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Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. 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 ]
American actor, comedian, and filmmaker Mel Brooks (born 1926) received his fourth distinct award in June 2001. Between 1968 and 2002, Brooks received a total of 11 awards. [20] Brooks was the first person to win the Emmy as the first award, and the first winner to have won his Oscar for screenwriting. Academy Awards:
Brooks receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010. Mel Brooks is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker of the stage, television, and screen. He started his work as a comedy writer, actor, and then director of 11 feature films including The Producers (1967), Young Frankenstein (1974), and Blazing Saddles (1974).
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]
To Be or Not to Be is a 1983 American war comedy film directed by Alan Johnson, produced by Mel Brooks, and starring Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Tim Matheson, Charles Durning, Christopher Lloyd, and José Ferrer.
Mel Brooks July 26, 1991 Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer $4,102,526: Comedy drama: 18% [11] 1992: The Vagrant: Chris Walas May 15, 1992 $5,900: Comedy horror: N/A 1993: Robin Hood: Men in Tights: Mel Brooks July 28, 1993 20th Century Fox $35,739,755: Musical adventure comedy 43% [12] 1995: Dracula: Dead and Loving It: December 22, 1995 Columbia ...
A close succession of comedies—Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), and High Anxiety (1977)—were all directed by Mel Brooks, [12] who was able to bring out the best of Kahn's comic talents. [22] Their last collaboration was 1981's History of the World, Part I.
Brooks was born on May 22, 1972, in Manhattan, New York City.He is the son of actress Anne Bancroft and actor, director, producer, and writer Mel Brooks. [3] His father is Jewish, while his mother was an Italian-American Catholic.