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Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian known for his influential comedy career spanning nine decades. Mel Brooks was born on 28 June 1926.

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Who is Mel Brooks?

Mel Brooks is best known for Creating iconic comedy films and parodies, and being one of the few EGOT winners. Mel Brooks was born on 28 June 1926, which places Mel Brooks among the people in the Dead or Alive catalog born in the 1920s. On Dead or Alive, Mel Brooks is listed in the Screen Icons and Comedians categories, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Mel Brooks is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

Facts

Known for: Creating iconic comedy films and parodies, and being one of the few EGOT winners.
Born: 28 June 1926
Listed under: Screen Icons and Comedians

About Mel Brooks

He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016 and a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017. Brooks began his career as a writer for Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, where he worked with Mel Tolkin, Neil Simon and Carl Reiner. Reiner and Brooks co-created the comedy sketch The 2000 Year Old Man and shared the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000. With Buck Henry, he created the spy spoof Get Smart. Brooks won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Producers (1967). After The Twelve Chairs (1970), he made a string of successful comedies: Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein (both 1974), Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981) and Spaceballs (1987). His musical adaptation of The Producers ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007 and won 12 Tony Awards. It was adapted as a film in 2005. Through his company, Brooksfilms, he produced David Lynch's The Elephant Man (1980), David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986) and David Jones's 84 Charing Cross Road (1987).

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What is Mel Brooks known for?

Mel Brooks is known for Creating iconic comedy films and parodies, and being one of the few EGOT winners.

When was Mel Brooks born?

Mel Brooks was born on 28 June 1926.

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Mel Brooks appears in Screen Icons, Comedians.

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