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

Le Petomane ( Mel Brooks ) appoint a new sheriff.

* Mel Brooks as Gov.

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.

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 ".

According to Mel Hein, " If he hadn't been killed, he could have been the greatest tackle who ever played football.

Lewis Fiander played Mark Ingesterie with Mel Martin as the heroine Charlotte and Len Jones as Tobias.

In contrast to the negative depictions, in Mel Gibson's Braveheart, Isabella was played by the French actress Sophie Marceau more sympathetically.

He was Mel Sanger, the bubble boy's dad, on Seinfeld, and played Joe Hackett's high school baseball coach on a 1992 episode of Wings.

In Robin Hood: Men in Tights, a 1993 spoof comedy directed by Mel Brooks, Dick Van Patten played the part of the Abbot.

* In Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ ( 2004 ), Pilate is played by Bulgarian actor Hristo Shopov.

In the film, Moore was played by Mel Gibson, while Galloway was portrayed by Barry Pepper.

In 1994, Garner played Marshal Zane Cooper in a movie version of Maverick, with Mel Gibson as Bret Maverick ( in the end it is revealed that Garner's character is the father of Gibson's Maverick ) and Jodie Foster as a gambling lass with a fake southern accent.

Marceau also showed his versatility in motion pictures such as First Class, in which he played 17 roles, Shanks, where he combined his silent art, playing a deaf and mute puppeteer, and his speaking talent, as a mad scientist ; as Professor Ping in Barbarella, and a cameo as himself in Mel Brooks ' Silent Movie, in which, with purposeful irony, his character has the only audible speaking part, uttering the single word " No!

He played with Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Big Band, and later with Earl Hines ' small band.

Early in her career, she played Juliet opposite Mel Gibson's Romeo.

After some success as a screenwriter — notably the Mel Brooks comedies Silent Movie ( 1976 ) and High Anxiety ( 1977 ) ( in which he played a bellboy ) and the Oscar-nominated script ( co-written by then-wife Valerie Curtin ) … And Justice for All ( 1979 ) — Levinson began his career as a director with Diner ( 1982 ), for which he had also written the script and which earned him a Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay.

Between 1986 and 1987, Langford played the role of Mel, companion to both the Sixth and Seventh Doctors in the classic science fiction series Doctor Who.

" Actor Mel Welles was scheduled to play a character named " Draco Cardala ", Jonathan Haze was scheduled to play " Archie Aroma ," and Jack Nicholson would have played a character named " Jocko ".

* Mel McGaha – former Major League manager ; also played in NBA

On September 14, 1975 ( two days before his 20th birthday ), Yount broke Mel Ott's 47-year-old record for most games played in the major leagues before turning 20.

* In the late 1990s, Barker played the father of Mel Harris ' character on a few episodes of the NBC sitcom Something So Right.

Munson was played by Mel Blanc in at least two episodes of the first season: coincidentally, Bryan was the originator of the voice and character of Elmer Fudd, the one voice which Blanc never thought he had made his own.

Amanda Holden played Mel, the receptionist.

On the facing of the upper deck along the left field line are the retired numbers of Bill Terry, Mel Ott, Carl Hubbell, Monte Irvin, Willie Mays, Juan Marichal, Orlando Cepeda, Jackie Robinson, Willie McCovey, and Gaylord Perry as well as the retired uniforms, denoted " NY ", of Christy Mathewson and John McGraw who played or managed in the pre-number era.

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

Mel Brooks played the oldest man in the world, interviewed by Carl Reiner in a series of comedy routines that appeared on television, as well as being made into a collection of records.

From February 2007, Kay played flamboyant gay director Roger DeBris in the Mel Brooks musical, The Producers for the Manchester leg of the UK Tour, at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 12 May 2007.

* Hedley Lamarr, a character in Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles played by Harvey Korman