Mel Brooks

Melvin James "Mel" Brooks (né Kaminsky) is an American actor, comedian, songwriter, director, and screenwriter, who is best known for creating broad film farces and comic parodies. He directed (a parody of the Frankenstein movies) and (a parody of Star Wars), and was the writer of the early variety show . He also created, with , the NBC/CBS hit comedy series (1965–1970). Additionally, he is well-known for voicing Bigweld in Blue Sky's 2005 animated film , Albert Einstein in ' 2014 film , and Vlad Dracula in ' .
For Disney, he voiced Grandpa Mel in Special Agent Oso and Melephant Brooks in Disney/Pixar's 2019 film Toy Story 4 and the Disney+ short series Forky Asks a Question (both characters being parodies of himself). He also played the film director in Mickey's Audition, as well as appeared as himself in Mickey's 50. Additionally, he developed a cancelled horror-comedy attraction for Disney's Hollywood Studios entitled "Hotel Mel", which ended up becoming the inspiration for The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. He also appeared as himself in both the Hulu series History of the World, Part II and Only Murders in the Building.
His song "The French Mistake" was featured in the 2004 Disney animated feature film Home on the Range.
Brooks was born on a tenement kitchen table in Brownsville, Brooklyn, to Kate (née Brookman) and Max Kaminsky, and grew up in Williamsburg. His father's family were German Jews from Danzig (Gdańsk, Poland); his mother was from Kyiv, in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). He had three older brothers: Irving, Lenny, and Bernie. His father died of of the kidney at 34 when Brooks was two years old. He has said of his father's death, "There's an outrage there. I may be angry at God, or at the world, for that. And I'm sure a lot of my comedy is based on anger and hostility. Growing up in Williamsburg, I learned to clothe it in comedy to spare myself problems — like a punch in the face."
==Roles==
Grandpa Mel.jpg|Grandpa Mel(Special Agent Oso)
Profile-MelephantBrooks.jpg|Melephant Brooks(Toy Story 4 and Forky Asks a Question)
Mel Brooks (OMitB).jpg|Himself(Only Murders in the Building)
==Gallery==
BrooksBancroft.png|Mel Brooks eating a cheesecake with his second wife, Anne Bancroft, in Mickey's 50.
MelBrooksApr10.jpg|Mel Books at his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in April 2010.
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