Personal Info
Known Credits
92
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1926-06-28 (99 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known For
Melvin James Kaminsky
Mel Brooks
Biography
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. 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 ra ...
Known For
Acting
2024 --
Mel Brooks: Seriously... Well, Almost
| Self
2024 --
Remembering Gene Wilder
| Self
2023 --
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
| Self
2023 --
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
| Announcer (voice)
2022 --
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
| Shogun (voice)
2021 --
The Automat
| Self
2019 --
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
| Melephant Brooks (voice)
2019 --
Toy Story 4
| Melephant Brooks (voice)
2018 --
The Great Buster: A Celebration
| Self
2018 --
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
| Vlad (voice)
2018 --
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
| Self
2018 --
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
| Self
2017 --
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
| Self
2017 --
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
| Self
2017 --
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
| Self
2016 --
Ballerina
| Luteau (voice)
2016 --
Ballerina
| Mustachioed Creep (voice)
2016 --
It's Always About the Story: Conversations with Alan Ladd, Jr.
| Himself
2016 --
The Last Laugh
| Self
2016 --
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
| Self
2015 --
Hotel Transylvania 2
| Vlad (voice)
2015 --
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
| Self
2014 --
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
| Self (archive footage)
2014 --
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
| Albert Einstein (voice)
2013 --
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
| Self
2013 --
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
| Self
2012 --
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
| Self
2012 --
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
| Self
2012 --
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man
| Self
2011 --
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
| Self
2011 --
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
| Self (archive footage)
2009 --
Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense
| Self
2009 --
Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie'
| Self
2009 --
Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition
| Self
2009 --
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
| Self
2009 --
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
| Self
2009 --
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
| Self (archive)
2008 --
Spaceballs: The Totally Warped Animated Adventures
| President Skroob/Yogurt
2007 --
Hitler: The Comedy Years
| Singer in 'Springtime for Hitler' (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007 --
Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
| Self (archive footage)
2006 --
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
| Self
2005 --
The Producers
| Hilda the Pigeon / Tom the Cat (voice)
2005 --
John Candy: Comic Spirit
| Self
2005 --
Spaceballs: In Conversation - Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
| Self
2005 --
Robots
| Bigweld (voice)
2003 --
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
| Joe Snow (voice)
2003 --
Life Stinks: Does Life Really Stink?
| Self
2003 --
Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
| Himself
2002 --
The Making of 'The Producers'
| Self
2001 --
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
| Self
2001 --
Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
| Self / Host
2001 --
Back in the Saddle
| Self
2000 --
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
| Himself
2000 --
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
| Himself
2000 --
Sex, Lies and Video Violence
| Stressed old man
1999 --
Screw Loose
| Jake Gordon
1998 --
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
| Self (archive footage)
1997 --
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
| Self
1996 --
Caesar's Writers
| Self
1995 --
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
| Prof. Abraham Van Helsing
1994 --
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
| Self
1994 --
The Little Rascals
| Mr. Welling
1994 --
The Silence of the Hams
| Checkout Guest (uncredited)
1993 --
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
| Rabbi Tuckman
1993 --
'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming
| Self
1992 --
Mickey's Audition
| Movie Director
1991 --
Life Stinks
| Goddard Bolt
1990 --
Look Who's Talking Too
| Mr. Toilet Man (voice)
1988 --
Free to Be... a Family
| Self
1987 --
Spaceballs
| President Skroob / Yogurt
1984 --
Sunset People
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1984 --
An Audience with Mel Brooks
| Self
1983 --
To Be or Not to Be
| Dr. Frederick Bronski
1981 --
History of the World: Part I
| Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
1979 --
The Muppet Movie
| Professor Max Krassman
1979 --
The Muppets Go Hollywood
| Self
1978 --
Mickey's 50
| Self
1978 --
Peeping Times
| Adolf Hitler
1977 --
High Anxiety
| Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke
1976 --
Silent Movie
| Mel Funn
1975 --
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
| Lion victim (voice)
1975 --
The 2000 Year Old Man
| 2000 Year Old Man (voice)
1974 --
Young Frankenstein
| Werewolf / Cat Hit by Dart / Victor Frankenstein (voice)
1974 --
Free to Be… You and Me
| Baby Boy (voice)
1974 --
Blazing Saddles
| Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief
1970 --
The Twelve Chairs
| Tikon
1970 --
Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man
| Himself
1968 --
The Producers
| Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited)
1963 --
The Critic
| Narrator (voice)