Mel Brooks

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-06-28 (99 years old)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Mel Brooks

Biography

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. 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 2...

Acting

1987

Spaceballs

as President Skroob / Yogurt

1981

History of the World: Part I

as Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI

1994

The Silence of the Hams

as Checkout Guest (uncredited)

1994

The Little Rascals

as Mr. Welling

1976

Silent Movie

as Mel Funn

1979

The Muppet Movie

as Professor Max Krassman

1974

Blazing Saddles

as Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief

1991

Life Stinks

as Goddard Bolt

1983

To Be or Not to Be

as Dr. Frederick Bronski

1993

1970

1995

Dracula: Dead and Loving It

as Prof. Abraham Van Helsing

1977

High Anxiety

as Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke

2005

Robots

as Bigweld (voice)

1999

Screw Loose

as Jake Gordon

2007

Hitler: The Comedy Years

as Singer in 'Springtime for Hitler' (archive footage) (uncredited)

2023

2007

1963

The Critic

as Narrator (voice)

2000

Sex, Lies and Video Violence

as Stressed old man

1974

Free to Be… You and Me

as Baby Boy (voice)

1990

Look Who's Talking Too

as Mr. Toilet Man (voice)

2015

Hotel Transylvania 2

as Vlad (voice)

2014

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

as Albert Einstein (voice)

1996

1974

Young Frankenstein

as Werewolf / Cat Hit by Dart / Victor Frankenstein (voice)

1984

2016

-

Flower of the Dawn

as Bürgermeister (voice)

1998

2016

Ballerina

as Mustachioed Creep (voice)

1992

Mickey's Audition

as Movie Director

2016

Ballerina

as Luteau (voice)

-

Untitled Lani Pixels Project

as Gatekeeper (voice)

1978

Peeping Times

as Adolf Hitler

1968

The Producers

as Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited)

1975

The 2000 Year Old Man

as 2000 Year Old Man (voice)

2019

Toy Story 4

as Melephant Brooks (voice)

2005

The Producers

as Hilda the Pigeon / Tom the Cat (voice)

1978

2019

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?

as Melephant Brooks (voice)

2021

2011

2014

2025

2010

Ruby's Studio: the Feelings Show

as Sally Simon Simmons Narrator

2025

From Darkness to Light

as Self (archive footage)

-

Spaceballs 2

as President Skroob / Yogurt

Production

1987

Spaceballs

as Director

1987

Spaceballs

as Screenplay

1987

Spaceballs

as Producer

1974

1974

Young Frankenstein

as Screenplay

1968

The Producers

as Director

1976

Silent Movie

as Director

1976

Silent Movie

as Screenplay

1974

Blazing Saddles

as Director

1974

Blazing Saddles

as Screenplay

1991

Life Stinks

as Producer

1991

Life Stinks

as Screenplay

1991

Life Stinks

as Director

1983

1970

The Twelve Chairs

as Screenplay

1970

1993

1977

High Anxiety

as Writer

1977

High Anxiety

as Director

1977

High Anxiety

as Producer

2005

The Producers

as Producer

2005

The Producers

as Screenplay

1974

1974

Blazing Saddles

as Lyricist

1968

1968

The Producers

as Lyricist

2022

2022

Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank

as Original Film Writer

1985

The Doctor and the Devils

as Executive Producer

1968

The Producers

as Writer

1970

2015

Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen

as Executive Producer

1980

Fatso

as Producer

1989

The Fly II

as Producer

1978

Loose Shoes

as Producer

1986

Solarbabies

as Producer

1980

The Nude Bomb

as Characters

2014

Ride

as Thanks

1974

Young Frankenstein

as Screenstory

2015

Sam

as Executive Producer

1992

The Vagrant

as Executive Producer

1986

The Fly

as Producer

1980

The Elephant Man

as Producer

2005

1977

High Anxiety

as Songs

2008

Get Smart

as Characters

1970

1954

New Faces

as Writer

2019

The Producers

as Lyricist

2019

The Producers

as Writer

2019

1963

The Critic

as Creator

1963

The Critic

as Writer

1991

Life Stinks

as Story

2021

The Automat

as Songs

1987

84 Charing Cross Road

as Executive Producer

-

Spaceballs 2

as Producer

-

Spaceballs 2

as Original Film Writer

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