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Mel Brooks
Noto per: RecitazioneMelvin 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
Ideatore
La pazza storia del mondo, Parte II
The Electric Company
nel ruolo di Blond-Haired Cartoon Man (voice)
Balle spaziali
Hotel Transylvania 3 - Una vacanza mostruosa
Hotel Transylvania 2
Robots
Piccole canaglie
La mosca 2
Produttore
Le avventure di Piggley Winks
nel ruolo di Wiley (voice)
Ecco il film dei Muppet
Ballerina
John Candy: I Like Me
Frankenstein Junior
Regia, Sceneggiatura
Paws of Fury - La leggenda di Hank
Robin Hood - Un uomo in calzamaglia
Mezzogiorno e mezzo di fuoco
Dracula morto e contento
nel ruolo di Prof. Abraham Van Helsing
Senti chi parla 2
The Producers - Una gaia commedia neonazista
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
Per favore, non toccate le vecchiette!
Balle Spaziali - La serie
nel ruolo di President Skroob / Yogurt (voice)
Che vita da cani!
nel ruolo di Goddard Bolt
Alta tensione
Essere o non essere
nel ruolo di Dr. Frederick Bronski
Spaceballs: The New One
nel ruolo di President Skroob / Yogurt
The Land of Sometimes
nel ruolo di The Postman (voice)
L'idolo delle donne
Scrittura
Remembering Gene Wilder
nel ruolo di Self
La pazza storia del mondo
nel ruolo di Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
Bombshell - La storia di Hedy Lamarr
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
nel ruolo di Self
I perché di Forky: Che cos'è l'amore?
I guerrieri del sole
Produttore
From Darkness to Light
nel ruolo di Self (archive footage)
The Great Buster
nel ruolo di Self
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
nel ruolo di Self
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
nel ruolo di Self
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
nel ruolo di Self - Announcer (voice)
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
nel ruolo di Self
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
nel ruolo di Self
Loose Shoes
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
nel ruolo di Self
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
nel ruolo di Self
Get Smart: A Man Called Smart
Scrittura
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man
nel ruolo di Self
The Last Laugh
Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words
nel ruolo di Self
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
nel ruolo di Self
Balle Spaziali - La serie
nel ruolo di President Skroob/Yogurt
'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
nel ruolo di Self
The Automat
nel ruolo di Self
New Faces
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