Mel Brooks

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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. He became well known as part of the comedy duo with Carl Reiner in the comedy skit The 2000 Year Old Man. He also created, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series Get Smart, which ran from 1965 to 1970.

In middle age, Brooks became one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s, with many of his films being among the top 10 moneymakers of the year they were released. His best-known films include The Producers, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World, Part I, Spaceballs and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. A musical adaptation of his first film, The Producers, ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007.

In 2001, having previously won an Emmy, a Grammy and an Oscar, he joined a small list of EGOT winners with his Tony award for The Producers. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010, the 41st AFI Life Achievement Award in June 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in March 2015, a National Medal of Arts in September 2016, and a BAFTA Fellowship in February 2017. Three of his films ranked in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy films of the past 100 years (1900–2000), all of which ranked in the top 15 of the list: Blazing Saddles at number 6, The Producers at number 11, and Young Frankenstein at number 13.

Brooks was married to Oscar-winning actress Anne Bancroft from 1964 until her death in 2005.

The Simpsons

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Toy Story 4

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Hotel Transylvania 2

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Robots

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Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

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Young Frankenstein

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Spaceballs

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Mr. Peabody & Sherman

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Robin Hood: Men in Tights

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Blazing Saddles

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Ballerina

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Only Murders in the Building

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Look Who's Talking Too

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The Little Rascals

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Dracula: Dead and Loving It

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History of the World: Part I

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The Producers

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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

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Frasier

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Curb Your Enthusiasm

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The Muppet Movie

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High Anxiety

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Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank

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Silent Movie

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Mad About You

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To Be or Not to Be

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Real Time with Bill Maher

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Life Stinks

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The Silence of the Hams

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The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

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Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

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The Twelve Chairs

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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

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It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

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Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

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The Oscars

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History of the World: Part II

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Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

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The Great Buster: A Celebration

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Screw Loose

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The Critic

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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

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The Wonderful World of Disney

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Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

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Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks

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Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love

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The Last Laugh

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The Dick Cavett Show

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Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

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The Muppets Go Hollywood

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The Electric Company

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The Automat

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Great Performances

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Golden Globe Awards

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Remembering Gene Wilder

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Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You

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Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

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Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies

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The 2000 Year Old Man

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Spaceballs: The Animated Series

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Glenn Martin, DDS

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A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers

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Primetime Glick

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Tony Awards

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Sex, Lies and Video Violence

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Free to Be… You and Me

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If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast

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To Tell the Truth

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The Mike Douglas Show

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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

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Arena

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Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

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'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming

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Noel's House Party

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Wogan

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Champs-Elysées

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Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen

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David Lynch, A Hollywood Enigma

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Broadway: The American Musical

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It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

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Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic

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Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again

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Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks

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The Hollywood Palace

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RTL Samstag Nacht

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Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century

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The Making of 'The Producers'

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Inside Comedy

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An Audience with...

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Free to Be... a Family

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Mel Brooks Strikes Back!

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Mickey's Audition

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An Audience with Mel Brooks

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It's Always About the Story: Conversations with Alan Ladd, Jr.

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Life Stinks: Does Life Really Stink?

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Spaceballs: In Conversation - Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan

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Back in the Saddle

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John Candy: Comic Spirit

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The Frank Skinner Show

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Hitler: The Comedy Years

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Mel Brooks: The Genius Entertainer

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Peeping Times

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The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed

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The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet

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Mel Brooks: Seriously... Well, Almost

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The David Susskind Show

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Legends

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Please Turn the Page

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The Paul Reiser Show

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Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man

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Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World

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Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s

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Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition

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Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie'

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Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar

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Caesar's Writers

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Sunset People

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Fairy Tale Forest: Flower of the Dawn

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The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks

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Untitled Lani Pixels Project

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The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy

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The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room

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Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man

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Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense

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Mickey's 50

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In the Beginning: The Caesar Years

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Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s

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Spaceballs: The Totally Warped Animated Adventures

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Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West

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Saturday Night Clive

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Flick Flack

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