# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mel-brooks
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:51:08.699Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mel-brooks"
name: "Mel Brooks"
slug: "mel-brooks"
description: "Melvin James Brooks is an American actor, filmmaker, comedian, songwriter, and playwright. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 22 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and an Honorary Academy Award in 2024."
tagline: "American comedian, filmmaker, and actor (born 1926)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MelBrooksApr10.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "comedians"
profileType:
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  slug: "comedian"
birthDate: "1926-06-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 36
totalFollowers: 13800
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump