Mel Brooks turns 81 today

Today, June 28^th is award winning director, writer, comedian, actor and producer Mel Brooks’ birthday.  His movie Blazing Saddles is still the one I call my favorite movie of all time.

As 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)


• 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)

Theater

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  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)


• Young Frankenstein (2007) (composer, lyricist, co-book-writer, producer)


• 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)


• 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)

Other works

• Your Show of Shows (TV) (1950-1954) (writer)


• The Critic (short film) (1963) (created and narrated)


• 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?!")


• 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 Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Season 2 (voice of Santa Claus)


• Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (2003-present) (voice of Wiley the Sheep)


• Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 4 (actor)


• Robots (2005) (voice of Bigweld)


• The Producers (2005) (writer, producer)


• Spaceballs: The TV Series (2007) (writer, producer, voice)

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