FrameThrower · Actors · Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks
2 films · 141 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1981–2025
Born 28 June 1926 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Melvin James Brooks is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and songwriter. 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 21 entertainers to win the EGOT (which includes an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 141 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1981–2025
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay1969
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series1999
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series1998
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series1997
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series1967
- Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical2001
- Tony Award for Best Original Score2001
- Academy Honorary Award2024
- Peabody Awards2023
- AFI Life Achievement Award2013
- Kennedy Center Honors2009
- Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical2005
How their films are shot
Measured across 141 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Mel takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 65% of their frames are day, 52% natural — the look of the work Mel takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 141 frames from Mel Brooks's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.