Mel Brooks
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 28, 1926 (age 100)
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Credits
- 154
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
The Simpsons
1989TV
Mel Brooks (voice)
Toy Story 4
2019Movie
Melephant Brooks (voice)
Hotel Transylvania 2
2015Movie
Vlad (voice)
Robots
2005Movie
Bigweld (voice)
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
2018Movie
Vlad (voice)
Spaceballs
1987Movie
President Skroob / Yogurt
Filmography
Spaceballs: The New One
2027Movie
President Skroob / Yogurt
Addicted to It
2026Movie
Phoney Bunny
The Land of Sometimes
2026Movie
The Postman (voice)
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
2026TV
Self
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
2025Movie
Flower of the Dawn
2025Movie
Bürgermeister (voice)
John Candy: I Like Me
2025Movie
Self - Director, Spaceballs
Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words
2025Movie
Self
From Darkness to Light
2025Movie
Self (archive footage)
Mel Brooks: Seriously... Well, Almost
2024Movie
Self
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024Movie
Self
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023Movie
Self
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
2023Movie
Self - Announcer (voice)
History of the World: Part II
2023TV
Narrator (voice)
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
2022Movie
Shogun (voice)
The Automat
2021Movie
Self
Only Murders in the Building
2021TV
Mel Brooks
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
2019Movie
Melephant Brooks (voice)
Forky Asks a Question
2019TV
Melephant Brooks (voice)
Toy Story 4
2019Movie
Melephant Brooks (voice)
The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018Movie
Self
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
2018Movie
Vlad (voice)
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018Movie
Self
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018Movie
Self
Somebody Feed Phil
2018TV
Self
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
2017Movie
Self
Mel Brooks: The Genius Entertainer
2017Movie
Himself
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
2017Movie
Self
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
2017Movie
Self
Ballerina
2016Movie
Luteau (US version)
To Tell the Truth
2016TV
Self - Panelist
It's Always About the Story: Conversations with Alan Ladd, Jr.
2016Movie
Himself
The Last Laugh
2016Movie
Self
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
2016Movie
Self
Hotel Transylvania 2
2015Movie
Vlad (voice)
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
2015Movie
Self
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
2014Movie
Self (archive footage)
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
2014Movie
Albert Einstein (voice)
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
2013Movie
Self
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013Movie
Self
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
2012Movie
Self
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
2012Movie
Self
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
2012TV
Self
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man
2012Movie
Self
Inside Comedy
2012TV
Self
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
2011Movie
Self
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
2011Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Paul Reiser Show
2011TV
The Angry Cat (voice)
Ruby's Studio: the Feelings Show
2010Movie
Sally Simon Simmons Narrator
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
2009Movie
Self
Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition
2009Movie
Self
Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie'
2009Movie
Self
Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense
2009Movie
Self
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
2009Movie
Self
Glenn Martin, DDS
2009TV
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
2009Movie
Self (archive)
Spaceballs: The Animated Series
2008TV
President Skroob / Yogurt (voice)
Spaceballs: The Totally Warped Animated Adventures
2008Movie
President Skroob/Yogurt
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007Movie
Singer in 'Springtime for Hitler' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
2007Movie
Self (archive footage)
Legends
2006TV
Mel Funn (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
2006Movie
Self
The Producers
2005Movie
Hilda the Pigeon / Tom the Cat (voice)
Spaceballs: The Documentary
2005Movie
Self
Spaceballs: In Conversation - Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
2005Movie
Self
John Candy: Comic Spirit
2005Movie
Self
Robots
2005Movie
Bigweld (voice)
Broadway: The American Musical
2004TV
Self
Parkinson
2004TV
Self - Guest
Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
2003TV
Wiley (voice)
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003TV
Self
Life Stinks: Does Life Really Stink?
2003Movie
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003TV
Self - Guest
Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
2003Movie
Himself
The Making of 'The Producers'
2002Movie
Self
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
2002Movie
Joe Snow (voice)
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
2002TV
Santa Claus (voice)
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
2001Movie
Self
Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
2001Movie
Self / Host
Primetime Glick
2001TV
Back in the Saddle
2001Movie
Self
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000TV
Mel Brooks
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
2000Movie
Himself
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
2000Movie
Himself
Sex, Lies and Video Violence
2000Movie
Stressed old man
Screw Loose
1999Movie
Jake Gordon
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
1998Movie
Self (archive footage)
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
1997Movie
Self
Caesar's Writers
1996Movie
Self
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
1995Movie
Prof. Abraham Van Helsing
The Frank Skinner Show
1995TV
Self
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994Movie
Self
The Little Rascals
1994Movie
Mr. Welling
The Silence of the Hams
1994Movie
Checkout Guest (uncredited)
RTL Samstag Nacht
1993TV
Live & Kicking
1993TV
Self
Frasier
1993TV
Tom (voice)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
1993Movie
Rabbi Tuckman
'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming
1993Movie
Self
Mickey's Audition
1992Movie
Movie Director
Mad About You
1992TV
Uncle Phil
Noel's House Party
1991TV
Life Stinks
1991Movie
Goddard Bolt
Look Who's Talking Too
1990Movie
Mr. Toilet Man (voice)
The Simpsons
1989TV
Mel Brooks (voice)
Saturday Night Clive
1989TV
Free to Be... a Family
1988Movie
Self
Spaceballs
1987Movie
President Skroob / Yogurt
Sunset People
1984Movie
Self
An Audience with Mel Brooks
1984Movie
Self
To Be or Not to Be
1983Movie
Dr. Frederick Bronski
Wogan
1982TV
Self
Champs-Elysées
1982TV
Self
History of the World: Part I
1981Movie
Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
The Muppet Movie
1979Movie
Professor Max Krassman
The Muppets Go Hollywood
1979Movie
Self (uncredited)
Mickey's 50
1978Movie
Self
Peeping Times
1978Movie
Adolf Hitler
An Audience with...
1978TV
Self
Ciné regards
1978TV
Self
High Anxiety
1977Movie
Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke
Please Turn the Page
1977TV
Self
Silent Movie
1976Movie
Mel Funn
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
1975Movie
Lion victim (voice)
When Things Were Rotten
1975TV
Guard (uncredited)
The 2000 Year Old Man
1975Movie
2000 Year Old Man (voice)
Young Frankenstein
1974Movie
Werewolf / Cat / Victor Frankenstein (voice) (uncredited)
Free to Be… You and Me
1974Movie
Baby Boy (voice)
Blazing Saddles
1974Movie
William Le Petomane / Indian Chief
Flick Flack
1974TV
Film '72
1971TV
Self
The Electric Company
1971TV
Blond-Haired Cartoon Man (voice)
Great Performances
1971TV
Self
The Twelve Chairs
1970Movie
Tikon
Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man
1970Movie
Himself
The Dick Cavett Show
1968TV
Self - Guest
The Producers
1968Movie
Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited)
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968TV
Self (uncredited)
The Hollywood Palace
1964TV
Self
The Critic
1963Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962TV
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
1961TV
Self
The New Steve Allen Show
1961TV
Self - 2000 Year Old Man
The Grammys
1959TV
Self
The David Susskind Show
1959TV
Self
Tony Awards
1956TV
Self - Winner
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954TV
Self
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944TV
Self - Nominee
Grown Ups 3
Movie
Untitled Lani Pixels Project
Movie
Gatekeeper (voice)
Untitled Nathan Lane Documentary
Movie
Self
Enormous
Movie
Bernie (voice)
Funny Men in Tights: Three Generations of Comedy
Movie
Self