Mel Brooks
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Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show ''Your Show of Shows'' from 1950 to 1954. With Carl Reiner, he created the comedy sketch ''The 2000 Year Old Man'', and together, they released several comedy albums, starting with ''2000 Year Old Man'' in 1960. With Buck Henry, he created the hit television comedy series ''Get Smart'', which starred Don Adams and ran from 1965 to 1970.
Brooks won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for ''The Producers'' (1967). He then rose to prominence becoming one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s with ''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), ''Robin Hood: Men in Tights'' (1993), and ''Dracula: Dead and Loving It'' (1995). A musical adaptation of his first film, ''The Producers'', ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007 and earned Brooks three Tony Awards. The project was remade into a musical film in 2005. He wrote and produced the Hulu series ''History of the World, Part II'' (2023).
Brooks was married to actress Anne Bancroft from 1964 until her death in 2005. Their son Max Brooks is an actor and author, known for his novel ''World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War'' (2006). In 2021, Mel Brooks published his memoir titled ''All About Me!''. Three of his films are included on the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy films of the past 100 years (1900–2000), all of which were ranked in the top 15: ''Blazing Saddles'' at number 6, ''The Producers'' at number 11, and ''Young Frankenstein'' at number 13. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published 1975
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Published 1997
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Published 2007
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