"On this day: Mel Brooks is born". The Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on August 19, 2019. Retrieved June 26, 2019. Brooks, Mel (January 31...
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Mel Brooks is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker of the stage, television, and screen. He started his work as a comedy writer, actor, and then director...
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Maximilian Michael Brooks (born May 22, 1972) is an American author. He is the son of comedian Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft. Much of Brooks's writing focuses...
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Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971). He collaborated with Mel Brooks on the films The Producers (1967), Blazing Saddles (1974) and Young Frankenstein...
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starring Sid Caesar, writing alongside Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Woody Allen. Reiner teamed up with Brooks and together they released several iconic...
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History of the World, Part I (redirect from Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part I)
is a 1981 American comedy film written, produced, and directed by Mel Brooks. Brooks also stars in the film, playing five roles: Moses, Comicus the stand-up...
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She was married to director, actor, and writer Mel Brooks, with whom she had a son, author Max Brooks. Bancroft was born Anna Maria Luisa Italiano on...
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Spaceballs (category Films directed by Mel Brooks)
American space opera parody film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks. It primarily parodies the original Star Wars trilogy, but also of other...
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Producer (redirect from The Producers (Mel Brooks))
episode of Gilligan's Island The Producers (1967 film), black comedy by Mel Brooks The Producers (2005 film), American musical comedy film based on 1967...
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The following is a List of awards and nominations received by Mel Brooks. Mel Brooks is an American actor, writer, director, producer, comedian, and composer...
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History of the World, Part II (category Television series created by Mel Brooks)
Mel Brooks, Wanda Sykes, Nick Kroll, Ike Barinholtz, and David Stassen. The series serves as a sequel to the 1981 film written and directed by Brooks...
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List of EGOT winners (section Mel Brooks)
filmmaker Mel Brooks (born 1926) received his fourth distinct award in June 2001. Between 1968 and 2002, Brooks received a total of 11 awards. Brooks was the...
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her role as Inga, an assistant to Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, in the Mel Brooks horror comedy Young Frankenstein (1974), which marked a career breakthrough...
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Blazing Saddles (category Films directed by Mel Brooks)
American satirical postmodernist Western black comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman...
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights (category Films directed by Mel Brooks)
the Robin Hood story. The film was produced and directed by Mel Brooks, co-written by Brooks, Evan Chandler, and J. David Shapiro based on a story by Chandler...
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Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979). Pryor served as a co-writer for the Mel Brooks satirical western comedy film Blazing Saddles (1974). As an actor, he...
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The Producers (1967 film) (category Films directed by Mel Brooks)
American satirical black comedy film. It was directed and written by Mel Brooks, and stars Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, and Kenneth Mars. The...
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Washington Post. "Mel Brooks on His New Box Set and the 1 Million Great Stories that Come with It". Vulture. November 13, 2012. "Mel Brooks: 'I'm An EGOT;...
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2000 Year Old Man (redirect from 2000 Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks)
comedy sketch created by Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks in the 1950s and first publicly performed in the 1960s. Brooks plays a 2000-year-old man, interviewed...
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Life Stinks (category Films directed by Mel Brooks)
film co-written, produced, directed by and starring Mel Brooks. It is one of the few Mel Brooks comedies that is not a parody, nor at any time does the...
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High Anxiety (category Films directed by Mel Brooks)
American satirical comedy film produced and directed by Mel Brooks, who also plays the lead. This is Brooks' first film as a producer and first speaking lead...
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and Mama's Family (1983–1984). He starred in several comedy films by Mel Brooks including Blazing Saddles (1974), High Anxiety (1977), and History of...
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Young Frankenstein (category Films directed by Mel Brooks)
is a 1974 American comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks. The screenplay was co-written by Brooks and Gene Wilder. Wilder also starred in the lead...
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Silent Movie (category Films directed by Mel Brooks)
American satirical silent comedy film co-written, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, released by 20th Century Fox in summer 1976. The ensemble cast includes...
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The Twelve Chairs (1970 film) (category Films directed by Mel Brooks)
Twelve Chairs is a 1970 American comedy film directed and written by Mel Brooks, and starring Frank Langella, Ron Moody and Dom DeLuise. The film is one...
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by David Lynch, produced by Jonathan Sanger, and executive produced by Mel Brooks (who was uncredited, to avoid audiences anticipating the film being in...
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for Caesar early in their careers were Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Larry Gelbart, Carl Reiner, Michael Stewart, Mel Tolkin, Lucille Kallen, Selma Diamond,...
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production. Other notable projects include The Mouse on the Moon (1963), Mel Brooks' The Twelve Chairs (1970) and Flight of the Doves (1971), in which Moody...
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It (category Films directed by Mel Brooks)
by Mel Brooks and starring Leslie Nielsen. It is a spoof of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula and of some of the story's well-known adaptations. Brooks co-authored...
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Lawrence Mel Brooks (born February 26, 1950, in New York City) is an American hockey journalist for the New York Post, covering the New York Rangers in...
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