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Mel Brooks
Known for: ActingMelvin 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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Get Smart
Creator 
History of the World: Part II
as Narrator (voice) 
The Electric Company
as Blond-Haired Cartoon Man (voice) 
Spaceballs
as President Skroob / Yogurt 
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
as Vlad (voice) 
Hotel Transylvania 2
as Vlad (voice) 
রোবটস
as Bigweld (voice) 
The Little Rascals
as Mr. Welling 
The Fly II
Producer 
Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
as Wiley (voice) 
The Muppet Movie
as Professor Max Krassman 
Ballerina
as Luteau (US version) 
John Candy: I Like Me
as Self - Director, Spaceballs 
Young Frankenstein
Director, Screenplay 
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
as Shogun (voice) 
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
as Rabbi Tuckman 
Blazing Saddles
as William Le Petomane / Indian Chief 
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
as Prof. Abraham Van Helsing 
Look Who's Talking Too
as Mr. Toilet Man (voice) 
The Producers
Screenplay, Producer 
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
as Self 
The Producers
Director, Writer 
Spaceballs: The Animated Series
as President Skroob / Yogurt (voice) 
Life Stinks
as Goddard Bolt 
High Anxiety
as Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke 
টু বি অর নট টু বি
as Dr. Frederick Bronski 
Spaceballs: The New One
as President Skroob / Yogurt 
The Land of Sometimes
as The Postman (voice) 
The Ladies Man
Writer 
Remembering Gene Wilder
as Self 
History of the World: Part I
as Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI 
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
as Self 
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
as Self 
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
as Melephant Brooks (voice) 
Solarbabies
Producer 
From Darkness to Light
as Self (archive footage) 
The Great Buster: A Celebration
as Self 
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
as Self - Announcer (voice) 
Loose Shoes
Producer 
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
as Self 
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
as Self 
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man
as Self 
The Last Laugh
as Self 
Spaceballs: The Totally Warped Animated Adventures
as President Skroob/Yogurt 
The Automat
as Self 
New Faces
Writer