Mel Brooks
Realizador cinematográfico, actor, guionista y productor estadounidense. Nació en el barrio neoyorquino de Brooklyn el 28 de junio de 1926 y su verdadero nombre es Melvyn Kaminsky. Tras finalizar la escuela se alistó en el ejército y durante la II Guerra Mundial sirvió como especialista en la retirada de minas. A partir de 1945 trabajó como percusionista en cabarés y como cómico en recintos feriales y en la radio. Además, desempeñó tareas de periodista y redactor de anuncios y espacios televisivos. Desde 1949 hasta 1957 diseñó, junto a Woody Allen, entre otros, gags para los espacios televisivos del célebre cómico Sid Caesar. En 1962 escribió el guión para el cortometraje The Critic von Ernest Pinthoff, que le supuso en 1964 su primera candidatura para un Oscar. Mel Brooks debutó como director en 1966 con la sátira Los productores, cuyo guión fue galardonado con un Oscar en 1968. Durante las décadas de 1970 y 1980 su labor como director de parodias cinematográficas se vio coronada por diferentes éxitos. Entre sus obras más famosas se cuentan El jovencito Frankenstein (1974), Sillas de montar calientes (1974), La última locura (1976), La loca historia del mundo (1981) y La loca historia de las galaxias (1987). Durante la década de 1990 vieron la luz Qué asco de vida (1991) y Las locas locas aventuras de Robin Hood (1993). En numerosas ocasiones también ha interpretado papeles principales en sus películas, como en La loca historia de las galaxias. Desde 1979 Mel Brooks también se dedica a la producción: además de sus propias películas ha producido entre otras El hombre elefante (1980), de David Lynch, y La mosca (1986), de David Cronenberg.
Fotos
Películas (122)
Spaceballs: The New One
2027 · President Skroob / Yogurt, Producer, Original Film Writer
Addicted to It
2026 · Phoney Bunny
The Land of Sometimes
2026 · The Postman (voice)
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
2025
Flower of the Dawn
2025 · Bürgermeister (voice)
John Candy: I Like Me
2025 · Self - Director, Spaceballs
Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words
2025 · Self
From Darkness to Light
2025 · Self (archive footage)
Mel Brooks: Seriously... Well, Almost
2024 · Self
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024 · Self
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023 · Self
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
2023 · Self - Announcer (voice)
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
2022 · Shogun (voice), Executive Producer, Original Film Writer
The Automat
2021 · Self, Songs
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
2019 · Melephant Brooks (voice)
The Producers
2019 · Lyricist, Writer, Music
Toy Story 4
2019 · Melephant Brooks (voice)
The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018 · Self
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
2018 · Vlad (voice)
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018 · Self
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018 · Self
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
2017 · Self
Mel Brooks: The Genius Entertainer
2017 · Himself
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
2017 · Self
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
2017 · Self
Ballerina
2016 · Luteau (US version)
It's Always About the Story: Conversations with Alan Ladd, Jr.
2016 · Himself
The Last Laugh
2016 · Self
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
2016 · Self
Hotel Transylvania 2
2015 · Vlad (voice)
Sam
2015 · Executive Producer
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen
2015 · Self, Writer, Executive Producer
Ride
2014 · Thanks
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
2014 · Self (archive footage)
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
2014 · Albert Einstein (voice)
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
2013 · Self
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 · Self
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
2012 · Self
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
2012 · Self
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man
2012 · Self
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
2011 · Self
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
2011 · Self (archive footage)
Ruby's Studio: the Feelings Show
2010 · Sally Simon Simmons Narrator
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
2009 · Self
Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition
2009 · Self
Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie'
2009 · Self
Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense
2009 · Self
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
2009 · Self
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
2009 · Self (archive)
Spaceballs: The Totally Warped Animated Adventures
2008 · President Skroob/Yogurt
Get Smart
2008 · Characters
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007 · Singer in 'Springtime for Hitler' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
2007 · Self (archive footage)
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
2006 · Self
The Producers
2005 · Hilda the Pigeon / Tom the Cat (voice), Screenplay, Producer, Songs
Spaceballs: The Documentary
2005 · Self
Spaceballs: In Conversation - Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
2005 · Self
John Candy: Comic Spirit
2005 · Self
Robots
2005 · Bigweld (voice)
Life Stinks: Does Life Really Stink?
2003 · Self
Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
2003 · Himself
The Making of 'The Producers'
2002 · Self
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
2002 · Joe Snow (voice)
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
2001 · Self
Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
2001 · Self / Host
Back in the Saddle
2001 · Self
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
2000 · Himself
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
2000 · Himself
Sex, Lies and Video Violence
2000 · Stressed old man
Screw Loose
1999 · Jake Gordon
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
1998 · Self (archive footage)
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
1997 · Self
Caesar's Writers
1996 · Self
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
1995 · Prof. Abraham Van Helsing, Producer, Director, Screenplay
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994 · Self
The Little Rascals
1994 · Mr. Welling
The Silence of the Hams
1994 · Checkout Guest (uncredited)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
1993 · Rabbi Tuckman, Screenplay, Director, Producer
'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming
1993 · Self
Mickey's Audition
1992 · Movie Director
The Vagrant
1992 · Executive Producer
Life Stinks
1991 · Goddard Bolt, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Story
Look Who's Talking Too
1990 · Mr. Toilet Man (voice)
The Fly II
1989 · Producer
Free to Be... a Family
1988 · Self
Spaceballs
1987 · President Skroob / Yogurt, Producer, Director, Screenplay
84 Charing Cross Road
1987 · Executive Producer
Solarbabies
1986 · Producer
The Doctor and the Devils
1985 · Executive Producer
Sunset People
1984 · Self
An Audience with Mel Brooks
1984 · Self, Writer
To Be or Not to Be
1983 · Dr. Frederick Bronski, Producer
History of the World: Part I
1981 · Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI, Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Nude Bomb
1980 · Characters
Fatso
1980 · Producer
The Muppet Movie
1979 · Professor Max Krassman
The Muppets Go Hollywood
1979 · Self (uncredited)
Mickey's 50
1978 · Self
Loose Shoes
1978 · Producer
Peeping Times
1978 · Adolf Hitler
High Anxiety
1977 · Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke, Writer, Producer, Director, Songs
Silent Movie
1976 · Mel Funn, Screenplay, Director
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
1975 · Lion victim (voice)
The 2000 Year Old Man
1975 · 2000 Year Old Man (voice), Writer
Young Frankenstein
1974 · Werewolf / Cat / Victor Frankenstein (voice) (uncredited), Screenplay, Director, Screenstory
Free to Be… You and Me
1974 · Baby Boy (voice)
Blazing Saddles
1974 · William Le Petomane / Indian Chief, Director, Screenplay, Lyricist, Songs
The Twelve Chairs
1970 · Tikon, Director, Screenplay
Shinbone Alley
1970 · Author, Writer
Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man
1970 · Himself, Writer
The Producers
1968 · Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited), Director, Songs, Lyricist, Writer
Get Smart: A Man Called Smart
1967 · Writer
The Critic
1963 · Narrator (voice), Writer, Creator
Inside Danny Baker
1963 · Writer
The Ladies Man
1961 · Writer
New Faces
1954 · Writer
Untitled Lani Pixels Project
· Gatekeeper (voice)
Enormous
· Bernie (voice)
Untitled Nathan Lane Documentary
· Self
Funny Men in Tights: Three Generations of Comedy
· Self
Grown Ups 3
Untitled Get Smart Reboot
· Characters
Series (54)
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
2026 · Self
History of the World: Part II
2023 · Narrator (voice), Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
Only Murders in the Building
2021 · Mel Brooks
Forky Asks a Question
2019 · Melephant Brooks (voice)
Somebody Feed Phil
2018 · Self
To Tell the Truth
2016 · Self - Panelist
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
2012 · Self
Inside Comedy
2012 · Self
The Paul Reiser Show
2011 · The Angry Cat (voice)
Glenn Martin, DDS
2009
Spaceballs: The Animated Series
2008 · President Skroob / Yogurt (voice), Executive Producer, Main Title Theme Composer, Writer, Creator
Legends
2006 · Mel Funn (archive footage) (uncredited)
Broadway: The American Musical
2004 · Self
Parkinson
2004 · Self - Guest
Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
2003 · Wiley (voice)
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self - Guest
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
2002 · Santa Claus (voice)
Primetime Glick
2001
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000 · Mel Brooks
The Frank Skinner Show
1995 · Self
RTL Samstag Nacht
1993
Live & Kicking
1993 · Self
Frasier
1993 · Tom (voice)
Mad About You
1992 · Uncle Phil
Noel's House Party
1991
Los Simpson
1989 · Mel Brooks (voice)
The Nutt House
1989 · Writer, Creator
Saturday Night Clive
1989
Wogan
1982 · Self
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Self
An Audience with...
1978 · Self
Ciné regards
1978 · Self
Please Turn the Page
1977 · Self
Everyman
1977
When Things Were Rotten
1975 · Guard (uncredited), Producer, Writer, Creator
Flick Flack
1974
Film '72
1971 · Self
The Electric Company
1971 · Blond-Haired Cartoon Man (voice)
Great Performances
1971 · Self
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Self - Guest
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968 · Self (uncredited)
Get Smart
1965 · Writer, Creator
The Hollywood Palace
1964 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
The New Steve Allen Show
1961 · Self - 2000 Year Old Man
The Grammys
1959 · Self
The David Susskind Show
1959 · Self
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Winner
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Self
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Nominee
Very Young Frankenstein
· Original Film Writer, Executive Producer