Turner Classic Movies is celebrating the 100th birthday of Mel Brooks on Sunday, June 28, 2026.
Starting at 2:30 pm, TCM will show five of Brooks’ best known films, including Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.
Below is the schedule of the Mel Brooks tribute on June 28 on TCM; all times are Eastern. Brooks was born on June 26, 1926. You can read more about him below.
2:30pm The Twelve Chairs (1970). 2 hrs|Comedy|TV-PG. A fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs. Director Mel Brooks, Cast Mel Brooks, Ron Moody, Frank Langella.
4:15pm The Producers (1967). 1 hr 30 mins|Comedy|TV-14. A Broadway producer decides to get rich by creating the biggest flop of his career. Director Mel Brooks,Cast Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars.
6:00pm Spaceballs (1987). 2 hrs|Adventure|TV-PG. Rogue space merchant Lone Starr and his sidekick, Barf, must stop the evil Dark Helmet from stealing a planet’s air supply. Director Mel Brooks, Cast Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis.
8:00pm Blazing Saddles (1974). 2 hrs|Comedy|TV-MA. Mel Brooks’ classic Western comedy starring Cleavon Little as a Black sheriff sent to defend the very white frontier town of Rock Ridge. Director Mel Brooks, Cast Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens.
10:00pm Young Frankenstein. 2 hrs|Comedy|TV-14. Mel Brooks gives the old horror classic a riotous comic twist in this classic comedy with Gene Wilder as the mad monster-maker. Director Mel Brooks, Cast Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman.
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Mel Brooks’s Life and Career
Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, filmmaker, comedian, songwriter, and playwright. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies.[1] A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 22 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and an Honorary Academy Award in 2024.
Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar’s variety show Your Show of Shows (1950–1954). There, he worked with Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart, and Carl Reiner. With Reiner, he co-created the comedy sketch “The 2000 Year Old Man” and released several comedy albums, starting with 2000 Year Old Man in 1960. Brooks received five nominations for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album finally winning in 1999. With Buck Henry, he created the hit satirical spy NBC television comedy series Get Smart (1965–1970).
Brooks won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Producers (1967). He then rose to prominence directing a string of successful comedy films such as The Twelve Chairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), and High Anxiety (1977). Later, Brooks made History of the World, Part I (1981), Spaceballs (1987), Life Stinks (1991), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995). A musical adaptation of his first film, The Producers, ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007 and won 12 Tony Awards, breaking the previous record of 10, with Brooks personally winning three. The project was remade into a musical film in 2005. He wrote and produced the Hulu series History of the World, Part II (2023).
Brooks was married to actress Anne Bancroft from 1964 until her death in 2005; their son Max Brooks is an actor and author. Mel Brooks published the memoir All About Me! in 2021. The American Film Institute ranked three Mel Brooks films among the best comedies of the 20th century.
Where is Mel Brooks Today?
Mel Brooks lives in Santa Monica, CA. Despite his age, the EGOT-winning filmmaker is actively involved in the industry, producing television series like History of the World, Part II and an upcoming sequel to Spaceballs. His recent life and career are also the focus of the HBO documentary series Mel Brooks: The 99-Year-Old Man!.
Brooks was recently featured in a Today Show profile and on Good Morning America (see video below).
