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    "On this day: Mel Brooks is born". The Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on August 19, 2019. Retrieved June 26, 2019. Brooks, Mel (January 31...
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    Mel Brooks is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker of the stage, television, and screen. He started his work as a comedy writer, actor, and then director...
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    Maximillian Michael Brooks (born May 22, 1972) is an American author. He is the son of comedian Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft. Much of Brooks's writing focuses...
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  • is a 1981 American comedy film written, produced, and directed by Mel Brooks. Brooks also stars in the film, playing five roles: Moses, Comicus the stand-up...
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    starring Sid Caesar, writing alongside Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Woody Allen. Reiner teamed up with Brooks and together they released several iconic...
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    Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971). He collaborated with Mel Brooks on the films The Producers (1967), Blazing Saddles (1974) and Young Frankenstein...
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    She was married to director, actor, and writer Mel Brooks, with whom she had a son, author Max Brooks. Bancroft was born Anna Maria Louisa (or Luisa)...
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  • Robin Hood: Men in Tights (category Films directed by Mel Brooks)
    the Robin Hood story. The film was produced and directed by Mel Brooks, co-written by Brooks, Evan Chandler, and J. David Shapiro based on a story by Chandler...
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  • Spaceballs (category Films directed by Mel Brooks)
    American space opera parody film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks. It is primarily a parody of the original Star Wars trilogy, but also...
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  • Blazing Saddles (category Films directed by Mel Brooks)
    American satirical postmodernist Western black comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman...
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  • History of the World, Part II (category Television series created by Mel Brooks)
    Mel Brooks, Wanda Sykes, Nick Kroll, Ike Barinholtz, and David Stassen. The series serves as a sequel to the 1981 film written and directed by Brooks...
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  • The Producers (1967 film) (category Films directed by Mel Brooks)
    is a 1967 American satirical black comedy film written and directed by Mel Brooks and starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, and Kenneth Mars. The...
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  • Life Stinks (category Films directed by Mel Brooks)
    film co-written, produced, directed by and starring Mel Brooks. It is one of the few Mel Brooks comedies that is not a parody, nor at any time does the...
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    director, producer, comedian, and composer Mel Brooks. Over his 70 year career in film, theatre, and television Brooks has won an Academy Award, four Emmys...
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    and Mama's Family (1983–1984). He starred in several comedy films by Mel Brooks including Blazing Saddles (1974), High Anxiety (1977), and History of...
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  • comedy sketch created by Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks in the 1950s and first publicly performed in the 1960s. Brooks plays a 2000-year-old man, interviewed...
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  • High Anxiety (category Films directed by Mel Brooks)
    American satirical comedy film produced and directed by Mel Brooks, who also plays the lead. This is Brooks' first film as a producer and first speaking lead...
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  • episode of Gilligan's Island The Producers (1967 film), black comedy by Mel Brooks The Producers (2005 film), American musical comedy film based on 1967...
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  • Young Frankenstein (category Films directed by Mel Brooks)
    is a 1974 American comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks. The screenplay was co-written by Brooks and Gene Wilder. Wilder also starred in the lead...
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    Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979). Pryor served as a co-writer for the Mel Brooks satirical western comedy film Blazing Saddles (1974). As an actor, he...
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  • American screenwriter and actor best known for his work with filmmaker Mel Brooks. In April 1972, he opened The Comedy Store with Sammy Shore. The Carol...
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  • musical comedy with music and lyrics by Mel Brooks, and a book by Brooks and Thomas Meehan. It is adapted from Brooks's 1967 film of the same name. The story...
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  • filmmaker Mel Brooks (born 1926) received his fourth distinct award in June 2001. Between 1968 and 2002, Brooks received a total of 11 awards. Brooks was the...
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  • Lawrence Mel Brooks (born February 26, 1950, in New York City) is an American hockey journalist for the New York Post, covering the New York Rangers in...
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  • Silent Movie (category Films directed by Mel Brooks)
    American satirical silent comedy film cowritten, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, released by 20th Century Fox in summer 1976. The ensemble cast includes...
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    for Caesar early in their careers were Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Larry Gelbart, Carl Reiner, Michael Stewart, Mel Tolkin, Lucille Kallen, Selma Diamond,...
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    special We Lost Our Human. Also in 2023, she appeared in an episode of the Mel Brooks Hulu series History of the World, Part II and the Black Mirror episode...
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  • Dracula: Dead and Loving It (category Films directed by Mel Brooks)
    by Mel Brooks and starring Leslie Nielsen. It is a spoof of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula and of some of the story's well-known adaptations. Brooks co-authored...
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  • sure-fire flop. The part was originally cast for Dustin Hoffman, but Mel Brooks allowed him to audition for the film adaptation of The Graduate before...
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  • The Twelve Chairs (1970 film) (category Films directed by Mel Brooks)
    Twelve Chairs is a 1970 American comedy film directed and written by Mel Brooks, and starring Frank Langella, Ron Moody and Dom DeLuise. The film is one...
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