I may be angry at God, or at the world, for that. Brooks later said of his father's death that 'there's an outrage there.
When Brooks was only two years old, his father passed away from kidney disease, leaving Mel to be raised by his mother and three older brothers - Irving, Lennie, and Bernie. Mel Brooks is a Jewish American comedian, actor, director, and producer most famous for his comical film parodies.īrooks (born June 28, 1926) was born as Melvin Kaminsky into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York.
