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Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks is the producer of provocative comedies which challenge perceptions. His first production "Blazing Saddles" was a send up of Western genres during a time when racism was rampant. A passionate producer, his films delight, shock, and entertain movie goers. He acts, directs, and produces.
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Does Mel Brooks have children?
Mel Brooks was married to Anne Bancroft for 41 years, until her death in 2005.
How many movies has mel brooks acted in?
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/producer)
- 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)
- The Producers (remake, he was credited for producer and writer
- 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, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical)
- Young Frankenstein (2007) (composer, lyricist, co-book-writer, producer)
- Your Show of Shows (TV) (1950-1954) (writer)
- New Faces of 1952 (Broadway) (1952) (writer) and "New Faces", the 1954 film version (writer)
- The Critic (created and narrated, won Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film) (1963)
- Get Smart (TV) (1965-1970) (co-creator, writer)
- The Electric Company (TV) (1971-1977) (voice of recurring little cartoon man who asks: "Who's the dummy writing this show?!")
- "Hollywood Squares" (1972) (Guest star)
- When Things Were Rotten (1975) (co-created, writer)
- The Muppet Movie (1979)(Mad Scientist)
- 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 Ullman Show (1990) (actor-Buzz Schlanger)
- Look Who's Talking Too (1990) (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)
- Mad About You (TV) (1996-1999) (actor-Uncle Phil)
- The Prince of Egypt (1998) (uncredited, additional voices)
- Svitati (AKA Screw Loose) (1999) (actor-Jake Gordon)
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Season 2(2003) (voice of Santa Claus)
- Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (2003-present) (voice of Wiley the Sheep)
- Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 4 (2004) (actor)
- Robots (2005) (voice of Bigweld)
- The Producers (2005) (writer, producer)
- Spaceballs: The Animated Series (2008) (writer, producer, voice)
- "Get Smart" (2008) (Consultant)
- "The 2000 Year Old Man: The Complete History" (2009) DVDLA Times revue
Has anyone published the sheet music for the song High Anxiety from the Mel Brooks movie?
I don't believe that anyone has published sheet music for that tune but I am very, VERY familiar with it. Would you like to order my interpretation of the song. I have performed it for many years.
Who is Mel Brooks favorite actor?
Sorry, only Mel Brooks can answer that question, and politically, he probably would not.
While she might not be his all time favorite, I heard Mr. Brooks say in an interview a couple years ago that when he was casting for Blazing Saddles, he fell instantly in "lust" with Madeline Kahn when she auditioned for the part of Lili von Shtupp.
What U2 album got its title from a Mel Brooks movie?
Album Achtung Baby got its name from a line in Mel Brooks film The Producers. The band adopted the name for the album after sound engineer Joe O'Herlihy had been using it in the studio during recording.
Yes, as of mid-2017, he is. Brooks (born June 28, 1926), the "Boss" Bruce Springsteen, and Robert DeNiro received the Kennedy Center honors with President Obama in 2009.
Why did Mel Brooks change his name from Melvin Kaminsky?
Kaminsky was simply too ethnic for the time. he was born in 1926, he grew up in a time of anti-semitism. He would encounter less resistance as Mel Brooks than he would as Melvin Kaminsky.
What did mel brooks do in Putney Swope?
His part is listed as "Mr Forget It."
Although I have not seen the film, my GUESS is that he speaks only those two words and then walks off screen.
How many roles did Mel Brooks play in blazing saddles?
Governor William J. Lepetomane and Indian Chief.
In Mel Brooks Silent Movie who has the only speaking line in the entire movie?
Marcel Marceau, some french mime
Not just some French mime, but the master of mimes!!!!!!
Will mel brooks make history of the world-part 2?
No
He never meant to make part 2, It was all a Mel Brooks joke.
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What song was Oscar Peterson playing in the Mel Brooks comedy Blazin Saddles?
If you're referring to the scene in which we first see Sheriff Bart (Cleavon Little) riding toward Rock Ridge, then that was the great Count Basie and his orchestra performing their classic version of "April in Paris."
Did Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks having a falling out?
Not a falling out, but they had a HUGE argument during the making of Young Frankenstein . Gene thought it would be funny to have the Monster sing, "Putting on the Ritz"; Mel was completely against it. Mel freely admits that the two screamed at each other for twenty minutes over this idea, and that he gave in only because Gene was so insistent.
Mel also admits he's now embarassed when people tell him that they love that film, and that the "Putting on the Ritz" is their favorite part -- when he knows he was dead set against having it.
Mel and Gene also nearly had a falling out over making Young Frankenstein into a Broadway musical. Ironically, this time it was Mel who was insistent about doing so, and Gene who was against it! Happily, they worked things out, with Gene even accompanying Mel to the premiere of the stage version of the film they co-wrote.
When did Mark Blankfield play as a blind man?
When he acted in Men in tights he played Blinkin robins man servant who spends the whole movie running into things or doing other comedic mistakes that mel brooks is famous for writing such characters
Is there a sequel to history of the world by another director?
No, there was not, nor was there ever intended to be a sequel. Mel Brooks came up with the title because he was tired of people asking him what his next film would be.
