Some of Mel Brooks’ career highlights (so far!)
Published May 15, 2013
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)