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Mel Brooks: Summary

Recent Role:: President Skroob/Yogurt on Spaceballs: The Animated Series

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Birthplace:: Brooklyn, New York, USA

Birth Name:: Melvin Kaminsky

Mel Brooks is the grand master of movie satire and one of Hollywood's most successful and autonomous filmmakers. He was born Melvin Kaminsky to a Russian Jewish family on June 28, 1926, in Brooklyn. In 1964 he married actress Anne Bancroft. Brooks' career began in the forties in the military. He was serving as a combat engineer in the US Army, and took part in the deactivation of land...

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Spaceballs cartoon coming to the tube
Animated TV version of Mel Brooks' 1987 comedy headed to this galaxy.
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Mel has four children, three from his first marriage and one from his marriage to Anne Bancroft.(edit)
Mel started out in show business as a stand-up comic.(edit)
Mel and Anne Bancroft married at New York City Hall, where a passer-by served as their witness.(edit)
Mel's wife, Anne Bancroft, died in 2005. They had been married since 1964.(edit)
Mel frequently uses in his movies the line: "we have much to do and less time to do it in".(edit)

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Mel Brooks is one of the funnyest person on the planet.He is the producer,writer,actor of over 30 films,i wish him good health and a long life. ...Continue »
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Best COmedy derictor. In history. ...Continue »
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