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Mel Brooks
Melvin James Kaminsky, known professionally as Mel Brooks, is renowned as an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. With a prolific career spanning over seven decades, Brooks is recognized for his contributions and inceptions of a broad range of farces and parodies. He is an honored recipient of the EGOT- an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award. His career was further catapulted in 2009 with a Kennedy Center Honor, a coveted Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, renowned 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. Brooks started his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows from 1950 to 1954. His legacy began through the creation of various comedy series and the grand win of the Best Original Screenplay for The Producers(1967). Brooks is also an author, where his novel 'World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War' (2006) was widely known. As part of his personal life, Brooks had two marriages, first with Florence Baum, and then with renowned actress Anne Bancroft till her death in 2005.
Biography, Career & Filmography
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Given Name: Melvin James Kaminsky
Born: New York City, U.S.
Citizenship: American
Birthday: June 28, 1926
Occupations: Actor, comedian, filmmaker, playwright
Years Active: 1949-present
Children: 4
Spouses: Florence Baum, Anne Bancroft
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Awards and Nominations Received by Mel Brooks
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Movies Featuring Mel Brooks
Toy Story 4
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
High Anxiety
Silent Movie
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Robots
Spaceballs
Life Stinks
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
History of the World: Part I
To Be or Not to Be
Remembering Gene Wilder
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
Ballerina
Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
Sex, Lies and Video Violence
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
John Candy: Comic Spirit
Spaceballs: In Conversation - Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
Broadway: The American Musical
Cutting Edge Comedians of the ’60s & ’70s
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Free to Be… a Family
The Making of ‘The Producers’
The Automat
History of the World: Part II
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
The Twelve Chairs
‘Robin Hood: Men in Tights’ – The Legend Had It Coming
Free to Be… You and Me
The Critic
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother
Screw Loose
Mickey’s 50
It’s Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
Peeping Times
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
The Muppets Go Hollywood
Mickey’s Audition
From Darkness to Light
John Candy: I Like Me
Career Timeline
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2024
Remembering Gene Wilder
Self - Director, Writer, Actor
From Darkness to Light
Self (archive footage)
2018
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Self
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Vlad
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Self
2017
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Self
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
Self
If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
Self
2012
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
Self
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
Self
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man
Self
2005
Robots
John Candy: Comic Spirit
Self
Spaceballs: In Conversation - Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
Self
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