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Over his 70 year career in film, theatre, and television Brooks has won an Academy Award, four Emmys, three Tony Awards, three Grammys, and has been nominated for six Golden Globes and one BAFTA Award.
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.
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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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History of the World: Part II. For "VIII". 2015 Nominee Primetime Emmy. Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. The Comedians. For playing "Mel Brooks". 2015 Nominee Primetime Emmy. Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special. Mel Brooks Live at the Geffen.
- June 28, 1926
Three of his films ranked in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy films of all-time, all of which ranked in the top 20 of the list: Blazing Saddles at number 6, The Producers at number 11, and Young Frankenstein at number 13.
Mel Brooks is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker of the stage, television, and screen. He started his work as a comedy writer, actor, and then director of 11 feature films including The Producers (1967), Young Frankenstein (1974), and Blazing Saddles (1974).
Actor: Spaceballs. Mel Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. He served in WWII, and afterwards got a job playing the drums at nightclubs in the Catskills.
