New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

FILM DIRECTOR

Mel Brooks

1926 - Today

Photo of Mel Brooks

Icon of person Mel Brooks

Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright. With a career spanning over seven decades, Brooks 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 19 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mel Brooks has received more than 18,003,617 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia. Mel Brooks is the 130th most popular film director (down from 115th in 2019), the 872nd most popular biography from United States (down from 763rd in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Film Director.

Mel Brooks is most famous for his movie, The Producers.

Memorability Metrics

  • 18M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Mel Brooks by language


Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Mel Brooks ranks 130 out of 1,581. Before him are Marcel Carné, Jiří Menzel, Peter Greenaway, Michael Curtiz, Aki Kaurismäki, and John Woo. After him are Moustapha Akkad, René Clément, Claude Lelouch, D. W. Griffith, István Szabó, and Andrei Konchalovsky.

Most Popular Film Directors in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Mel Brooks ranks 45. Before him are Necmettin Erbakan, Beji Caid Essebsi, Hilary Putnam, Louise Hay, Maria Schell, and Irwin Rose. After him are Valdas Adamkus, Ingeborg Bachmann, Steve Reeves, Alcides Ghiggia, Tony Bennett, and Murray Rothbard.

Others Born in 1926

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In United States

Among people born in United States, Mel Brooks ranks 872 out of 18,182. Before him are Linda Hunt (1945), Karl Malden (1912), Irwin Rose (1926), Norman Rockwell (1894), William Kemmler (1860), and Robert Lucas Jr. (1937). After him are Solomon Northup (1808), Jack Palance (1919), Lex Barker (1919), Mae West (1893), Glenn T. Seaborg (1912), and Jean Harlow (1911).

Others born in United States

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Mel Brooks ranks 37. Before him are David Fincher (1962), Sam Peckinpah (1925), John Carpenter (1948), Peter Bogdanovich (1939), Michael Mann (1943), and Michael Cimino (1939). After him are D. W. Griffith (1875), Joel Schumacher (1939), Blake Edwards (1922), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909), Ed Wood (1924), and Robert Wise (1914).

American born Film Directors

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Twitter Activity

Filmography

  • DatawheelCL