Auteur

Mel Brooks

Born 1926 · American comedian, filmmaker, and actor

Melvin James Brooks is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, playwright and centenarian. With a career spanning nine decades, he is known for a variety of successful farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of the few people to win the EGOT awards. 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.

Mel Brooks, in order

  1. 1963 The Critic (short film): wrote · directed by Ernest Pintoff
  2. 1965–70 Get Smart (TV series): wrote, created · directed by Angelique Pettyjohn and Bruce Bilson
  3. 1967 The Producers: directed, wrote, acted
  4. 1970 The Twelve Chairs: directed, wrote, acted
  5. 1974 Blazing Saddles: directed, wrote, acted · critics 92%, audiences 90%
  6. 1974 Young Frankenstein: directed, wrote · critics 94%, audiences 92% · streaming on fuboTV
  7. 1975 When Things Were Rotten (TV series): created · directed by Bruce Bilson and Jerry Paris
  8. 1976 Silent Movie: directed, wrote, acted
  9. 1977 High Anxiety: directed, wrote, produced, acted
  10. 1979 The Muppet Movie: acted · directed by James Frawley · critics 89%, audiences 88% · streaming on Disney+
  11. 1980 Fatso: produced · directed by Anne Bancroft
  12. 1980 The Elephant Man: produced · directed by David Lynch
  13. 1980 The Nude Bomb: wrote · directed by Clive Donner
  14. 1981 History of the World, Part I: directed, wrote, produced, acted · critics 62%, audiences 81%
  15. 1982 Frances: produced · directed by Graeme Clifford
  16. 1982 My Favorite Year: produced · directed by Richard Benjamin
  17. 1983 To Be or Not to Be: produced, acted · directed by Alan Johnson
  18. 1986 Solarbabies: produced · directed by Alan Johnson
  19. 1986 The Fly: produced · directed by David Cronenberg · critics 82%, audiences 83%
  20. 1987 84 Charing Cross Road: produced · directed by David Hugh Jones
  21. 1987 Spaceballs: directed, wrote, produced, acted · critics 53%, audiences 83% · streaming on Prime Video, Philo, AMC+
  22. 1988 Free to Be... A Family: acted
  23. 1989 The Fly II: produced · directed by Chris Walas · critics 27%, audiences 24%
  24. 1989 The Nutt House (TV series): created · directed by Bruce Bilson
  25. 1990 Look Who's Talking Too: acted · directed by Amy Heckerling
  26. 1990 Loose Cannons: acted · directed by Bob Clark
  27. 1991 Life Stinks: directed, wrote, produced, acted
  28. 1992 The Vagrant: produced · directed by Chris Walas
  29. 1993 Robin Hood: Men in Tights: directed, wrote, produced, acted · critics 42%, audiences 81% · streaming on AMC+
  30. 1994 The Little Rascals: acted · directed by Penelope Spheeris
  31. 1994 The Silence of the Hams: acted · directed by Ezio Greggio
  32. 1995 Dracula: Dead and Loving It: directed, wrote, produced, acted
  33. 1999 Screw Loose: acted · directed by Ezio Greggio
  34. 2005 The Producers: wrote, produced, acted · directed by Susan Stroman
  35. 2008 Spaceballs: The Animated Series (TV series): created
  36. 2013 Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic: acted · directed by Marina Zenovich
  37. 2017 Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story: acted · directed by Alexandra Dean · critics 95%, audiences 85% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla
  38. 2023 History of the World, Part II (TV series): created, acted
  39. 2026 The Land of Sometimes: acted · directed by Leon Joosen
  40. 2027 Spaceballs: The New One: produced, acted · directed by Josh Greenbaum