Mel Brooks biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Mel Brooks

Author Name:

Mel Brooks

Born As:

Melvin Kaminsky

Other Names:

Born:

28 Jun 1926

Died:





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Film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer                          
Selected Works:

The Producers - 1968 - Academy Award, best original screenplay
The Twelve Chairs - 1970 - also actor
Blazing Saddles - 1974 - also actor
Young Frankenstein - 1974
Silent Movie - 1976 - also actor
High Anxiety - 1977 - also actor
The Nude Bomb - 1980
History of the World, Part I - 1981 - also actor/producer
Spaceballs - 1987 - also actor/producer
Life Stinks - 1991 - also actor/producer
Robin Hood: Men in Tights - 1993 - also actor/producer
Dracula: Dead and Loving It - 1995 - also actor/producer
Get Smart - film - 2008 - post-production

Theater:

Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1952 - 1952- - sketches for a revue
Shinbone Alley - 1957 - co-book-writer
All-American - 1962 - book-writer
The Producers - 2001 - composer, lyricist, co-book-writer, producer; Tony Award for Best Musical, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical,Tony Award for Best Original Score
Young Frankenstein - 2007- composer, lyricist, co-book-writer, producer

Other works:

Your Show of Shows - TV - 1950-1954 - writer
New Faces of 1952 - Broadway - 1952 - writer and "New Faces", the 1954 film version - writer
The Critic - short film, Academy Award winner for Short Subjects, Cartoons - 1963, created and narrated
Get Smart - TV - 1965-1970 - co-creator, writer
The Electric Company - TV - 1971-1977 - voice of recurring cartoon man who asks: "Who's the dummy writing this show?!"
The Elephant Man - 1980 - uncredited executive producer
To Be or Not to Be - 1983 - actor, producer
The Fly - 1986 - uncredited producer
The Fly II - 1989 - uncredited producer
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Season 2 - voice of Santa Claus
Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks - 2003-present - voice of Wiley the Sheep
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 4 - actor
Robots - 2005 - voice of Bigweld
The Producers - 2005 - writer, producer
Spaceballs: The Animated Series - 2007 - writer, producer, voice.                          
Mother Kate Brookman
Father Maximillian, four sons, Irving, Leonard, Bernard and Melvin.
First wife Florence Baum, 1951, divorced 1961 - three children, Stephanie, Nicky, and Eddie. 
Second wife Anne Bancroft, 1964 until her death in 2005, one son  Maximillian in 1972.                          
1981 - History of the World, Part I