Mel Brooks

Acting · Born 1926-06-28 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and songwriter. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 21 entertainers to win the EGOT (which includes an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony). 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. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows(1950–1954). There, he worked with Neil Simon, Woody…

Filmography

• Spaceballs as President Skroob / Yogurt
• History of the World: Part I as Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
• It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein as Self
• The Silence of the Hams as Checkout Guest (uncredited)
• The Little Rascals as Mr. Welling
• Silent Movie as Mel Funn
• The Muppet Movie as Professor Max Krassman
• Blazing Saddles as Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief
• Life Stinks as Goddard Bolt
• To Be or Not to Be as Dr. Frederick Bronski