Mel Brooks

Biografie

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. He was a writer for, Your Show of Shows (1950) Caesar's Hour (1954) and wrote the Broadway show Shinbone Alley. He also worked in the creation of The 2000 Year Old Man (1975) and Agent Smart (1965) before embarking on a highly successful film career in writing, acting, producing and directing. Brooks is famous for the spoofs of different film genres that he made such as Le shérif est en prison (1974), La folle histoire du monde (1981), La dernière folie de Mel Brooks (1976), Frankenstein junior (1974), Bláznivý príbeh Robina Hooda (1993), Le grand frisson (1977), Drákuloviny (1995), and La folle histoire de l'espace (1987).