Mel Brooks is a person.
Mel Brooks . Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows . In middle age , Brooks became one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s , with many of his films being among the top 10 moneymakers of the year they were released . A musical adaptation of his first film , The Producers , ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007 . Young Frankenstein is a 1974 American comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks and starring Gene Wilder as the title character , a descendant of the infamous Dr. Victor Frankenstein .