His films include The Producers (1967), The Twelve Chairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), Spaceballs (1987), and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993). With Buck Henry he created the hit television comedy series Get Smart, which starred Don Adams and ran from 1965 to 1970.īrooks rose to prominence becoming one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s. With Carl Reiner, he created the comedy sketch The 2000 Year Old Man, and together, they released several comedy albums, starting with 2000 Year Old Man in 1960. 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, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and the Honorary Academy Award in 2023.īrooks began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows from 1950 to 1954. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 18 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. Melvin James Brooks ( né Kaminsky June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright.
