Mel Brooks (born 1926 in Brooklyn) began as a writer for Sid Caesar's television shows and won an Oscar for the screenplay of his first film, The Producers (1967). In 1974 he made two of the best-loved American comedies, the Western parody Blazing Saddles and the horror spoof Young Frankenstein, the latter written with Gene Wilder and shot in black and white with the original laboratory equipment. His films are loud, rude, fond parodies of genres, and Spaceballs (1987) did the same to science fiction.
Filmography
- The Producers (1967)
- Blazing Saddles (1974)
- Young Frankenstein (1974)
- Spaceballs (1987)