Biography: life and films
Mel Brooks is an American actor, film director, screenwriter and producer whose birth name is Melvin James Kaminsky. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA on 28th June 1926.His best films as an actor include Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1977), Spaceballs (1987) and Life Stinks (1991), and whose best work as a film director include The Producers (1968), Young Frankenstein (1974) and Silent Movie (1976).
Mel Brooks has so far appeared in 19 films, scripted 16 films and directed 11 films.
His most frequent genres include: comedy (22 films), comedy-romance (3), history (2), comedy-thriller (2), comedy-drama (2), Thriller (2), Horror (2) and Animation (2).
Our average rating for Mel Brooks over all films is: 3.2
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer
New Faces (1954) [w]
The Ladies Man (1961) [w]
The Producers (1968) [d,w]
Putney Swope (1969) [a]
The Twelve Chairs (1970) [a,d,w]
Shinbone Alley (1971) [w]
Blazing Saddles (1974) [a,d,w]
Young Frankenstein (1974) [d,w]
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975) [a]
Silent Movie (1976) [a,d,w]
High Anxiety (1977) [a,d,w]
The Muppet Movie (1979) [a]
The Nude Bomb (1980) [w]
History of the World: Part I (1981) [a,d,w]
Sunset People (1984) [a]
Spaceballs (1987) [a,d,w]
Look Who's Talking Too (1990) [a]
Life Stinks (1991) [a,d,w]
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) [a,d,w]
The Little Rascals (1994) [a]
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) [a,d,w]
Svitati (1999) [a]
Robots (2005) [a]
The Producers (2005) [a,w]
Get Smart (2008) [w]
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) [a]
French cinema during the Nazi Occupation
The very best American film comedies
The best of Japanese cinema
