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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]
Mel Brooks, who elevated black humor into the highest art form, maintained that his only weapon to fight back against the Nazis in the decades just after the War were jokes.
The Producers is a 1967 American satirical black comedy film. It was written and directed by Mel Brooks, and stars Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, and Kenneth Mars.The film is about a mild-mannered accountant and a con artist theater producer who scheme to get rich by fraudulently overselling interests in a stage musical designed to fail.
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]
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 ...
That was the prevailing spirit among the all-star assembly of contemporary comedy stars who turned out for the premiere of Hulu’s long-awaited follow-up to Brooks’ 1981 comedy classic “The ...
Ritz Brothers (Al, Jimmy, and Harry Ritz, 1901–1965, 1904–1985, 1907–1986 respectively), Jewish comedy team [403] Natalie Schafer (1900–1991), actress ( Gilligan's Island ) Lee Strasberg (born Israel Strassberg , 1901–1982), actor, director, and acting teacher in theater and film, who according to author Mel Gussow "revolutionized the ...
The 2000 Year Old Man is a comedy sketch created by Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks in the 1950s and first publicly performed in the 1960s. Brooks plays a 2000-year-old man, interviewed by Reiner in a series of comedy routines that were turned into a collection of records and also performed on television. [1] [2] [3]