Director: Mel Brooks

Writer: Mel Brooks

Music: John Morris

Producer: Mel Brooks

Keywords: Comedy

The history of mankind as told in a series of elaborate episodic set pieces: the Stone Age, the Roman Empire, the Inquisition, French Revolution, etc. Spoofing the historical epic, there is much comedy but a good percentage falls flat, and today seems dated. History has its priceless moments, one such example the Spanish Inquisition had it been imagined by Busby Berkeley.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Mel Brooks	Film Director	28-Jun-1926		Blazing Saddles
Sid Caesar	Comic	8-Sep-1922	12-Feb-2014	Your Show of Shows
Charlie Callas	Comic	20-Dec-1924	27-Jan-2011	Malcolm Argos on Switch
Ron Carey	Actor	11-Dec-1935	16-Jan-2007	Officer Levitt on Barney Miller
Jack Carter	Comic	24-Jun-1923	28-Jun-2015	Stand-up comic, actor
Dom DeLuise	Actor	1-Aug-1933	4-May-2009	Cannonball Run
Fritz Feld	Actor	15-Oct-1900	18-Nov-1993	Bringing Up Baby
Shecky Greene	Comic	8-Apr-1926		Chicago nightclub comic
Nigel Hawthorne	Actor	5-Apr-1929	26-Dec-2001	The Madness of King George
Hugh Hefner	Publisher	9-Apr-1926	27-Sep-2017	Founder, Playboy magazine
John Hillerman	Actor	20-Dec-1932	9-Nov-2017	Higgins on Magnum, P.I.
Gregory Hines	Dancer	14-Feb-1946	9-Aug-2003	Tap dancer
Mary-Margaret Humes	Actor	4-Apr-1954		Gail Leery on Dawson's Creek
John Hurt	Actor	22-Jan-1940	27-Jan-2017	Alien
Madeline Kahn	Actor	29-Sep-1942	3-Dec-1999	Paper Moon and Blazing Saddles
Harvey Korman	Comic	15-Feb-1927	29-May-2008	The Carol Burnett Show
Cloris Leachman	Actor	30-Apr-1926		Phyllis and The Facts of Life
Barry Levinson	Film Director	6-Apr-1942		Rain Man
Jackie Mason	Comic	9-Jun-1934		The World According to Me!
Paul Mazursky	Film Director	25-Apr-1930	30-Jun-2014	Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Pat McCormick	Comic	30-Jun-1927	29-Jul-2005	Smokey and the Bandit
Art Metrano	Actor	22-Sep-1936		Capt. Mauser, Police Academy
Spike Milligan	Comic	16-Apr-1918	27-Feb-2002	The Goon Show
Howard Morris	Actor	4-Sep-1919	21-May-2005	Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show
Jan Murray	Comic	4-Oct-1916	2-Jul-2006	Borscht belt comedian, host of Treasure Hunt
Jack Riley	Actor	30-Dec-1935	19-Aug-2016	Elliot Carlin on The Bob Newhart Show
Andrew Sachs	Actor	7-Apr-1930	23-Nov-2016	Manuel on Fawlty Towers
Pamela Stephenson	Actor	4-Dec-1949		Not the Nine O'Clock News
Andréas Voutsinas	Actor	22-Aug-1932	8-Jun-2010	Stage actor and drama coach
Orson Welles	Actor	6-May-1915	10-Oct-1985	Citizen Kane
Henny Youngman	Comic	16-Mar-1906	24-Feb-1998	Take my wife, please

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