Melvyn Brooks is an American film director, producer and actor. Mel was born on June 28, 1926 in the United States, New York, in a family of immigrants from Poland. The boy spent all his childhood in cinemas of his native city, especially he was attracted by comedies with Charlie Chaplin.
After school, the future film director went to serve in the army and then worked as a janitor in a casino until one day he was asked to go on stage and perform in front of a live audience instead of a sick comedian.
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Melvyn Brooks is an American film director, producer and actor.
Mel was born on June 28, 1926 in the United States, New York, in a family of immigrants from Poland. The boy spent all his childhood in cinemas of his native city, especially he was attracted by comedies with Charlie Chaplin.
After school, the future film director went to serve in the army and then worked as a janitor in a casino until one day he was asked to go on stage and perform in front of a live audience instead of a sick comedian. Brooks instantly conquered the audience, and after that began his career as an actor.
A little later, he began working on television, staged his comedy show, wrote scripts for the program “The Muppet Show” and even voiced one of the puppets in the television series “Strains of the Gyrus”.
In 1968, Mel Brooks was working on a film.
"Producers" It earned him his first Oscar for Best Screenplay. This film was later included in the National Film Registry.
In 1970, he worked on the film Twelve Chairs, based on the work of Evgeny Petrov and Ilya Ilf, but the tape was unsuccessful, and Brooks decided not to engage in the film adaptation of the classics.
The popularity of a talented film director brought the film
"Burning Saddles" In 1974 he played the role of Governor and Chief of the Indians. In this picture, he fully revealed himself as a talented parodyist and entered the history of cinema.
In 1975, another parody film called
Young Frankenstein on a joint script with D. Wilder, who strengthened the reputation of the comedian behind Mel.
In 1976, Mel Brooks worked on the experimental film “The Silent Movie”, then on a parody of Hitchcock’s thrillers “Fear of Heights”. Later he was engaged in the shooting of the film “Space Eggs”.
Among Brooks’s works is a non-parody film, Life Shit, which he worked on in 1991. He is also the producer of such famous films as The Fly, The Fly 2 and To Be or Not to Be.