Age, Biography and Wiki
Mel Brooks is an American director, actor, comedian, producer, and composer. He is best known for his comedy films, such as The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and Spaceballs. He has won four Academy Awards, three Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and a Tony Award.
Born Melvin James Kaminsky on June 28, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York, he was the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland. He attended Abraham Lincoln High School and later enrolled at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Brooks began his career as a stand-up comedian in the 1950s, performing in clubs and on television. He then moved into writing and producing for television, creating the hit series Get Smart in 1965. He made his feature film debut with The Producers in 1968, which won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
In 1974, he directed the classic comedy Blazing Saddles, which was a huge success and earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. He followed this up with the equally successful Young Frankenstein in 1974 and Spaceballs in 1987.
In addition to his film work, Brooks has also written and performed in several Broadway shows, including The Producers, which won him a Tony Award for Best Musical in 2001.
Brooks has been married three times and has four children. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
| Popular As |
Melvin James Kaminsky |
| Occupation |
actor,writer,soundtrack |
| Age |
96 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Cancer |
| Born |
28 June, 1926 |
| Birthday |
28 June |
| Birthplace |
New York City, U.S. |
| Nationality |
United States |
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He is a member of famous Actor with the age 96 years old group.
Mel Brooks Height, Weight & Measurements
At 96 years old, Mel Brooks height is 5' 5" (1.65 m) .
| Physical Status |
| Height |
5' 5" (1.65 m) |
| Weight |
Not Available |
| Body Measurements |
Not Available |
| Eye Color |
Not Available |
| Hair Color |
Not Available |
Who Is Mel Brooks's Wife?
His wife is Florence Baum (m. 1953-1962)
Anne Bancroft (m. 1964-2005)
| Family |
| Parents |
Not Available |
| Wife |
Florence Baum (m. 1953-1962)
Anne Bancroft (m. 1964-2005) |
| Sibling |
Not Available |
| Children |
4, including Max |
Mel Brooks Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Mel Brooks worth at the age of 96 years old? Mel Brooks’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from United States. We have estimated
Mel Brooks's net worth
, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2023 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2022 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2022 |
Under Review |
| House |
Not Available |
| Cars |
Not Available |
| Source of Income |
Actor |
Mel Brooks Social Network
Timeline
His musical, "The Producers", at the Mercury Theater in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2016 Joseph Jefferson (Equity) Award for Midsize Musical Production.
His musical, "Young Frankenstein", at the Drury Lane Productions in Chicago, was nominated for a 2014 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Large Musical Production.
Was presented, by Martin Scorsese, the 41st Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, California on June 6, 2013.
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on April 23, 2010.
Is one of the five winners of the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors. Other 2009 winners were Bruce Springsteen, Robert De Niro, Dave Brubeck and Grace Bumbry.
His musical, "The Producers", at the Marriott Theatre in Chicago, was nominated for a 2008 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Large Musical Production.
Produced the stage musical adaptation of his movie Young Frankenstein (1974). The musical opened on Halloween night, October 31, 2007, at the St. James Theatre on Broadway after a summer try-out at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle. [April 2007]
He produced and wrote the music, lyrics, and book for the Broadway musical "The Producers" (2001), the musical version of his earlier movie The Producers (1967). The Broadway hit musical then lead to the musical movie The Producers (2005).
He also worked in the creation of The 2000 Year Old Man (1975) and Get Smart (1965) before embarking on a highly successful film career in writing, acting, producing and directing.
Is close friends with Italian television star Ezio Greggio, whose movies he inspired. Brooks is often a guest on Greggio's shows, and offered Greggio a small role in his movie Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995), due to this friendship.
Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy", by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 63-66. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
Worked with son Nicky Brooks at Brooksfilm. Nicky was a story editor on The Fly (1986), The Fly II (1989) and Spaceballs (1987).
Has performed a rap song for the soundtrack of History of the World: Part I (1981) called "It's Good to Be the King". It was a surprisingly successful hip-hop/dance hit in 1981. He followed it up with "Hitler Rap" for To Be or Not to Be (1983). The song was not as successful. But the lyric "Don't be stupid, be a smarty/Come and join the Nazi Party" was originally used in the original movie version of The Producers (1967), then later reused in Brooks' Broadway version of "The Producers".
Was considered for the role of Dr. Sam Loomis in the horror film Halloween (1978), which went to Donald Pleasence.
Though Blazing Saddles (1974) and Young Frankenstein (1974) are often cited as his best and most popular films as a director, his biggest video sales are Spaceballs (1987) and Robin Hood: Men In Tights (1993).
His film The Producers (1967) was the inspiration for the title of the album "Achtung Baby" (1991) by the rock band U2.
In 1966, he was about to co-star in a movie called "Easy Come, Easy Go" with Jan Berry and Dean Torrence in the leading roles. What would have been his on-screen debut, was canceled due to a car wreck during shooting, in which Berry suffered a severe brain damage and paralysis. On the casting list was also British comedy star Terry-Thomas.
In 1962, the year that his divorce from his first wife was finalized, Brooks wrote an original screenplay entitled "Marriage is a Dirty Rotten Fraud". It was never filmed.
Brooks introduced himself to Anne Bancroft in 1961 while she was making her first appearance on Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1948) (she would later return to appear on that show on various occasions over several years). Brooks bribed a woman who worked on the show to tell him at which restaurant Bancroft was going to dine so he could "accidentally" bump into her again and strike up a conversation. It worked. The two fell in love and eventually married at New York City's municipal Marriage Bureau in Lower Manhattan, where a passerby served as witness.
He has two roles in common with both Peter Cushing and Dennis Price: (1) Cushing played Victor Frankenstein in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957). The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), The Evil of Frankenstein (1964), Frankenstein Created Woman (1967), Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969), One More Time (1970) and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974), Price played him in Drácula contra Frankenstein (1972) and La maldición de Frankenstein (1973) and Brooks played him in Young Frankenstein (1974) and (2) Cushing played Professor Van Helsing in Horror of Dracula (1958), The Brides of Dracula (1960), Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972), The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) and The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974), Price played him in Son of Dracula (1973) and Brooks played him in Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995).
Counts Strangers on a Train (1951) as his favorite Alfred Hitchcock film.
He was a writer for, Your Show of Shows (1950) Caesar's Hour (1954) and wrote the Broadway show Shinbone Alley.
Has cited his favorite films as Bicycle Thieves (1948) and La Grande Illusion (1937).
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985." Pages 162-167. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
The 1944 edition of the Eastern District High School (Brooklyn, N.Y.) yearbook featured the future Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky) stating that his goal was to become President of the United States; forty-three years later, in 1987, his ambition was to be fulfilled, if only in fiction and in part -- in the movie Spaceballs (1987), he portrayed Spaceball leader "President Skroob" (an anagram of "Brooks").
In an NPR interview, he mentioned that he attended Virginia Military Institute and thus, in reference to the 1938 film's setting, was a "Brother Rat".
His running "walk this way" gag is also the inspiration for the song "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith. The gag was copied from William Powell's ad-lib in After the Thin Man (1936).
Mel Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. He served in WWII, and afterwards got a job playing the drums at nightclubs in the Catskills. Brooks eventually started a comedy act and also worked in radio and as Master Entertainer at Grossinger's Resort before going to television.
