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Mel Brooks Turns 100 on June 28, 2026
Mel Brooks reached his 100th birthday on June 28, 2026. Born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn in 1926, he created films including The Producers and Blazing Saddles along with television series such as Get Smart.
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Mel Brooks turned 100 on Sunday, June 28, 2026. Born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York, he began his screen career as an uncredited writer on the NBC series The Admiral Broadway Revue in 1949. Forbes reported that Brooks received credit as a writer on the NBC series Your Show of Shows from 1950 to 1954.
Which ran for five seasons through 1970. Brooks wrote and directed the 1967 film The Producers. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for that film at the 41st Academy Awards on April 14, 1969.
He wrote and directed the 1974 films Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, followed by Silent Movie in 1976 and High Anxiety in 1977. He wrote, directed, and starred in five roles in the 1981 film History of the World: Part I. He wrote, directed, and starred in the 1987 film Spaceballs and co-wrote, directed, and starred in the 1993 film Robin Hood: Men in Tights and the 1995 film Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
Brooks played the recurring role of Uncle Phil on Mad About You in four episodes from 1996 to 1999 and won three consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 1997, 1998, and 1999. He and Carl Reiner won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for The 2000 Year Old Man In The Year 2000, released in 1999.
The Broadway musical The Producers won 12 Tony Awards at the 2001 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Brooks received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on April 23, 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award on June 6, 2013, and a BAFTA Fellowship Award on February 12, 2017. Brooks narrated all eight episodes of the Hulu series History of the World: Part II, released in 2023.
He received an honorary Oscar at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 14th Annual Governors Awards on January 9, 2024. He attended the Los Angeles premiere of the HBO documentary series Mel Brooks: 99 Year Old Man! on January 20, 2026.
