He late get into film, working as an actor, director, writer & producer. Among his virtually all popular films use at times been Young Frankenstein (co-written with Gene Wilder) and Blazing Saddles (co-written with Richard Pryor), both of which were freed inside 1974. Brooks developed the stock company of sorts for even his film function: performing artist by owning trine or supplementary Brooks films to their credit include Wilder, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman and, of course, Brooks himself.

Within 1980 Brooks became interested inside producing a film "The Elephant Man" directed by David Lynch. Caring that anyone seeing a poster sustaining "Mel Brooks presents The Elephant Man" would last along expecting a comedy, he install a company Brooksfilm to make the film. Brooksfilm has since produced the total of non-comedy films, including David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986), Frances, and 84 Charing Cross Road, starring Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft, when well as comedies, including Richard Benjamin's My Favorite Year.

Brooks' virtually all recent profits has been the transport of his film The Producers to the Broadway stage. Brooks was likewise featured in the 2005 alive film Robots. He is presently working in the sequel to his 1987 hit Spaceballs, a parody of the Star Wars and Star Trek series.

Brooks is one of a select group who have received an Oscar, Emmy, Tony, and Grammy. Inside the 2005 poll to find ''The Comedian's Comedian'', he was voted #50 of the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. 3 of Brooks' films come on the American Film Institute's list of funniest American films: Blazing Saddles (#6), The Producers (#11), and Young Frankenstein (#13).

Brooks was married to Florence Baum from either 1951 to 1961. Their marriage ended within divorcement. Mel & Florence experienced troika babies, Stefanie, Nicky, & Eddie. Extra famously, he was married to the actress Anne Bancroft from 1964 until her death June 6, 2005. It met in rehearsal for the Perry Como variety show in 1961 and married 3 years late, August 5th. It experienced a single boy, Maximillian, in 1972.

It worked together in ii films: Creek's 1983 remake of To Be or Not to Be and in his 1976 Silent Movie. Years late, it appeared when themselves in the quaternary year finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm, spoofing the finale of The Producers. These are reported that Bancroft encouraged Brooks to require The Producers to Broadway which became an tremendous profits. Such profits has translated to the large screen version of the Broadway adaptation/remake by using actors Matthew Broderick & Nathan Lane reprising their stage roles, additionally to freshly cast members Uma Thurman & Might Ferrell for Christmas 2005.

Selected filmography
The Producers (1968) (writer, director; Academy Award, best original screenplay) The Twelve Chairs (1970) (writer, director, actor) Young Frankenstein (1974) (co-writer, director) Blazing Saddles (1974) (writer, director, actor) Silent Movie (1976) (writer, director, actor) High Anxiety (1978) (writer, director, actor) History of the World, Part I (1981) (writer, director, actor) To Be or Not to Be (1983) (actor) Spaceballs (1987) (writer, director, actor) Life Stinks (1991) (writer, director, actor) Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) (writer, director, actor) Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) (writer, director, actor) Robots (2005) (voice) The Producers (2005) (writer, producer) Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 4 (actor)