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Мэл Брукс (Mel Brooks) - 28.06.1926, Бруклин, Нью Йорк,
США.
Актер, режиссер, сценарист, продюсер, автор и исполнитель песен.
ФИЛЬМОГРАФИЯ (жирным выделены фильмы, имеющиеся у нас
в наличии):
1995 ДРАКУЛА - МЕРТВЫЙ И ДОВОЛЬНЫЙ ЭТИМ /DRACULA: DEAD AND
LOVING IT/ - продюсер, режиссер, сценарист, актер
1994 МАЛЕНЬКИЕ НЕГОДЯИ /THE LITTLE RASCALS/ - актер
1994 МОЛЧАНИЕ ВЕТЧИНЫ /SILENCE OF THE HAMS/ - актер
1993 РОБИН ГУД - ЧЕЛОВЕК В ТРИКО /ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS/
- продюсер, сценарист, музыка, стихи
1992 БРОДЯГА /THE VAGRANT/ - исполнительный продюсер
1991 ЖИЗНЬ - ДЕРЬМО /LIFE STINKS/ - сценарист, автор истории
1990 ПОСМОТРИТЕ КТО ГОВОРИТ /LOOK WHO'S TALKING TOO/ - актер
1987 КОСМИЧЕСКИЕ ЯЙЦА (КОСМОБОЛЬЦЫ) /SPACEBALLS/ - продюсер,
режиссер, певец, актер
1987 ЧЕРРИНГ КРОСС РОУД 84 /84 CHARING CROSS ROAD/ - исполнительный
продюсер
1986 СОЛНЕЧНЫЕ КРОШКИ /SOLARBABIES/ - исполнительный продюсер
1986 МУХА /THE FLY/ - исполнительный продюсер
1985 ДОКТОР И ДЬЯВОЛ /THE DOCTOR AND THE DEVILS/ - исполнительный
продюсер
1984 ЛЮДИ ВОСХОДЯЩЕГО СОЛНЦА /SUNSET PEOPLE/ - актер
1983 БЫТЬ ИЛИ НЕ БЫТЬ /TO BE OR NOT TO BE/ - продюсер, певец,
актер
1982 ФРЕНСИС /FRANCES/ - продюсер
1981 ВСЕМИРНАЯ ИСТОРИЯ, ЧАСТЬ 1 /HISTORY OF THE WORLD - PART 1/
- продюсер, режиссер, певец, актер
1980 ЧЕЛОВЕК-СЛОН /THE ELEPHANT MAN/ (режиссер Дэвид Линч) - продюсер
1979 ФИЛЬМ МАППЕТОВ /THE MUPPET MOVIE/ - актер
1977 СТРАХ ВЫСОТЫ /HIGH ANXIETY/ - продюсер, режиссер, певец,
актер
1976 НЕМОЕ КИНО /SILENT MOVIE/ - режиссер, сценарист, актер
1974 МОЛОДОЙ ФРАНКЕНШТЕЙН /YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN/ - режиссер, сценарист
1974 СВЕРКАЮЩИЕ СЕДЛА /BLAZING SADDLES/ - режиссер, актер, певец
1971 КОСТЯНАЯ АЛЛЕЯ /SHINBONE ALLEY/ - из новеллы
1970 ДВЕНАДЦАТЬ СТУЛЬЕВ /THE TWELVE CHAIRS/ - режиссер, сценарист,
актер
1968 ПРОДЮСЕРЫ (ВЕСНА ДЛЯ ГИТЛЕРА) /THE PRODUCERS/ - режиссер,
сценарист
1954 НОВЫЕ ЛИЦА /NEW FACES/ - сценарист
Фильмы Мэла Брукса, которые можно заказать
в нашей Видеолавке прямо здесь:
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и расходники включены).
Mel Brooks. Cinemania-97:
Occupation: Director
Also: Actor, screenwriter, producer
Born As: Melvin Kaminsky
Born: June 28, 1926, Brooklyn, NY
Former stand-up comic who, together with Woody Allen and Bill
Cosby, set the stage in the 1960s for the entire post-vaudeville,
TV generation of comedians. While Allen was personal and self-deprecating
and Cosby eschewed shtick in favor of witty commentary, Brooks
— often working with Carl Reiner — embraced the craziness at the
root of all ethnic vaudeville and reshaped it for decades to come.
He was a saner Lenny Bruce, bringing high anxiety down to earth,
where we could deal with it.
Brooks graduated from TV writer ("Your Show of Shows")
to successful series creator ("Get Smart") before breaking
into features with THE PRODUCERS (1968), which set the zany, comedic
tone of all his subsequent films. His two greatest successes,
BLAZING SADDLES (1974) and YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974), were broad
send-ups of the western and horror genres, respectively. As with
all great comic filmmakers—Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, Tati, Allen—the
persona surpasses the mise-en-scиne, no matter how inventive it
is.
His production company, BrooksFilms, Ltd. formed in 1979, has
been responsible for such diverse works as David Lynch's THE ELEPHANT
MAN (1980), Graeme Clifford's FRANCES (1982) and David Cronenberg's
THE FLY (1986). Brooks has been married since 1964 to actress
Anne Bancroft, opposite whom he starred in TO BE OR NOT TO BE
(1983).
1954 NEW FACES - screenwriter
1968 THE PRODUCERS - director, screenwriter
1970 THE TWELVE CHAIRS - director, screenwriter, performer
1971 SHINBONE ALLEY - from novel
1974 BLAZING SADDLES - director, song, performer
1974 YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN - director, screenwriter
1976 SILENT MOVIE - director, screenwriter, performer
1977 HIGH ANXIETY - producer, director, songs, performer
1979 THE MUPPET MOVIE - performer
1980 THE ELEPHANT MAN - producer
1981 HISTORY OF THE WORLD—PART 1 - producer, director, songs,
performer
1982 FRANCES - producer
1983 TO BE OR NOT TO BE - producer, songs, performer
1984 SUNSET PEOPLE - performer
1985 THE DOCTOR AND THE DEVILS - executive producer
1986 THE FLY - executive producer
1986 SOLARBABIES - executive producer
1987 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD - executive producer
1987 SPACEBALLS - producer, director, song, performer
1990 LOOK WHO'S TALKING TOO - performer
1991 LIFE STINKS - screenplay, story
1992 THE VAGRANT - executive producer
1993 ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS - producer, screenplay, music,
lyrics
1994 THE LITTLE RASCALS - performer
1994 SILENCE OF THE HAMS - performer
1995 DRACULA: DEAD AND LOVING IT - producer, director, screenwriter,
performer
Mel Brooks. IMDB (06.apr.2004):
Date of birth (location): 28 June 1926, Brooklyn, New
York, USA
Birth name: Melvin Kaminsky
Height: 5'4" (1.63 m)
Trade mark:
- Frequently casts himself, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, Rudy De
Luca, and Madeline Kahn.
- Almost always uses music by John Morris.
- Frequently uses the line: "we have much to do and less
time to do it in"
- His films usually contain many Jewish references and jokes.
- Always features one scene in his movies in which the main character
is seated and staring blankly, wondering what went wrong, while
friends console him.
- The main bad guy in his films is usually someone wearing a moustache
or a beard.
- Always features a scene where one character is explaining a
plan to another, and the latter character repeats everything the
former says, including something outrageous. After realizing this,
the latter exclaims "what?"
- Lead character in his films is always a male.
- Known for parodying several films.
- Constantly makes fun of Nazis.
- His films often contain references to the film's sequel, which
never come to pass. Good examples of this are History of the World
Part I, Spaceballs, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
- Is known for including in his movies a "walk this way"
gag; one character says "Walk this way!" (as in "Follow
me!"), and another character(s) copies the way he/she is
walking. Examples include History of the World Part I, Young Frankenstein,
and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
- Frequently has a bust of his head on the poster of video/DVD
cover of his movies.
- All of his movies feature a wacky song-and-dance number.
Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
Comedy writer-director whose satiric touch and farcical stylings
are influenced both by vaudeville and Borscht Belt shtick. Brooks
started his career as a stand-up comic in the 1940s, heavily influenced
by Harry Ritz of The Ritz Brothers. While working the Catskills,
he met Sid Caesar, who later hired him as one of the writers for
his fledgling TV series. "Your Show of Shows" and its
follow-up, "Caesar's Hour," boasted such other writers
as Woody Allen, Neil Simon, and costar Carl Reiner.
After years of writing sketches for TV and Broadway revues
(one of which, New Faces was filmed in 1954), Brooks made his
first mark on film by creating, with Ernie Pintoff, a hilarious
Oscar-winning animated short, The Critic (1963). He scored a hit
on TV by cocreating "Get Smart" (1965-69), and this
won him the backing, from Joseph E. Levine, for his first feature
film, The Producers (1968), which he wrote and directed. Dismissed
by some as "too Jewish," disliked by others as "too
manic," it nonetheless became a success, and won Brooks an
Oscar for Best Screenplay. He followed it with another independently
made feature, The Twelve Chairs (1970), in which he also costarred.
As The Producers was inspired by old show-biz jokes and lore about
making money on a flop show, this was based on a famous Russian
folk tale that had been filmed several times before. Both were
clearly "personal" projects that bore Brooks' unmistakable
stamp.
Warner Bros. bankrolled his next film, and while the fears
of "inside" material, and too-Jewish humor remained,
the cowboy-movie spoof Blazing Saddles (1973) pulverized audiences,
and pointed Brooks in a new direction: parody. It also established
his "stock company" of actors, and had him working for
the first time with cowriters. (Richard Pryor was one of the screenwriters
of Blazing Saddles Gene Wilder cowrote Brooks' next great success,
Young Frankenstein (1974), a hilarious horror spoof. Future filmmaker
Barry Levinson joined his writing team for subsequent features.
But Brooks' efforts became more scattershot, and predictable,
in Silent Movie (1976), the Hitchcock parody High Anxiety (1977),
the historical epic sendup History of the World-Part I (1981)
and the space-opera spoof Spaceballs (1987). Brooks also moved
in front of the camera; content to play supporting or cameo roles
at first, he took the leads in Silent Movie, High Anxiety and
History of the World-Part I Manic and irrepressible, he carried
the films on his hunched shoulders, slam- ming over corny jokes,
puerile double entendres, and silly sight-gags with gusto. He
and wife Anne Bancroft even took the Jack Benny and Carole Lombard
parts in a middling remake of Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1983).
During the 1980s his production company Brooksfilm produced
some uncharacteristically serious films, including David Lynch's
first commercial feature The Elephant Man 1980), David Cronenberg's
first Hollywood shotThe Fly 1986), The Doctor and the Devils (1985),
84 Charing Cross Road (1987, a vehicle for Bancroft), and Solarbabies
(1986), among others. As an actor, Brooks has appeared in The
Muppet Movie (1979), and Sunset People (1984), and lent his voice
to Look Who's Talking Too (1990).
After a four-year hiatus, Brooks returned to movies with Life
Stinks (1991), in which he starred as a tycoon who spent a month
living with the homeless in order to win a bet. The very subject
matter of his lackluster comedy made audiences uneasy. Brooks
learned his lesson, and returned to parody for his next film,
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993).
Trivia
- Served as a corporal in the US army in North Africa during World
War II.
- Part of his duties in WWII was defusing landmines in areas before
the infantry moved in.
- His stage name is an adaptation of his mother's maiden name,
Brookman.
- His film Producers, The (1968) was the inspiration for the title
of U2's album "Achtung Baby".
- He produced and wrote the music, lyrics, and book for the Broadway
musical version of "The Producers" (2001).
- One of the few people to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and
a Tony.
- Son Max (with Bancroft) is a screenwriter.
- Son Eddie manages a band called Early Edison.
- Named one of E!'s "top 20 entertainers of 2001."
- Calls wife Anne Bancroft his "Obi-Wan Kenobi" since
she encouraged him to turn his movie Producers, The (1968) into
a Broadway musical.
- Named one of People Magazine's '25 Most Intriguing People of
2001'.
- According to his 1975 Playboy interview, Mel's favorite candy
is Raisinets.
- At the opening of the Brodway version of "The Producers",
he was asked by a reporter if he was nervious about the play's
reception, since it cost $40 million to produce. Brooks joked,
"If it flops, I'll take the other sixty million and fly to
Rio." He didn't have to worry, since the play was both a
critical and financial success.
- He and Anne Bancroft met on the set of a TV talk show, and Mel
later paid a woman who worked on the show to tell him which restaurant
Bancroft was going to eat at that night so he could "accidentally"
bump into her again and strike up a conversation.
- He and Bancroft married at New York City Hall, where a passer-by
served as their witness.
- Children from his first marriage: Stefanie, Nicky, and Eddie.
- In 1966 he was about to co-star in a movie called "Easy
Come, Easy Go" with Jan Berry and Dean Torrence in the leading
roles. What would have been his on-screen debut, was cancelled
due to a car wreck during shooting, in which Berry suffered a
severe brain damage and paralysis. On the casting list was also
British comedy star Terry-Thomas.
- Won 3 Tonys in 2001 for "The Producers" - Best Musical,
Best Book of a Musical, and Best Musical Score.
- Son with 'Anne Bancroft' : Max Brooks, born 1972.
- Performed a rap song for the soundtrack of History of the World:
Part I (1981) called "It's Good To Be The King". It
was a suprisingly successful hip-hop/dance hit in 1981. He followed
it up with "Hitler Rap" for To Be or Not to Be (1983).
The song was not as successful. But the lyric "Don't be stupid,
be a smarty/Come and join the Nazi Party" was originally
used in the original movie version of "The Producers,"
then later reused in Brooks' Broadway version of "The Producers".
- The 1944 edition of the Eastern District High School (Brooklyn,
N.Y.) yearbook featured the future Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky)
stating that his goal was to become President of the United States;
forty-three years later, in 1987, his ambition was to be fulfilled,
if only in fiction and in part--in the movie "Spaceballs",
he portrayed Spaceball leader "President Skroob".
- His favorite song is "Yankee Doodle Dandy" by George
M. Cohan.
- Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy", by Ronald L.
Smith, pg. 63-66. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
Personal quotes
- "Why should I indulge myself and do a David Lean-ish kind
of film? I could do my little Jewish 'Brief Encounter' and disguise
it - shorten the noses. But it wouldn't be as much fun as delivering
my dish of insanity."
- "I cut my finger. That's tragedy. A man walks into an open
sewer and dies. That's comedy."
- "My movies rise below vulgarity."
- "Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs
together."
- "Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would
say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short
genius."
- "I'm the only Jew who ever made a buck off a 'Hitler'!"
FILMOGRAPHY
Actor
2005 Robots (filming) (voice) .... Big Weld
2003 Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - Shining Stars (V)
2003 "Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks" TV Series
.... Wiley the Sheep
2002 It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (TV) (voice) ....
Joe Snow
2000 Sex, logner & videovald (V) .... Stressed old man
1999 Svitati .... Jake Gordon
... aka Screwloose (1999) (USA)
1998 Prince of Egypt, The (uncredited) (voice) .... Additional
Voices
1995 Dracula: Dead and Loving It .... Dr. Abraham Van Helsing
... aka Dracula mort et heureux de l'etre (1996) (France)
1994 Little Rascals, The .... Mr. Welling
1994 Silenzio dei prosciutti, Il (uncredited) .... Guest checking
out
... aka Silence of the Hams, The (1995) (USA)
1993 Robin Hood: Men in Tights .... Rabbi Tuckman
... aka Sacre Robin des bois (1993) (France)
1991 Life Stinks .... Goddard 'Pepto' Bolt
... aka Life Sucks (1991) (USA: alternative title)
1990 Look Who's Talking Too (voice) .... Mr. Toilet Man
1987 Spaceballs .... Spaceball President Skroob/Yogurt
1983 To Be or Not to Be .... Dr. Frederick Bronski
1982 2000 Year Old Man, The (TV) (voice) .... 2000 Year Old Man
1981 History of the World: Part I .... Moses/Comicus/Torquemada/Jacques/Louis
XVI
... aka Mel Brooks' History of the World: Part 1 (1981) (USA:
complete title)
1979 Muppet Movie, The .... Professor Max Krassman
1979 Muppets Go Hollywood, The (TV)
1978 High Anxiety .... Dr. Richard Harpo Thorndyke
1976 Silent Movie .... Mel Funn
1974 Young Frankenstein (uncredited) (voice) .... Hurt Cat
1974 Free to Be... You & Me (TV) (voice) .... Baby boy
1974 Blazing Saddles .... Gov. William J. LePetomaine/Indian chief/World
War I aviator in badmen lineup)
1971 "Electric Company, The" TV Series .... Voice
1970 Annie, the Women in the Life of a Man (TV)
1970 Twelve Chairs, The .... Tikon
1968 Producers, The (uncredited) (voice) .... Singer in 'Springtime
for Hitler'
1963 Critic, The (voice) .... Old Man from Russia
Producer
2005 Producers, The (announced) (producer)
1995 Dracula: Dead and Loving It () (producer)
... aka Dracula mort et heureux de l'etre (1996) (France)
1993 Robin Hood: Men in Tights (producer)
... aka Sacre Robin des bois (1993) (France)
1992 Vagrant, The (executive producer)
1991 Life Stinks (producer)
... aka Life Sucks (1991) (USA: alternative title)
1989 "Nutt House, The" TV Series (producer)
1987 Spaceballs (producer)
1987 84 Charing Cross Road (executive producer)
1986 Solarbabies (executive producer)
... aka Solar Warriors (1986)
1985 Doctor and the Devils, The (executive producer)
1983 To Be or Not to Be (producer)
1982 Frances (executive producer) (uncredited)
1981 History of the World: Part I (producer)
... aka Mel Brooks' History of the World: Part 1 (1981) (USA:
complete title)
1980 Elephant Man, The (executive producer) (uncredited)
1978 High Anxiety (producer)
1975 "When Things Were Rotten" TV Series (producer)
Director
1995 Dracula: Dead and Loving It
... aka Dracula mort et heureux de l'etre (1996) (France)
1993 Robin Hood: Men in Tights
... aka Sacre Robin des bois (1993) (France)
1991 Life Stinks
... aka Life Sucks (1991) (USA: alternative title)
1987 Spaceballs
1983 Audience with Mel Brooks, An (TV)
1981 History of the World: Part I
... aka Mel Brooks' History of the World: Part 1 (1981) (USA:
complete title)
1978 High Anxiety
1976 Silent Movie
1974 Young Frankenstein
1974 Blazing Saddles
1970 Twelve Chairs, The
1968 Producers, The
Writer
2005 Producers, The (announced) (play) (screenplay)
1995 "Get Smart" TV Series (characters)
1995 Dracula: Dead and Loving It (screenplay)
... aka Dracula mort et heureux de l'etre (1996) (France)
1993 Robin Hood: Men in Tights (screenplay)
... aka Sacre Robin des bois (1993) (France)
1991 Life Stinks (screenplay) (story)
... aka Life Sucks (1991) (USA: alternative title)
1987 Spaceballs
1982 2000 Year Old Man, The (TV)
1981 History of the World: Part I
... aka Mel Brooks' History of the World: Part 1 (1981) (USA:
complete title)
1980 Nude Bomb, The (characters)
... aka Maxwell Smart and the Nude Bomb (1980)
... aka Return of Maxwell Smart, The (1980)
1978 High Anxiety
1976 Silent Movie
1975 "When Things Were Rotten" TV Series (creator) (writer)
(episode "The Capture of Robin Hood")
1974 Young Frankenstein
1974 Blazing Saddles (screenplay)
1973 10 from Your Show of Shows
1971 Shinbone Alley
1970 Twelve Chairs, The (screenplay)
1968 Producers, The
1965 "Get Smart" TV Series (creator)
1963 Critic, The
1958/II "Sid Caesar Invites You" TV Series
1954 "Caesar's Hour" TV Series (writer)
1954 New Faces (sketches) (as Melvin Brooks)
1950 "Your Show of Shows" TV Series
1949 "Admiral Broadway Revue, The" TV Series (writer)
Composer
2005 Producers, The (announced)
2001 Recording 'The Producers': A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
(TV)
1993 Robin Hood: Men in Tights (songs "Men in Tights"
and "Mariam")
... aka Sacre Robin des bois (1993) (France)
1987 Spaceballs (song "Spaceballs")
1983 To Be or Not to Be (songs)
1981 History of the World: Part I (song "Jews in Space")
(song "The Inquisition")
... aka Mel Brooks' History of the World: Part 1 (1981) (USA:
complete title)
1978 High Anxiety (song "High Anxiety")
1974 Blazing Saddles (songs "The Ballad of Rock Ridge",
"I'm Tired" and "The French Mistake")
1970 Twelve Chairs, The (song "Hope for the Best, Expect
the Worst")
1968 Producers, The (songs "Springtime for Hitler" and
"We're Prisoners of Love")
Himself
2003 Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Impact of
Sid Caesar (V) .... Himself
2003 Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid
Caesar (V) .... Himself
2003 100 Years of Hope and Humor (TV) .... Himself
2001 55th Annual Tony Awards, The (TV) .... Himself
2001 Hail Sid Caesar! The Golden Age of Comedy .... Himself
2001 Sid Caesar Collection: The Fan Favorites - The Dream Team
of Comedy, The (V) .... Himself
2001 Recording 'The Producers': A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
(TV) .... Himself
2001 Sid Caesar Collection: The Fan Favorites - Love & Laughter,
The (V) .... Himself
2001 Sid Caesar Collection: The Fan Favorites - The Professor
and Other Clowns, The (V) .... Himself
2001 Inside TV Land: Get Smart (TV) .... Himself
2000 Intimate Portrait: Madeline Kahn (TV) .... Himself
2000 Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy, The (V) ....
Himself
2000 Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room, The (V)
.... Himself
2000 Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV, The (V) ....
Himself
2000 AFI's 100 Years, 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (TV)
.... Himself
1998 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (TV) .... Himself
1997 Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch (TV) .... Himself
1997 I Am Your Child (TV) .... Himself
1996 Caesar's Writers (TV) .... Himself
1994 It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein (TV) .... Himself
1994 Hal Roach: King of Laughter (TV) .... Himself
1984 Great Standups, The (TV) (archive footage) .... Himself
... aka Great Standups: Sixty Years of Laughter, The (1984) (TV)
(USA)
1984 Sunset People .... Himself
1983 Audience with Mel Brooks, An (TV) .... Himself
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