It’s slightly odd that movie versions of stage musicals did not follow on the heels of 1927’s The Jazz Singer, the first ...

The musical adaptation of the film version of The Producers is one of Mel Brooks ’ greatest successes, but the veteran comedian has revealed it nearly didn’t happen. He wasn’t sure his 1967 movie ...

He paired with lifelong friend Carl Reiner to create genius works including The 2,000 Year Old Man, and Brooks co-created Get Smart, the spy spoof sitcom. But Mel Brooks, who recently turned 98 ...

The writer/director, whose latest film "The Alto Knights" arrives in theaters this month, looks back on the film that started his career and the abandoned television series it spawned. In 1983 ...

The Mel Brooks classic Young Frankenstein turns 50 this month. Here are 12 stories of how it came alive.... alive! Cleavon Little (L) and Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles. Warner Bros. Brooks ...

The two things I hate most in the world are combat and engineering." -- Mel Brooks Mel Brooks was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1926 as Melvin Kaminsky to Jewish parents from Germany and Ukraine.

Fifty years ago, The Times’ Charles Champlin spoke to Mel Brooks for the opening of his feature directing debut, “The Producers,” starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. In 2001, it would be ...

Comedy icon Mel Brooks worked with a cavalcade of Hollywood’s funniest stars in his seven-decade career. He crafted memorable roles for legends like Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Teri Garr, Peter Boyle, ...

What was once a cutesy ghost show for kids transforms into something Mel Brooks might binge, where school children drop F-bombs and B-words and scathing rebukes to the Bush administration.

As one of Hollywood’s greatest-ever comedians, an EGOT winner, and the mastermind behind several riotous pictures that are destined to stand the test of time, it would be an understatement to suggest ...

But I went with his portrayal of Harold, the blind hermit who befriends the Creature in Mel Brooks' send-up of horror movies. It's based on the character in the 1931 "Frankenstein," of course ...