Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks (born Melvin James Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. He began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows (1950–1954) alongside Woody Allen, Neil Simon and Larry Gelbart. With Carl Reiner, he created the comic character The 2000 Year Old Man. He wrote, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series Get Smart (1965–1970). 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 their respective years of release. His best-known films include The Producers (1967), The Twelve Chairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1977), H...
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Spaceballs: The New One
Addicted to It
The Land of Sometimes
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
Flower of the Dawn
John Candy: I Like Me
Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
Remembering Gene Wilder
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
The Automat
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
BAFTA 2017
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
Ballerina
It's Always About the Story: Conversations with Alan Ladd, Jr.
The Last Laugh
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition
Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie'
Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
Spaceballs: The Totally Warped Animated Adventures
Hitler: The Comedy Years- CUCutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
Spaceballs: The Documentary- JOJohn Candy: Comic Spirit
Robots
Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
Back in the Saddle- THThe Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
- THThe Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
Screw Loose
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
Caesar's Writers
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming
Mickey's Audition
Look Who's Talking Too
Free to Be... a Family
An Audience with Mel Brooks
To Be or Not to Be
The Muppet Movie
Mickey's 50
Peeping Times
The 2000 Year Old Man
Free to Be… You and Me
The Critic- FUFunny Men in Tights: Three Generations of Comedy
- UNUntitled Nathan Lane Documentary
- UNUntitled Lani Pixels Project
- ENEnormous
