Mel Brooks
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The ThumbScore for Mel Brooks (78.7%) is the average audience approval rating across 17 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Mel's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Audiences rate Mel Brooks’s films higher than 89% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
Free to watch now (26 Oct): Spaceballs (YouTube, Roku Channel, Prime Video (free), Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome) · Dracula: Dead and Loving It (YouTube, Hoopla, Plex) · The Producers (Plex, Tubi, Kanopy) · Life Stinks (Roku Channel, Fandango at Home, Tubi) · Look Who's Talking Too (Tubi).
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Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and songwriter. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 21 entertainers to win the EGOT (which includes an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony). He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and the Honorary Academy Award in 2024. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows(1950–1954). There, he worked with Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart, and Carl Reiner.
With Reiner, he co-created the comedy sketch The 2000 Year Old Man. He released several comedy albums, starting with 2000 Year Old Man in 1960. Brooks received five nominations for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, finally winning in 1999. With Buck Henry, he created the hit satirical spy comedy series Get Smart (1965–1970) on NBC television. Brooks won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Producers (1967). He then rose to prominence by directing a string of successful comedy films such as The Twelve Chairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), and High Anxiety (1977). Later, Brooks made History of the World, Part I (1981), Spaceballs (1987), Life Stinks (1991), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995).
Born 1926-06-28 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.
On ThumbScore, Mel Brooks appears in 17 films with an average audience score of 78.7%, most frequently in the Comedy genre.
Sources: TMDB
