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Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; born 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. [1]
Albert Brooks (born 1947), film actor, writer and director [570] James L. Brooks (born 1940), TV and film writer, producer and director [571] Mel Brooks (born 1926), writer, director and actor of film, TV and stage [572] Richard Brooks (1912–1992), film director and producer [573] William Castle (1914–1977), film director and producer [574]
This is a list of Jewish film directors. The countries listed are those where films were directed. A ... James L. Brooks (born 1940), US [55] Mel Brooks (born 1926 ...
This is a list of notable Jewish American playwrights. ... Mel Brooks [10] Paddy Chayefsky [11] Betty Comden & Adolph Green [2] Norman Corwin [12] Howard Dietz [13]
By the 1970s, Jews proliferated in the entertainment industry. In 1979 Time Magazine estimated that about 80 percent of all comedians in the United States were Jewish. Other Jewish entertainers, like Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Woody Allen, Gene Wilder, and Neil Simon all began to embrace their Jewish heritage on screen. [11]
Mel Brooks has left his mark in cinema with his long-lasting, six decade plus career -- and now he's literally left his mark in Hollywood, Reuters video reports. The 88-year-old funnyman and ...
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In 2006, Jewish American comedic filmmaker Mel Brooks spoke negatively of the film in Der Spiegel, saying it trivialized the suffering in concentration camps. [40] By contrast, Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész argues that those who take the film to be a comedy, rather than a tragedy, have missed the point of the film.