Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks directed Spaceballs, a wacky parody of the space-set movies of the '70s and '80s, most notably Star Wars.

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Directed by Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles, History of the World, Part I), Spaceballs is a straight-up spoof of George Lucas’ Star Wars, with nods to Star Trek, Alien, Planet of the Apes, The Wizard of Oz, and other popular sci-fi and fantasy films thrown in along the way.

Mel Brook

While Mel Brook’s films have all reached a certain level of popularity over the years, there are a few that the years seems that everyone has seen…Spaceballs being one of them.

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Spaceballs director Mel Brooks ’s a cruel tyrant, a prolific torturer and murderer, and a master of intimidation.

by Brooks

Directed by Brooks, the original Spaceballs was a send-up of the sci-fi genre released by MGM in 1987.

by Lew Schneider

“Spaceballs” was written by Aaron Kaczander and directed by Lew Schneider.

Dave Heather

The original director of the series was Dave Heather.

the last thing Mel Brooks made where I got authentic laughs

Spaceballs was the last thing Mel Brooks made where I got authentic laughs.

Richard Benjamin

Richard Benjamin directed only two films in the ’80s, History of the World Part I (1981) and Spaceballs (1987), acting in multiple roles in both.

Mr. Brooks

Mr. Brooks was Commander Skroob and Yogurt in Spaceballs, but Mr. Brooks also helped write the film and the Spaceballs theme as well as directed and produced Spaceballs.

Blake Leibel

Blake Leibel worked in a variety of creative roles, including as a director and creative consultant in 2008 on the animated series based on Mel Brooks' 1987 film “Spaceballs,” according to Blake Leibel's profile on IMDb.

George Lucas

The film was written and directed by series creator George Lucas.

Genndy Tartakovsky

After all, their director, Genndy Tartakovsky, began Genndy Tartakovsky's career on television with such quirky series as “Dexter’s Laboratory” and “The Powerpuff Girls” and the far more adult “Samurai Jack” and “Star Wars: The Clone Wars.”

Stanley Kubrick

The spaceflight film caught the attention of director Stanley Kubrick.

David Kangas

Commander Action, a Spanish veteran of the skies (David Kangas - also the Producer and Director) led the rest of this team made up of Gribulous Bertnog Pimplewix, an alien (Mike Rance), Boogaloo, a protocol droid and library management system (Simon Fielding) and Akira Neo 'Rocket Girl', the ships engineer (Anna Singleton) in their mission to 'Save the world, one cartoon at a time' from the evil Dr. Poopanski - Poopants (James Hunt).

Jeff Siergey

The film was directed by Jeff Siergey, a supervising animator on Space Jam and lead animator on Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

William Friedkin, Atom Egoyan and Wes Craven

Directors for this series included William Friedkin, Atom Egoyan and Wes Craven.

J. Michael Straczynski

The creator of this science fiction television series, J. Michael Straczynski, wrote, directed and produced this series and several movies in this universe.

shape-shifting Talos

Fun fact: Mel Brooks originally wanted to name the film Planet Moron, but shape-shifting Talos shifted to Spaceballs when Morons From Outer Space was released.

Mikael Salomon

The series was directed by Mikael Salomon and produced by Ridley Scott and Ridley Scott's brother Tony Scott, the same team that adapted The Andromeda Strain into the 2008 miniseries on A&E.