Blazing Saddles is a 1974 satirical Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks.

Le Petomane ( Mel Brooks ) appoint a new sheriff.

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Category: Films directed by Mel Brooks

Other former Baltimore announcers include Josh Lewin ( currently with New York Mets ), Bill O ' Donnell, Tom Marr, Scott Garceau, Mel Proctor, Michael Reghi, former major league catcher Buck Martinez, and former Oriole players including Brooks Robinson, pitcher Mike Flanagan and outfielder John Lowenstein.

Among the leading lights in comedy films of the next decade were Woody Allen and Mel Brooks.

* High Anxiety, a film by Mel Brooks

Returning to the stage in 2003, Alexander was cast in a successful run, opposite Martin Short, in the Los Angeles production of Mel Brooks ' The Producers.

) Mel Brooks directed a Keystone Cops-type car chase in his comedy film Silent Movie.

In the 1981 film History of the World, Part I, Moses is portrayed by Mel Brooks.

Several filmmakers have paid homage to the comedies of the silent era, including Jacques Tati with his Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot ( 1953 ) and Mel Brooks with Silent Movie ( 1976 ).

* June 28 – Mel Brooks, American entertainer ( The Producers )

In the 1950s, his most important work in television involved writing for Red Buttons, Sid Caesar on Caesar's Hour, in Celeste Holm's Honestly, Celeste !, as well as with writers Mel Tolkin, Michael Stewart, Selma Diamond, Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and ( on two Caesar specials ) Woody Allen.

Slapstick continues to maintain a presence in modern comedy that draws upon its lineage, running in film from Buster Keaton and Louis de Funès to Mel Brooks to the Jackass movies to the Farrelly Brothers, and in live performance from Weber & Fields to Jackie Gleason to Rowan Atkinson.

In 1967, Mike Nichols cast Hoffman in The Graduate, a role which prevented him from appearing in the acclaimed Mel Brooks film, The Producers, as Franz Liebkind.

Also, in one scene from Mel Brooks ' Spaceballs, Princess Vespa also appears to have the hairstyle, but reveals that she is actually wearing a large pair of headphones.

Mel Brooks played a comic version of Louis XVI in The History of the World Part 1, portraying him as a libertine who has such a distaste for the peasantry he uses them as targets in skeet shooting.

He appeared in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes ' Smarter Brother and Mel Brooks ' Silent Movie, as well as directing and starring in The Last Remake of Beau Geste.

On the DVD commentary of Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks cites factors that may have contributed to Feldman's death: thumb " He smoked sometimes six packs of cigarettes daily, drank copious amounts of black coffee, and ate a diet rich in eggs and dairy products ".

Even a leading role in a Mel Brooks comic horror parody, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, failed to generate much box office excitement, although it did gain somewhat of a following on its later release to video.

The standard takes its name from the fictional town Rock Ridge in Mel Brooks ' film Blazing Saddles.

With this award, she became one of only 12 other entertainers – in a list that includes Whoopi Goldberg, Barbra Streisand and Mel Brooks among others – to win an Emmy, Grammy, Tony Award and Academy Award.

Mel Brooks ' 1974 film Blazing Saddles, set in the Wild West in 1874, contains many blatant anachronisms from the 1970s, including a stylish Gucci costume for the sheriff, an automobile, a scene at Grauman's Chinese Theater, and frequent references to Hedy Lamarr ( 1914 – 2000 ).

The term lent itself to several " in " jokes: in Mel Brooks ' film High Anxiety, which parodies many Hitchcock films, a minor plot point is advanced by a mysterious phone call from a " Mr. MacGuffin ".

Braveheart is a 1995 epic historical drama film directed by and starring Mel Gibson.

Past winners have included Angela Lansbury ( 1988 ), Ray Charles ( 1991 ), Mel Tormé ( 1994 ), Bernadette Peters ( 1995 ), Frank Sinatra ( 2000 ), Stevie Wonder ( 2002 ), k. d.

Marceau achieved international recognition in 1995 as Princess Isabelle in Mel Gibson's Braveheart.

* A character named Balliol, portrayed by British actor Bernard Horsfall, appears in Mel Gibson's 1995 Oscar-winning epic, Braveheart, an heroic tale of Scottish national hero William Wallace.

As Mel Gussow wrote in Merrill ’ s 1995 obituary: " their friendly competition was an impetus for each becoming a writer.

The 1993 film The Man Without a Face, starring Mel Gibson, the 2001 film In the Bedroom and the 1995 film Casper were filmed in Rockport.

This is reflected in the 1995 Mel Gibson film Braveheart where Irishmen come to join William Wallace in his fight against Edward I.

* 1995 " Stomp " ( with Coolio, Luniz, Melle Mel, Shaquille O ' Neal ) ( Q's Jook Joint )

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* William Wallace in Mel Gibson's Braveheart ( 1995 ).

He was featured in David Cronenberg's Scanners ( 1981 ), and played King Edward I aka Longshanks in Mel Gibson's Braveheart ( 1995 ).

* Mel Gibson ( June 1983, February 1987, May 1995, November 1996 )

); 1972 ( Bob Fosse won the Oscar for directing Cabaret ); 1985 ( Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for directing Out of Africa ); 1995 ( Mel Gibson won for directing Braveheart ); 2000 ( Steven Soderbergh won the Oscar for directing Traffic ); and 2002 ( Roman Polanski won the Oscar for directing The Pianist ).

* Mel Brooks in the parody Dracula: Dead and Loving It ( 1995 )

Mel Brooks's 1995 parody Dracula: Dead and Loving It has Peter MacNicol in the role.

* Meyerhold, Eisenstein and Biomechanics: Actor Training in Revolutionary Russia by Alma H. Law, Mel Gordon, McFarland & co, 1995

Simpson Medallists: ( 10 total ) 1946: John Loughridge, 1949: Jack Larcombe, 1951: Don Porter, 1960: Brian Foley, 1969: Bill Dempsey, 1971: Shane Sheridan, 1975: Mel Whinnen, 1995: Darren Harris, 1999: Christian Kelly, 2003: Brent LeCras

In 1995, Mel Gibson's epic classic, " Braveheart " ( 1995 ) was released, with Angus in the role of Robert the Bruce.

From 1986 to 1988 he served as abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center, and from 1988 to 1995 he served there as co-abbot with Sojun Mel Weitsman.

In films, Hedaya has played the evil dictator Arius in 1985's Commando, Mel Horowitz, the father of Alicia Silverstone's Cher in the 1995 film Clueless.

* Clueless ( 1995 ) .... Mel Horowitz

Mel White ( 1995 )