Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is an American film director,screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer. He is best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. His most well known films include The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World, Part I and Spaceballs.
Comedic. Genius. There will never be another like him. Not much more needs to be said.
His most famous films are listed above, but here are a few others that are definitely worth viewing.
Silent Movie (1976)
A film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years.
High Anxiety (1977)
After a Harvard psychiatrist takes over the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous, he realizes his predecessor died under suspicious circumstances. When events take a murderous turn, he is accused of the crime and left with a full blown case of High Anxiety.
Life Stinks (1991)
A filthy rich businessman bets a corporate rival that he can live on the streets of L.A. without the comforts of home or money, which proves to be tougher than he thought.
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
Cary Elwes stars as Robin Hood, the dashing defender of the
down-trodden, who along with his merry men and Maid Marion, resides in
Sherwood Forest. There they have become together to fight against the
seriously neurotic Prince John, the not quite-evil Sheriff of
Rottingham, and the mad sorceress Latrine.
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
A comic reinvention of the Bela Lugosi classic about a Transylvanian vampire who works his evil spell on a perplexed group of Londoners.
Don't be mad at me, I didn't knew her did The Producers. I LOVE that movie. I'll see what I can do about Dracula and history.
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