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Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American director, writer, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and comedy parodies.

Work

Writer/director

• The Producers (1968) (Academy Award, best original screenplay)
• The Twelve Chairs (1970) (also actor)
• Blazing Saddles (1974) (also actor)
• Young Frankenstein (1974)
• Silent Movie (1976) (also actor)
• High Anxiety (1977) (also actor)
• History of the World, Part I (1981) (also actor/producer)
• Spaceballs (1987) (also actor/producer)
• Life Stinks (1991) (also actor/producer)
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) (also actor/producer)
• Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) (also actor/producer)

Theater

• Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1952 (1952) (sketches for a revue)
• Shinbone Alley (1957) (co-book-writer)
• All-American (1962) (book-writer)
• The Producers (2001) (composer, lyricist, co-book-writer, producer; Tony Award for Best Musical, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical,Tony Award for Best Original Score)
• Young Frankenstein (2007) (composer, lyricist, co-book-writer, producer)

Other works

• Your Show of Shows (TV) (1950-1954) (writer)
• The Critic (short film, Academy Award winner for Short Subjects (Cartoons)) (1963) (created and narrated)
• Get Smart (TV) (1965-1970) (co-creator, writer)
• When Things Were Rotten (1975) (co-created, writer)
• The Electric Company (TV) (1971-1977) (voice of recurring little cartoon man who asks: "Who's the dummy writing this show?!")
• The Elephant Man (1980) (uncredited executive producer)
• To Be or Not to Be (1983) (actor, producer)
• The Fly (1986) (uncredited producer)
• The Fly II (1989) (uncredited producer)
• The Tracy Ulmann Show (1990) (actor-Buzz Schlanger)
• Look Who's Talking Too (voice of Mr. Toilet Man)
• Frasier (1993) (voice of Tom)
• The Little Rascals (1994) (actor-Mr. Welling)
• Silence of the Hams (1994) (actor-Checkout Guest)
• The Prince of Egypt (1998) (uncredited, additional voices)
• Svitati (AKA Screw Loose) (1999) (actor-Jake Gordon)
• Mad About You (TV) (1996-1999) (actor-Uncle Phil)
• Sex, lögner & videovåld (2000) (video) (actor-Stressed Old Man)
• It's a Very Muppet Christmas Movie (TV) (2002) (voice of Joe Snow)
• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Season 2 (voice of Santa Claus)
• Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (2003-present) (voice of Wiley the Sheep)
• Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 4 (actor)
• Robots (2005) (voice of Bigweld)
• The Producers (2005) (writer, producer)
• Jakers! The Adventures of Piggly Winks (2003) (voice of Wiley the Sheep)
• Spaceballs: The Animated Series (2007) (writer, producer, voice)