Acting
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 Old Man. He released several comedy albums, starting with 2000 Year Old Man in 1960. Brooks received five nominations for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, finally winning in 1999. With Buck Henry, he created the hit satirical spy comedy series Get Smart (1965–1970) on NBC television. Brooks won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Producers (1967). He then rose to prominence by directing a string of successful comedy films such as The Twelve Chairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), and High Anxiety (1977). Later, Brooks made History of the World, Part I (1981), Spaceballs (1987), Life Stinks (1991), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995). A musical adaptation of his first film, The Producers, ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007 and earned Brooks three Tony Awards. The project was remade into a musical film in 2005. He wrote and produced the Hulu series History of the World, Part II (2023). Brooks was married to actress Anne Bancroft from 1964 until she died in 2005. Their son, Max Brooks, is an actor and author known for his novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006). In 2021, Mel Brooks published his memoir titled All About Me!. Three of his films are included on the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy films of the past 100 years (1900–2000), all of which were ranked in the top 15: Blazing Saddles at number 6, The Producers at number 11, and Young Frankenstein at number 13.
Filmography
Spaceballs: The New One
Film · 2027
The Land of Sometimes
Film · 2026
Addicted to It
Film · 2026
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
Series · 2026
Flower of the Dawn
Film · 2025
From Darkness to Light
Film · 2025
John Candy: I Like Me
Film · 2025
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
Film · 2025
Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words
Film · 2025
Remembering Gene Wilder
Film · 2024
Mel Brooks: Seriously... Well, Almost
Film · 2024
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
Film · 2023
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Film · 2023
History of the World: Part II
Series · 2023
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Film · 2022
The Automat
Film · 2021
Only Murders in the Building
Series · 2021
Toy Story 4
Film · 2019
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
Film · 2019
Forky Asks a Question
Series · 2019
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Film · 2018
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Film · 2018
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Film · 2018
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Film · 2018
Somebody Feed Phil
Series · 2018
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
Film · 2017
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
Film · 2017
Mel Brooks: The Genius Entertainer
Film · 2017
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
Film · 2017
The Last Laugh
Film · 2016
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Film · 2016
Ballerina
Film · 2016
It's Always About the Story: Conversations with Alan Ladd, Jr.
Film · 2016
To Tell the Truth
Series · 2016
Hotel Transylvania 2
Film · 2015
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
Film · 2015
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Film · 2014
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
Film · 2014
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Film · 2013
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Film · 2013
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man
Film · 2012
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
Film · 2012
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
Film · 2012
Inside Comedy
Series · 2012
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Series · 2012
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
Film · 2011
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
Film · 2011
The Paul Reiser Show
Series · 2011
Ruby's Studio: the Feelings Show
Film · 2010
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
Film · 2009
Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition
Film · 2009
Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie'
Film · 2009
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
Film · 2009
Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense
Film · 2009
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
Film · 2009
Glenn Martin, DDS
Series · 2009
Spaceballs: The Totally Warped Animated Adventures
Film · 2008
Spaceballs: The Animated Series
Series · 2008
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Film · 2007
Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
Film · 2007
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
Film · 2006
Legends
Series · 2006
Robots
Film · 2005
The Producers
Film · 2005
Spaceballs: In Conversation - Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
Film · 2005
John Candy: Comic Spirit
Film · 2005
Spaceballs: The Documentary
Film · 2005
Broadway: The American Musical
Series · 2004
Parkinson
Series · 2004
Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
Film · 2003
Life Stinks: Does Life Really Stink?
Film · 2003
Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
Series · 2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
Series · 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Series · 2003
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
Film · 2002
The Making of 'The Producers'
Film · 2002
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Series · 2002
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
Film · 2001
Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
Film · 2001
Back in the Saddle
Film · 2001
Primetime Glick
Series · 2001
Sex, Lies and Video Violence
Film · 2000
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
Film · 2000
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
Film · 2000
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Series · 2000
Screw Loose
Film · 1999
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
Film · 1998
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
Film · 1997
Caesar's Writers
Film · 1996
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Film · 1995
The Frank Skinner Show
Series · 1995
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Film · 1994
The Silence of the Hams
Film · 1994
The Little Rascals
Film · 1994
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Film · 1993
'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming
Film · 1993
Frasier
Series · 1993
RTL Samstag Nacht
Series · 1993
Live & Kicking
Series · 1993
Mickey's Audition
Film · 1992
Mad About You
Series · 1992
Life Stinks
Film · 1991
Noel's House Party
Series · 1991
Look Who's Talking Too
Film · 1990
The Simpsons
Series · 1989
Saturday Night Clive
Series · 1989
Free to Be... a Family
Film · 1988
Spaceballs
Film · 1987
Sunset People
Film · 1984
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Film · 1984
To Be or Not to Be
Film · 1983
Wogan
Series · 1982
Champs-Elysées
Series · 1982
History of the World: Part I
Film · 1981
The Muppet Movie
Film · 1979
The Muppets Go Hollywood
Film · 1979
Peeping Times
Film · 1978
Mickey's 50
Film · 1978
An Audience with...
Series · 1978
Ciné regards
Series · 1978
High Anxiety
Film · 1977
Please Turn the Page
Series · 1977
Silent Movie
Film · 1976
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Film · 1975
The 2000 Year Old Man
Film · 1975
When Things Were Rotten
Series · 1975
Blazing Saddles
Film · 1974
Free to Be… You and Me
Film · 1974
Young Frankenstein
Film · 1974
Flick Flack
Series · 1974
The Electric Company
Series · 1971
Great Performances
Series · 1971
Film '72
Series · 1971
The Twelve Chairs
Film · 1970
Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man
Film · 1970
The Producers
Film · 1968
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Series · 1968
The Dick Cavett Show
Series · 1968
The Hollywood Palace
Series · 1964
The Critic
Film · 1963
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Series · 1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Series · 1961
The New Steve Allen Show
Series · 1961
The David Susskind Show
Series · 1959
The Grammys
Series · 1959
Tony Awards
Series · 1956
The Wonderful World of Disney
Series · 1954
The Oscars
Series · 1953
Golden Globe Awards
Series · 1944
Untitled Lani Pixels Project
Film
Enormous
Film
Untitled Nathan Lane Documentary
Film
Funny Men in Tights: Three Generations of Comedy
Film
Grown Ups 3
Film