Some of Mel Brooks’ career highlights (so far!)

Writer/director

• The Producers (1968) (Academy Award, best original screenplay) (also voice-over)

• The Twelve Chairs (1970) (also actor)

• Blazing Saddles (1974) (also actor)

• Young Frankenstein (1974)

• Silent Movie (1976) (also actor)

• High Anxiety (1977) (also actor/producer)

• History of the World, Part I (1981) (also actor/producer)

• Spaceballs (1987) (also actor/producer)

• Life Stinks (1991) (also actor/producer)

• Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) (also actor/producer)

• Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) (also actor/producer)

Theater

• Leonard Sillman’s New Faces of 1952 (1952) (sketches for a revue)

• Shinbone Alley (1957) (co-book-writer)

• All-American (1962) (book-writer)

• The Producers (2001) (composer, lyricist, co-book-writer, producer; Tony Award for Best Musical, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, Tony Award for Best Original Score, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical)

• Young Frankenstein (2007) (composer, lyricist, co-book-writer, producer)

Other credits

• Your Show of Shows (TV) (1950–1954) (writer)

• New Faces of 1952 (Broadway) (1952) (writer) and “New Faces”, the 1954 film version (writer)

• The Critic (created and narrated, won Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film) (1963)

• Get Smart (TV) (1965–1970) (co-creator, writer)

• The Electric Company (TV) (1971–1977) (voice of recurring little cartoon man who asks: “Who’s the dummy writing this show?!”)

• Hollywood Squares (1972) (Guest star)

• When Things Were Rotten (1975) (co-created, writer)

• The Muppet Movie (1979) (Special Guest Star-Mad Scientist Professor Max Krassman)

• The Elephant Man (1980) (uncredited executive producer)

• To Be or Not to Be (1983) (actor, producer)

• The Tracey Ullman Show (1990) (actor-Buzz Schlanger)

• Look Who’s Talking Too (1990) (voice of Mr. Toilet Man)

• Frasier (1993) (voice of Tom)

• The Little Rascals (1994) (actor-Mr. Welling)

• The Simpsons (1995, “Homer vs. Patty and Selma”) (voice-himself)

• Caesar’s Writers (1996) (himself, panel member)

• Mad About You (TV) (1996–1999) (actor-Uncle Phil)

• It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002) (voice of Joe Snow)

• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Season 2 (2003) (voice of Santa Claus)

• Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (2003–2007) (voice of Wiley the Sheep)

• Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 4 (2004) (actor)

• Robots (2005) (voice of Bigweld)

• The Producers (2005) (writer, producer, cameo as himself)

• Spaceballs: The Animated Series (2008) (writer, producer, voice)

• The 2000 Year Old Man: The Complete History (2009) DVD

• Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again (2011) (himself, television special)

• David Susskind: How to be a Jewish Son (2012) (himself, television show guest)

• Mel Brooks Strikes Back (2012) (himself, television special)