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( May 2019)īrooks was drafted into the United States Army in 1944. īrooks graduated from Eastern District High School in January 1944 and intended to follow his older brother and enroll in Brooklyn College to study psychology. During his teens, he legally changed his name to Mel Brooks, influenced by his mother's maiden name Brookman, after being confused with trumpeter Max Kaminsky. During his time as a drummer, he was given his first opportunity as a comedian at the age of 16, filling in for an ill MC.

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He was taught by Buddy Rich (who had also grown up in Williamsburg) how to play the drums, and started to earn money as a musician when he was 14.

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In a Playboy interview, he explained that one day he stood at the edge of a diving board wearing a large overcoat and two suitcases full of rocks who then announced: "Business is terrible! I can't go on!" before jumping, fully clothed into the pool. Brooks kept his guests amused with his crazy antics. When Brooks was 14 he gained employment as a pool tummler. After the show, he told his uncle that he was not going to work in the garment district like everyone else but was absolutely going into show business.

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At age 9, he went to a Broadway show with his uncle Joe-a taxi driver who drove the Broadway doormen back to Brooklyn for free and was given the tickets in gratitude-and saw Anything Goes with William Gaxton, Ethel Merman and Victor Moore at the Alvin Theater. Growing up in Williamsburg, I learned to clothe it in comedy to spare myself problems-like a punch in the face." īrooks was a small, sickly boy who often was bullied and teased by his classmates because of his size. And I'm sure a lot of my comedy is based on anger and hostility. I may be angry at God, or at the world, for that. He has said of his father's death, "There's an outrage there. His father died of kidney disease at 34 when Brooks was 2 years old. He had three older brothers: Irving, Lenny, and Bernie. His father's family were Jewish people from Gdańsk, Poland his mother's family were Jews from Kyiv, in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine).

īrooks was married to actress Anne Bancroft from 1964 until her death in 2005. Three of his films ranked in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy films of the past 100 years (1900–2000), all of which ranked in the top 15 of the list: Blazing Saddles at number 6, The Producers at number 11, and Young Frankenstein at number 13. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the 41st AFI Life Achievement Award in June 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in March 2015, a National Medal of Arts in September 2016, and a BAFTA Fellowship in February 2017. In 2001, having previously won an Emmy, a Grammy and an Oscar, he joined a small list of EGOT winners with his Tony Award wins for The Producers. A musical adaptation of his first film, The Producers, ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007 and was remade into a musical film in 2005.

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His best-known films include The Producers (1967), The Twelve Chairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), Spaceballs (1987), and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993).

In middle age, Brooks became one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s, with many of his films being among the top 10 moneymakers of the year they were released.

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He wrote, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series Get Smart, which ran from 1965 to 1970. With Carl Reiner, he created the comic character The 2000 Year Old Man. He began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows (1950–1954) alongside Woody Allen, Neil Simon and Larry Gelbart. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a creator of broad farces and parodies widely considered to be among the best film comedies ever made. Mel Brooks (born Melvin James Kaminsky June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker and composer. 1104th Engineer Battalion, 78th Infantry Division, XIX Corps Engineers