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Awards. Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical. Young Frankenstein (promoted as The New Mel Brooks Musical: Young Frankenstein) is a musical with a book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, and music and lyrics by Brooks. It is based on the 1974 comedy film of the same name written by Gene Wilder and Brooks who also directed and has described ...
Melvin James Brooks ( né Kaminsky; [1] born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright. With a career spanning over seven decades, Brooks is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. [2] A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 19 entertainers to win ...
Box office. $86.2 million [3] Young Frankenstein is a 1974 American comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks. The screenplay was co-written by Brooks and Gene Wilder. Wilder also starred in the lead role as the title character, a descendant of the infamous Dr. Victor Frankenstein. Peter Boyle portrayed the monster. [4]
Jeff Maxwell. Jeff Maxwell (born Jeffrey Maxwell Knott) is an American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for playing Pvt. Igor Straminsky, a recurring character in the television series M*A*S*H. [1] He appeared in 83 episodes of the classic CBS comedy from 1973 to 1983, including the series finale Goodbye, Farewell and Amen ...
Teri Garr is an American actress who has appeared in over 70 films since beginning her career in the mid-1960s. She began her film career as a dancer in various musicals before having small speaking roles in Head (1968) and Changes (1969). In 1974, she was cast as Inga in Mel Brooks 's comedy horror film Young Frankenstein (1974), and also had ...
Elizabeth Stamatina Fey was born on May 18, 1970, [1] [2] in Upper Darby Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.Her father, Donald Henry Fey, was a veteran of the Korean War, university administrator for the University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson University, and a grant proposal writer who raised $500 million for schools, hospitals, and public service agencies through proposals and ...
The comedy film Young Frankenstein features the character Igor (portrayed by Marty Feldman ), a crazy eyed hunchback who becomes the assistant of Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (portrayed by Gene Wilder ), both their grandfathers having coincidentally worked together. The duo begin working on creating the monster from the corpse of a hanged criminal.
Frankenstein Jr. appeared on one of the Halloween parade floats in the 2020 film Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!. Also in 2020, Frankenstein Jr. has a cameo in Scoob!, appearing in the end credits. Buzz Conroy and Frankenstein Jr. appear in the 2021 film Space Jam: A New Legacy. They are among the Warner Bros. 3000 Server-Verse inhabitants (which ...