Mel Brooks

Known For: Acting
Born: June 28, 1926
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Mel Brooks

Melvin 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 Ol…

Filmography

Spaceballs: The New One

2027 · President Skroob / Yogurt, Producer, Original Film Writer

The Land of Sometimes

2026 · The Postman (voice)

Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!

2026 · Self

The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld

2025

Flower of the Dawn

2025 · Bürgermeister (voice)

John Candy: I Like Me

2025 · Self - Director, Spaceballs

Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words

2025 · Self

From Darkness to Light

2025 · Self (archive footage)

Mel Brooks: Seriously... Well, Almost

Mel Brooks: Seriously... Well, Almost

2024 · Self

Remembering Gene Wilder

2024 · Self

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic

2023 · Self

Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love

2023 · Self - Announcer (voice)

History of the World: Part II

2023 · Narrator (voice), Executive Producer, Writer, Creator

Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank

2022 · Shogun (voice), Executive Producer, Original Film Writer

The Automat

2021 · Self, Songs

Only Murders in the Building

2021 · Mel Brooks

David Lynch: The Idea Dictates Everything

2021 · Mel Brooks

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?

2019 · Melephant Brooks (voice)

Forky Asks a Question

2019 · Melephant Brooks (voice)

The Producers

2019 · Writer, Lyricist, Music

Toy Story 4

2019 · Melephant Brooks (voice)

The Great Buster: A Celebration

2018 · Self

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

2018 · Vlad (voice)

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

2018 · Self

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

2018 · Self

Somebody Feed Phil

2018 · Self

Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies

2017 · Self

Mel Brooks: The Genius Entertainer

2017 · Himself

If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast

2017 · Self

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

2017 · Self

Ballerina

2016 · Luteau (US version)

To Tell the Truth

2016 · Self - Panelist

It's Always About the Story: Conversations with Alan Ladd, Jr.

2016 · Himself

The Last Laugh

2016 · Self

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You

2016 · Self

Hotel Transylvania 2

2015 · Vlad (voice)

Sam

2015 · Executive Producer

Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen

2015 · Self, Writer, Executive Producer

Ride

2014 · Thanks

Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West

2014 · Self (archive footage)

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

2014 · Albert Einstein (voice)

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

2013 · Self

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

2013 · Self

Mel Brooks Strikes Back!

2012 · Self

In the Beginning: The Caesar Years

2012 · Self

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

2012 · Self

Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man

2012 · Self

Inside Comedy

2012 · Self

Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again

2011 · Self

The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet

2011 · Self (archive footage)

The Paul Reiser Show

The Paul Reiser Show

2011 · The Angry Cat (voice)

Ruby's Studio: the Feelings Show

2010 · Sally Simon Simmons Narrator

Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World

2009 · Self

Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition

2009 · Self

Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie'

2009 · Self

Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense

2009 · Self

A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers

2009 · Self

Glenn Martin, DDS

2009

Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s

2009 · Self (archive)

Spaceballs: The Animated Series

2008 · President Skroob / Yogurt (voice), Executive Producer, Main Title Theme Composer, Writer, Creator

Spaceballs: The Totally Warped Animated Adventures

2008 · President Skroob/Yogurt

Get Smart

2008 · Characters

Hitler: The Comedy Years

2007 · Singer in 'Springtime for Hitler' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s

Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s

2007 · Self (archive footage)

Legends

2006 · Mel Funn (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks

2006 · Self

The Producers

2005 · Hilda the Pigeon / Tom the Cat (voice), Producer, Screenplay, Songs

Spaceballs: The Documentary

2005 · Self

Spaceballs: In Conversation - Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan

Spaceballs: In Conversation - Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan

2005 · Self

John Candy: Comic Spirit

John Candy: Comic Spirit

2005 · Self

Robots

2005 · Bigweld (voice)

Broadway: The American Musical

2004 · Self

Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks

2003 · Wiley (voice)

Real Time with Bill Maher

2003 · Self

Life Stinks: Does Life Really Stink?

2003 · Self

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

2003 · Self - Guest

Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar

2003 · Himself

The Making of 'The Producers'

2002 · Self

It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

2002 · Joe Snow (voice)

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

2002 · Santa Claus (voice)

The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed

2001 · Self

Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks

2001 · Self / Host

Primetime Glick

2001

Back in the Saddle

2001 · Self

Curb Your Enthusiasm

2000 · Mel Brooks

The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room

The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room

2000 · Himself

The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy

The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy

2000 · Himself

Sex, Lies and Video Violence

2000 · Stressed old man

Screw Loose

1999 · Jake Gordon

Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century

1998 · Self (archive footage)

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

1997 · Self

Caesar's Writers

1996 · Self

Dracula: Dead and Loving It

1995 · Prof. Abraham Van Helsing, Director, Producer, Screenplay

The Frank Skinner Show

1995 · Self

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

1994 · Self

The Little Rascals

1994 · Mr. Welling

The Silence of the Hams

1994 · Checkout Guest (uncredited)

RTL Samstag Nacht

1993

Live & Kicking

1993 · Self

Frasier

1993 · Tom (voice)

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

1993 · Rabbi Tuckman, Director, Screenplay, Producer

'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming

1993 · Self

Mickey's Audition

1992 · Movie Director

Mad About You

1992 · Uncle Phil

The Vagrant

1992 · Executive Producer

Noel's House Party

1991

Life Stinks

1991 · Goddard Bolt, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Story

Look Who's Talking Too

1990 · Mr. Toilet Man (voice)

The Simpsons

1989 · Mel Brooks (voice)

The Nutt House

1989 · Creator

The Fly II

1989 · Producer

Saturday Night Clive

Saturday Night Clive

1989

Free to Be... a Family

1988 · Self

Spaceballs

1987 · President Skroob / Yogurt, Director, Screenplay, Producer

84 Charing Cross Road

1987 · Executive Producer

Solarbabies

1986 · Producer

The Fly

1986 · Producer

The Doctor and the Devils

1985 · Executive Producer

Sunset People

1984 · Self

An Audience with Mel Brooks

1984 · Self, Writer

To Be or Not to Be

1983 · Dr. Frederick Bronski, Producer

Wogan

1982 · Self

Champs-Elysées

1982 · Self

History of the World: Part I

1981 · Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI, Director, Screenplay, Producer

The Elephant Man

1980 · Producer

The Nude Bomb

1980 · Characters

Fatso

1980 · Producer

The Muppet Movie

1979 · Professor Max Krassman

The Muppets Go Hollywood

1979 · Self

Mickey's 50

1978 · Self

Loose Shoes

1978 · Producer

Peeping Times

1978 · Adolf Hitler

An Audience with...

1978 · Self

High Anxiety

1977 · Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke, Writer, Director, Producer, Songs

Please Turn the Page

Please Turn the Page

1977 · Self

Silent Movie

1976 · Mel Funn, Director, Screenplay

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

1975 · Lion victim (voice)

When Things Were Rotten

1975 · Guard (uncredited), Producer, Writer, Creator

The 2000 Year Old Man

1975 · 2000 Year Old Man (voice), Writer

Young Frankenstein

1974 · Werewolf / Cat / Victor Frankenstein (voice) (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Screenstory

Free to Be… You and Me

1974 · Baby Boy (voice)

Blazing Saddles

1974 · Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief, Director, Screenplay, Songs, Lyricist

Flick Flack

1974

Film '72

1971 · Self

The Electric Company

1971 · Blond-Haired Cartoon Man (voice)

Great Performances

1971 · Self

The Twelve Chairs

1970 · Tikon, Screenplay, Director

Shinbone Alley

1970 · Author, Writer

Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man

1970 · Himself, Writer

The Dick Cavett Show

1968 · Self - Guest

The Producers

1968 · Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited), Director, Songs, Lyricist, Writer

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

1968 · Self (uncredited)

Get Smart: A Man Called Smart

1967 · Writer

Get Smart

1965 · Writer, Creator

The Hollywood Palace

1964 · Self

The Critic

1963 · Narrator (voice), Writer, Creator

Inside Danny Baker

Inside Danny Baker

1963 · Writer

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962 · Self, Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Mike Douglas Show

1961 · Self

The Ladies Man

1961 · Writer

The Grammys

1959 · Self

The David Susskind Show

1959 · Self

Tony Awards

1956 · Self - Winner

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954 · Self

New Faces

1954 · Writer

The Oscars

1953 · Self

Golden Globe Awards

1944 · Self - Nominee

Untitled Lani Pixels Project

Untitled Lani Pixels Project

— · Gatekeeper (voice)

Enormous

— · Bernie (voice)

Untitled Nathan Lane Documentary

Untitled Nathan Lane Documentary

— · Self

Very Young Frankenstein

Very Young Frankenstein

— · Original Film Writer, Executive Producer

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