Mel BrooksFilmography

Mike Douglas: Moments and Memories

Actors: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Bob Newhart, Bill Cosby, Martin Luther King Jr.

Synopsis: Per its title, the compilation release Mike Douglas: Moments and Memories serves up a collection of nostalgic clips from the popular talk program The Mike Douglas Show. Featured guests include Bob Hope, Bob Newhart, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Steve Martin and a young Billy Crystal. ~ Nathan Read More

The Producers

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Lyricist, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, Gary Beach

Synopsis: After transforming his first motion picture into a smash Broadway musical, Mel Brooks brings the story of two would-be theatrical moguls turned con men back to the screen in this musical comedy. Max Bialystock (Nathan Lane) was once one of Broadway's most successful producers, but a string of Read More

Robots

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Robin Williams, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks

Synopsis: For this follow-up to their mega-hit Ice Age, directors Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge team with the screenwriting duo behind Parenthood and City Slickers, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. Robots stars Ewan McGregor as the voice of Rodney Copperbottom, an idealistic robot who wants to convince his Read More

Broadway: The American Musical, Episode 6 - Putting It Together (1980-Present)

Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks [Animated TV Series]

Synopsis: This 3D-animation children's series was staged in flashback form, as an elderly pig regaled his grandchildren with stories of his youth on the Raloo Farm in Ireland. Among the many friends of young Piggley Winks were Wiley the Sheep (his voice provided by the legendary Mel Brooks), Dannan the Read More

100 Years of Hope & Humor

Actors: Bob Hope, Jane Pauley

Synopsis: Taped approximately six weeks before the 100th birthday of comedy legend Bob Hope, this elaborate (and highly-rated) TV "love letter" to "Old Ski Nose" is hosted by former Today Show anchor Jane Pauley. The special covers the familiar biographical ground, tracing British-born Leslie Townes Hope Read More

It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

Actors: Steve Whitmire, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz

Synopsis: What would life amongst the Muppets have been without their unofficial leader Kermit the Frog? That's the question posed by this made-for-TV confection, which not only spoofs the Yuletide classic It's a Wonderful Life, but also takes satirical aim at such pop cultural phenomena as Moulin Rouge and Fear Factor Read More

Curb Your Enthusiasm [TV Series]

Actors: Larry David, Cheryl Hines, Jeff Garlin, Mel Brooks, Richard Lewis

Synopsis: Seinfeld producer/creator Larry David has often claimed that the character of George Costanza, the abrasive, neurotic, spectacularly luckless Seinfeld supporting player so brilliantly played by Jason Alexander, was based on David himself. Small wonder, then, that most of the plotlines of the Read More

Screw Loose

Actors: Mel Brooks, Ezio Greggio, Julie Condra, Gianfranco Barra, Randi Ingerman

Synopsis: A man discovers honoring one of his father's last wishes isn't as easy as he hoped in this broad comedy. Middle-aged Bernardo Puccini (Ezio Greggio) helps to care for his elderly father in Milan. One day, Bernardo's dad, who is in poor health, makes a request - before he dies, he'd like to spend Read More

Mad About You: Uncle Phil Goes Back to High School

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: Mel Brooks is back as Paul's redoubtable Uncle Phil. As Paul (Paul Reiser) stands on the sidelines with mouth agape, Uncle Phil elects to go for his high school diploma -- some 63 years after dropping out. This plot development is almost as fascinating as the breast-transplant treatment undergone Read More

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies

Synopsis: In June 1998, the American Film Institute announced the top 100 films of the 20th century. The list was complied from a survey of 1,500 participants, including filmmakers, historians, critics, and other entertainment industry professionals. The AFI and CBS produced this multi-packet video feature Read More

Mad About You: The Penis

Synopsis: Mel Brooks returns as Paul's Uncle Phil, who has been on his deathbed for what seems to be years. Phil wants Paul (Paul Reiser) and Jamie (Helen Hunt) to name their new baby after him. But Paul is convinced that the little visitor will be a "she" rather than a "he." Imagine an episode of a 1960s Read More

Mad About You: Uncle Phil and the Coupons

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: Mel Brooks makes another unbearably funny appearance as Uncle Phil, here about to face trial for coupon fraud. Meanwhile, three-week-old Mabel is placed on a long waiting list for preschool, and Jamie (Helen Hunt) and Ira (John Pankow) have a strange adventure. Listen carefully for the Grand Read More

Mad About You: The Grant

Actors: Mel Brooks

Synopsis: Though told to give up coffee during her pregnancy, Jamie (Helen Hunt) must somehow stay awake while burning the midnight oil on Lance Brockwell's political campaign. Meanwhile, Paul tries to decide how best to spend a large financial grant. Coming to Paul's rescue (if not Jamie's) is his Read More

Dracula: Dead and Loving It

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Peter MacNicol, Steven Weber, Amy Yasbeck, Lysette Anthony

Synopsis: Mel Brooks does it again with this send-up of vampire films. That Leslie Nielson plays the great blood-sucking count gives viewers a good idea as to what they are in for. This Dracula takes himself very seriously despite the fact that he's a bit of a klutz with a tendency to slip in the bat guano Read More

The Silence of the Hams

Actors: Dom DeLuise, Ezio Greggio, Billy Zane, Joanna Pacula, Charlene Tilton, Martin Balsam

Synopsis: In the tradition of Mel Brooks, this Italian comedy offers an episodic parody of classic thrillers and horror movies. Film includes cameos from several stars including Mel Brooks, John Astin, Larry Storch, Phyllis Diller, John Carpenter, and John Landis. The story begins as director Ezio Greggio Read More

The Little Rascals

Actors: Travis Tedford, Bug Hall, Brittany Ashton Holmes, Kevin Jamal Woods, Zachary Mabry

Synopsis: Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and the other characters made famous in the Our Gang shorts of the 1920s and 1930s are brought back to life in this nostalgic children's comedy. Although the setting is the present day, the characters remain much the same, down to their old-fashioned clothing and their Read More

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees, Amy Yasbeck, Tracey Ullman, Dave Chappelle

Synopsis: Mel Brooks directed and co-wrote this satiric comedy which lampoons a number of cinematic treatments of the legend of Sherwood Forest, including Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and The Adventures of Robin Hood. Robin Hood (Cary Elwes) comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble Read More

Frasier: Miracle on Third or Fourth Street

Synopsis: In Frasier's first holiday episode, Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) makes plans to spend Christmas with his son Frederick (remember him from Cheers?). But when these plans fall through, a disappointed Frasier volunteers to fill in for sports-show host Bulldog at radio station KACL on Christmas Day. Read More

The Vagrant

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bill Paxton, Michael Ironside, Marshall Bell, Mitzi Kapture, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: When a successful businessman Graham Krakowski (Bill Paxton) buys a house, he has a hard time evicting the previous tenant--a dirty, homeless vagabond (Marshall Bell). As Graham tries stunt after stunt to rid himself of his unwanted guest, he begins to crack, while the bum figures out new and Read More

Life Stinks

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Mel Brooks, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Stuart Pankin, Howard Morris

Synopsis: If a comedy is to be made from the plight of the homeless, who have to scrape through their days returning deposit bottles and cleaning car windshields to get their daily bread as the rich get richer and more heartless, it may as well be Mel Brooks' Life Stinks. The trademark Brooks humor Read More

Look Who's Talking, Too

Actors: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, Elias Koteas, Twink Caplan, Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Mel Brooks

Synopsis: Amy Heckerling repeats the successful formula of Look Who's Talking in this sequel, with the addition of John Travolta singing "All Shook Up" to a group of nursery schoolers and Mel Brooks cast as the voice of a toilet. The film begins with James struggling to support his family. He stills wants Read More

They're Weird. They're Wild. They're...Comedy Videos

Spaceballs

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Songwriter

Actors: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga

Synopsis: A space bum helps rescue a princess from an evil overlord with the help of a benevolent elder in this Star Wars send-up written and directed by Mel Brooks. Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his half-man, half-dog co-pilot, Barf the Mawg (John Candy), are content to scour the galaxy living the easy Read More

84 Charing Cross Road

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Jean de Baer, Maurice Denham, Mercedes Ruehl

Synopsis: Helene Hanff's book 84 Charing Cross Road had previously been a TV program and a stage play before it was converted into this 1986 film. The scene is New York, 1949: Anne Bancroft plays a struggling writer and passionate bibliophile, who answers an advertisement from a rare-volumes bookshop at 84 Read More

Solarbabies

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Richard Jordan, Jami Gertz, Jason Patric, Lukas Haas, James LeGros, Adrian Pasdar

Synopsis: A futuristic dystopia is the setting for this tale about good versus evil and a magical space-sphere out to reestablish a civilized society. An orphanage in a bleak and deserted landscape imprisons a large group of youngsters who have divided into good and bad groups. One day, while competing at Read More

Comedy Music Videos

Steve Allen's Golden Age of Comedy

Synopsis: This video contains some of the most memorable moments from Steve Allen's long-running talk show. Featured guests include Mel Brooks, Jimmy Durante and Johnny Carson. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Doctor and the Devils

Crew: Producer

Actors: Timothy Dalton, Jonathan Pryce, Twiggy, Julian Sands, Sian Phillips, Stephen Rea

Synopsis: A movie version of the stage play The Doctor and the Devils, written in the 1950s by Welsh poet/playwright Dylan Thomas, had been planned and shelved by several filmmakers before producer Mel Brooks and director Freddie Francis finally brought the project to fruition in 1985. Essentially, the Read More

Mel Brooks: An Audience

Synopsis: This live appearance by Mel Brooks includes songs, skits and jokes. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

To Be or Not to Be

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Tim Matheson, Charles Durning, José Ferrer

Synopsis: Mel Brooks and his real-life wife Anne Bancroft play Frederick and Anna Bronski, musical comedy stars in 1939 Poland. The highlight of the Bronskis' act is Frederick's imitation of Adolf Hitler, but he is forced to eliminate this turn for fear of offending the Nazis. Meanwhile, Anna enters into a Read More

Bonjour Monsieur Lewis

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, John Landis

Synopsis: The genuine love felt by the people of France for American comedian Jerry Lewis has become something of a topic for incredulous humor in the United States over the years, but if there was any doubt as to whether the many jokes overstated the case, this exhaustive six-hour hagiography from director Read More

Frances

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Harris, Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard, Bart Burns, Jeffrey DeMunn

Synopsis: As played by Jessica Lange, Frances Farmer is a rebel from the word go, winning a high school essay award by writing a piece in defense of Communism. Determining to become an actress, Frances is equally determined not to play the Hollywood game: she refuses to acquiesce to idiotic publicity Read More

History of the World -- Part I

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: Mel Brooks produced, directed, wrote, and starred in this episodic comedy in the spirit of Monty Python and the 1957 studio travesty The Story of Mankind. The film is divided into five sequences that play like blue-toned Eddie Cantor vaudeville sketches -- "The Dawn of Man," "The Stone Age," The Read More

The Elephant Man

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller

Synopsis: John Hurt stars as John Merrick, the hideously deformed 19th century Londoner known as "The Elephant Man". Treated as a sideshow freak, Merrick is assumed to be retarded as well as misshapen because of his inability to speak coherently. In fact, he is highly intelligent and sensitive, a fact made Read More

The Muppet Movie

Actors: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Charles Durning, Dave Goelz

Synopsis: Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear, from of the large crew of loveably fuzzy characters created by puppetmaster Jim Henson, have embarked on a quest for stardom. They take a trip to Hollywood, riding in or on a wide variety of vehicles along the way. They begin their journey on a bicycle pedalled by Read More

High Anxiety

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Songwriter

Actors: Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Ron Carey

Synopsis: This is Mel Brooks' spoof of over ten Alfred Hitchcock classics, including Psycho, Vertigo, and The Birds (Brooks actually used the bird trainer from that classic suspense movie in making his film). Brooks plays Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke, a renowned Harvard psychiatrist with a concealed fear of Read More

Silent Movie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters, Sid Caesar

Synopsis: Silent Movie is just that: a totally nonverbal comedy, save for one single line. Director Mel Brooks stars as a once-famous comedy director, who with his faithful assistants Dom DeLuise and Marty Feldman return to Hollywood with plans for a comeback. Brooks wants to return to the good old days by Read More

When Things Were Rotten [TV Series]

Crew: Producer, Show Creator

Actors: Dick Gautier, Dick Van Patten, Bernie Kopell, Richard Dimitri, Henry Polic II, Misty Rowe

Synopsis: In the '90s and 2000s, Mel Brooks enjoyed tremendous success resurrecting old ideas in new venues -- just witness his hit stage musicals The Producers and Young Frankenstein. So it might intrigue casual fans to learn that his broad cinematic farce Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) also found its Read More

2000 Year Old Man

Synopsis: In 1961, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner cut a comedy record entitled {^The 2000 Year Old Man}. Largely ad-libbed, the routine consisted of an interview, conducted by Reiner, of the world's oldest living man, played by Brooks. Their freewheeling conversation covers such topics as the earliest known Read More

Free to Be... You and Me

Actors: Marlo Thomas

Synopsis: Marlo Thomas served as both producer and star for this landmark 1974 television special, which, through songs, stories, and comedy sketches, encourages children to accept and celebrate diversity in others, and embrace their own individuality. Guests stars include Mel Brooks, Alan Alda, Harry Read More

Blazing Saddles

Crew: Director, Screenwriter, Songwriter

Actors: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, David Huddleston, Mel Brooks, Alex Karras, Madeline Kahn

Synopsis: Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and co-star Gene Wilder have Read More

Young Frankenstein

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: Lending his burlesque touch to 1970s genre revision, Mel Brooks followed his hit "western" Blazing Saddles with this parody of 1930s Universal horror movies. Determined to live down his family's reputation, Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (co-screenwriter Gene Wilder) insists on pronouncing his name Read More

Shinbone Alley

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Eddie Bracken, Carol Channing

Synopsis: Based on a Broadway musical by Mel Brooks and Joe Darion, the animated feature Shinbone Alley is an adaptation of the Don Marquis stories. The film is about a love-struck cockroach named Archy (voiced by Eddie Bracken) and the object of his affections, a carefree cat named Mehitabel (Carol Channing Read More

The Twelve Chairs

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Andréas Voutsinas, Vlada Petric

Synopsis: One of several film versions of the 1928 Russian novel The Twelve Chairs (one of the better-known adaptations was the 1945 Fred Allen vehicle It's in the Bag), Mel Brooks' movie is set in the years following the Bolshevik revolution. Onetime aristocrat Vorobyaninov (Ron Moody), now reduced to a Read More

The Producers

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Estelle Winwood, Renée Taylor

Synopsis: Theatrical producer Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) was once the toast of Broadway. Now he lives in his seedy office, cadging cash contributions from wealthy old ladies in exchange for sexual favors. Even worse, he's reduced to wearing a cardboard belt. Max's new accountant, Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder) Read More

Get Smart [TV Series]

Crew: Show Creator

Actors: Don Adams, Barbara Feldon

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