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.

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 ".

Other references to Le Pétomane include Mel Brooks's 1974 film Blazing Saddles, Kevin Gilbert's The Shaming of the True, the 1984 college romp film Up the Creek, directed by Robert Butler, in which the four protagonists represent Lepetomane University in an inter-collegiate river raft race, Kinky Friedman's 1999 novel Spanking Watson, and John Hodgman's book The Areas of My Expertise.

Basie made a few more movie appearances, such as the Jerry Lewis film Cinderfella ( 1960 ) and the Mel Brooks movie Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), playing his arrangement of " April in Paris ".

Mel Brooks's 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles leaves its Western setting when the climactic fight scene breaks out, revealling the setting to have been a set in the Warner Bros studio lot ; the fight spills out onto an adjacent musical set, then into the studio canteen, and finally onto the streets.

The line was parodied in the Mel Brooks film Blazing Saddles in 1974 and was cited in many movies after that.

In Mel Brooks ' 1974 Western Blazing Saddles, the line was delivered as " Badges?

In 1974, Lamarr filed an invasion of privacy lawsuit to the tune of $ 10 million for the unauthorized use of her name in the Mel Brooks satire Blazing Saddles ; the case was settled out of court.

The property has been used several times as a filming location, featured most prominently in producer Irwin Allen's 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno, the 1977 Mel Brooks comedy High Anxiety, Don Siegel's spy thriller Telefon of the same year, and the 1979 sci-fi thriller Time After Time.

A close succession of Kahn comedies — Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Young Frankenstein ( 1974 ), and High Anxiety ( 1977 ) — were all directed by Mel Brooks, who many Hollywood observers claimed was able to bring out the best of Kahn's comic talents.

Peter Lawrence Boyle ( October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006 ) was an American actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and as a comical monster in Mel Brooks ' film spoof Young Frankenstein ( 1974 ).

* Thad Jones / Mel Lewis and Manuel De Sica ( 1974 )

Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ) featured a memorable performance between Mel Brooks and Harvey Korman ( who would team up again in Brooks's 1981 followup History of the World, Part I ).

Tayback's most famous role was diner owner Mel Sharples in both the 1974 movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and in the television series, Alice, which ran from 1976 to 1985.

Little was widely known for his lead role as Sheriff Bart in the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles.

* Thad Jones / Mel Lewis and Manuel De Sica ( 1974 ) Pausa

* Thad Jones / Mel Lewis and Manuel De Sica ( 1974 ) Pausa

* Thad Jones / Mel Lewis and Manuel De Sica ( 1974 ) Pausa

After its 1931 use in Frankenstein, the effect was used in many films from the 1930s through the 1980s ( including Mel Brooks '/ Gene Wilder's Young Frankenstein ( 1974 )), until it was mostly retired by 1988.

*' Mel Brooks ' Young Frankenstein ( 1974 )

* Live in Tokyo ( The Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra album ), a 1974 live recording of the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra

In Mel Brooks ' 1974 comedy Young Frankenstein, Gene Wilder portrays Frederick Frankenstein, grandson of Victor, who inherits the family estate but is at first repelled by his grandfather's work ( to the point of insisting that his name is pronounced " Fronk-en-steen ").

Mel Brooks's 1974 parody, Young Frankenstein, included a hunchbacked assistant ( played by Marty Feldman ) who claimed his name is pronounced " Eye-gor " ( in response to Frankenstein's claim that his name is pronounced " Fronkunsteen ").