Mel Brooks

Acting

Born: 1926-06-28

From: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Popularity: 1.5

Also Known As

Melvin James Kaminsky مل بروکس

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.

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Awards & Nominations29 won · 31 nominated

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Academy Honorary Award

2024

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Peabody Awards

2023

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AFI Life Achievement Award

2013

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special

2012

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Kennedy Center Honors

2009

Nominated

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics

2008

Nominated

Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album

2008

Nominated

Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media

The Producers

2007

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Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical

2005

Nominated

Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical

2005

Nominated

Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program

Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks

2005

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song

2005

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song

The Producers

2005

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

The Producers

2005

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Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement

2003

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Grammy Award for Best Music Film

2002

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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical

2001

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Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical

The Producers

2001

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Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album

2001

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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics

2001

🏆 Won

Grammy Award for Best Music Film

2001

🏆 Won

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical

2001

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Tony Award for Best Original Score

The Producers

2001

Nominated

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics

2001

Nominated

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical

2001

Nominated

Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album

2001

Nominated

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical

2001

Nominated

Grammy Award for Best Music Film

2001

🏆 Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

Mad About You

1999

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

Mad About You

1999

🏆 Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

Mad About You

1998

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Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album

1998

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Grammy Hall of Fame

1998

Nominated

Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album

1998

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

Mad About You

1998

🏆 Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

Mad About You

1997

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

Mad About You

1997

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

High Anxiety

1977

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

High Anxiety

1977

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Saturn Award for Best Director

Young Frankenstein

1976

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Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation

Young Frankenstein

1975

🏆 Won

Nebula Award for Best Script

Young Frankenstein

1975

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Song

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1975

Nominated

Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation

Young Frankenstein

1975

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

Young Frankenstein

1975

Nominated

Nebula Award for Best Script

Young Frankenstein

1975

🏆 Won

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Producers

1969

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

The Producers

1969

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

The Producers

1969

Nominated

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Producers

1969

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay

The Producers

1968

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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series

1967

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series

1967

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series

Get Smart

1966

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series

Caesar's Hour

1958

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series

Caesar's Hour

1956

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star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

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European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal

🏆 Won

World War II Victory Medal

🏆 Won

American Campaign Medal

Mel Brooks

Also Known As

Biography

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Awards & Nominations29 won · 31 nominated

Acting136 titles

Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks

Caesar's Writers

Mickey's 50

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

Free to Be... a Family

The Grammys

Only Murders in the Building

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

Sunset People

The Simpsons

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Broadway: The American Musical

Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again

Young Frankenstein

The Making of 'The Producers'

RTL Samstag Nacht

The Wonderful World of Disney

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic

John Candy: I Like Me

Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!

Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century

Frasier

Toy Story 4

The Frank Skinner Show

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Noel's House Party

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

When Things Were Rotten

The Electric Company

The Muppet Movie

Blazing Saddles

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

Remembering Gene Wilder

Ballerina

The Great Buster: A Celebration

Primetime Glick

Golden Globe Awards

Somebody Feed Phil

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You

The Producers

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

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

The Last Laugh

If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast

An Audience with Mel Brooks

The David Susskind Show

The Oscars

Spaceballs

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

The Little Rascals

Free to Be… You and Me

Hotel Transylvania 2

Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

Champs-Elysées

The Dick Cavett Show

History of the World: Part I

To Be or Not to Be

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers

From Darkness to Light

Mad About You

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

The Critic

Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank

The Automat

Silent Movie

Robots

Mel Brooks Strikes Back!

The 2000 Year Old Man

The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed