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    m. Melvin James Brooks ( né Kaminsky; [1] born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright. With a career spanning over seven decades, Brooks is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. [2]

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    Brooks is one of the few artists who have received an Oscar, Emmy, Tony, and Grammy. He was awarded his first Grammy for Best Spoken Comedy Album in 1999 for his recording of The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 with Carl Reiner. His two other Grammys came in 2002 for Best Musical Show Album for the soundtrack of The Producers and for Best Long F...

    Brooks was married to Florence Baum from 1953 to 1962. Their marriage ended in divorce. Mel and Florence had three children, Stephanie, Nicky, and Eddie. Brooks was married to the actress Anne Bancroft from 1964 until her death from uterine cancer on June 6, 2005. They met at a rehearsal for the Perry Como Variety Show in 1961 and married three yea...

    Writer/director

    1. The Producers (1968) (Academy Award, best original screenplay) 2. The Twelve Chairs(1970) (also actor) 3. Blazing Saddles(1974) (also actor) 4. Young Frankenstein(1974) 5. Silent Movie(1976) (also actor) 6. High Anxiety(1977) (also actor/producer) 7. History of the World, Part I(1981) (also actor/producer) 8. Spaceballs(1987) (also actor/producer) 9. Life Stinks(1991) (also actor/producer) 10. Robin Hood: Men in Tights(1993) (also actor/producer) 11. Dracula: Dead and Loving It(1995) (also...

    Theatre

    1. Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1952 (1952) (sketches for a revue) 2. Shinbone Alley(1957) (co-book-writer) 3. All-American(1962) (book-writer) 4. 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, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical) 5. Young Frankenstein(2007) (composer, lyricist, co-book-writer, producer)

    Other credits

    1. Your Show of Shows(TV) (1950–1954) (writer) 2. New Faces of 1952(Broadway) (1952) (writer) and "New Faces", the 1954 movie version (writer) 3. The Critic (created and narrated, won Academy Award for Best Animated Short movie) (1963) 4. Get Smart(TV) (1965–1970) (co-creator, writer) 5. The Electric Company(TV) (1971–1977) (voice of recurring little cartoon man who asks: "Who's the dummy writing this show?!") 6. Hollywood Squares(1972) (Guest star) 7. When Things Were Rotten(1975) (co-create...

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  2. Jun 12, 2023 · The Iconoclastic Comedic Genius of Mel Brooks. Brooks in "Life Stinks." (Moviestore Collection Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo) In Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew, Jeremy Dauber, the Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture at Columbia, describes the filmmaker and comedian's provocative, inexhaustible, and enduring impact on American ...

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  4. Department. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Melvin Brooks (né Kaminsky, born June 28, 1926) is an American filmmaker, comedian, actor and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows.

  5. Jul 22, 2018 · Culture. Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man: Mel Brooks in His 90s. The comic has stormed through 75 years of show business; he remains prodigal in expression, memory, and imagination. By...

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