Mel Brooks | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie (original) (raw)
Active - 1954 - Present | Birth - Jun 28, 1926 | |
Mel Brooks is an American director, writer, actor, comedian, producer and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comedic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows. Together with Carl Reiner, he created the comic character The 2000 Year Old Man. He wrote, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series Get Smart, which ran from 1965 to 1970.
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Melvin Brooks, Melvin James Kaminsky
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