986·
Solarbabies
Producer
1985·
The Doctor and the Devils
Executive Producer
1984·
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Writer
1983·
To Be or Not to Be
Producer
1981·
History of the World: Part I
Producer, Screenplay, Director
1980·
The Elephant Man
Producer
1980·
The Nude Bomb
Characters
1980·
Fatso
Producer
1978·
Loose Shoes
Producer
1977·
High Anxiety
Songs, Director, Producer, Writer
1976·
Silent Movie
Director, Screenplay
1975·
When Things Were Rotten
Creator, Writer, Producer
1975·
The 2000 Year Old Man
Writer
1974·
Young Frankenstein
Screenstory, Director, Screenplay
1974·
Blazing Saddles
Songs, Lyricist, Screenplay, Director
1970·
Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man
Writer
1970·
Shinbone Alley
Writer, Author
1970·
The Twelve Chairs
Screenplay, Director
1968·
The Producers
Writer, Lyricist, Songs, Director
1967·
Get Smart: A Man Called Smart
Writer
1965·
Get Smart
Creator, Writer
1963·
Inside Danny Baker
Writer
1963·
The Critic
Creator, Writer
1961·
The Ladies Man
Writer
1954·
New Faces
Writer