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| children = 4; including Max | module = World War II Victory Medal }} }} }} Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky,〔Parish, pp. 16–17〕 born June 28, 1926) is an American film director, screenwriter, comedian, actor, producer, composer, singer, and songwriter. He was married to Anne Bancroft from 1964 until her death in 2005. Brooks is best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. He began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show ''Your Show of Shows''. He became well known as part of the comedy duo with Carl Reiner in the comedy skit, ''The 2000 Year Old Man''. He also created, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series, ''Get Smart'', which ran from 1965 to 1970.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Get Smart (TV Series 1965–1970) )〕 In middle age, he became one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s, with many of his films being among the top 10 money makers of the year they were released. His best-known films include ''The Producers'', ''The Twelve Chairs'', ''Blazing Saddles'', ''Young Frankenstein'', ''Silent Movie'', ''High Anxiety'', ''History of the World, Part I'', ''Spaceballs'', and ''Robin Hood: Men in Tights''. A musical adaptation of his first film, ''The Producers'', ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007. In 2001, having previously won an Emmy, a Grammy, and an Oscar, he joined a small list of EGOT winners with his Tony award for ''The Producers''. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, the 41st AFI Life Achievement Award in June 2013, and a British Film Institute Fellowship in March 2015. Three of his films ranked in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy films of all-time, all of which ranked in the top 20 of the list: ''Blazing Saddles'' at number 6, ''The Producers'' at number 11, and ''Young Frankenstein'' at number 13. ==Early life and education== Brooks was born Melvin James Kaminsky on June 28, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York, to James and Kate (née Brookman) Kaminsky.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mel Brooks profile at )〕 His father's family were Jews from Danzig, Germany (present-day Gdańsk, Poland); his mother's family were Jews from Kiev, in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). He had three older brothers: Irving, Lenny, and Bernie. Lenny's grandson Todd Kaminsky is a New York State Assemblyman for District 20 on Long Island. Brooks' father died of kidney disease at 34 when Brooks was two years old.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Mel Brooks Fan Site :: Print: Adelina Magazine February 1980 )〕 He has said of his father's death, "there's an outrage there. I may be angry at God, or at the world, for that. And I'm sure a lot of my comedy is based on anger and hostility. Growing up in Williamsburg, I learned to clothe it in comedy to spare myself problems—like a punch in the face."〔Wakeman, John. World Film Directors, Volume 2. The H.W. Wilson Company. 1988, pp. 162-167.〕 Brooks was a small, sickly boy who often was bullied and picked on by his classmates.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Mel Brooks Fan Site: Print: Adelina Magazine Feb 1980 )〕 He was taught by Buddy Rich (who had also grown up in Williamsburg) how to play the drums and started earning money at it when he was 14.〔 After attending Abraham Lincoln High School for a year, Brooks graduated from Eastern District High School and then spent a year at Brooklyn College as a psychology major before being drafted into the army.〔 He attended the Army Specialized Training Program〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ASTP Program and Roster, World War II, VMI. )〕 conducted at the Virginia Military Institute (although not actually as a VMI cadet), and served in the United States Army as a corporal in the 1104 Engineer Combat Battalion, 78th Infantry Division defusing land mines during World War II. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mel Brooks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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