Mel Brooks Mel Brooks was born in Brooklyn ... Brooks was drafted into the Army to fight during World War II. He served as a corporal in the 1104 Engineer Combat Battalion, 78th Infantry Division ...

More recent famous VMI alumni include the late actor Fred Willard, World War II figures George Marshall and Gen. George Patton, award-winning comic Mel Brooks and Col. Douglas Macgregor – a ...

Legendary actor Gene Hackman, 95, and wife Betsy Arakawa, 65, and their dog were found dead in their home outside Santa Fe, ...

as the blind hermit in Mel Brooks' 1974 classic "Young Frankenstein" or as the smarmy nemesis Lex Luthor in "Superman" (1978) — the first, and still one of the best, superhero movies.

During the 1970s, he had a leading role in The Poseidon Adventure as the brave Reverend Frank Scott and a memorable cameo as the blind man in Mel Brooks ... s Second World War epic A Bridge ...

The Oscar-winner starred in The French Connection, Mississippi Burning, The Poseidon Adventure, The Royal Tenenbaums amid a host of other movies.

Two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife Betsy Arakawa have been found dead in their home in New Mexico, authorities said.

Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks. Isabella Cotier ... of Black soldiers fighting in World War II. In their blend of bravado and vulnerability ...

Leaving home at 16 to enlist in the Marine Corps, he served as a field radio operator and then as a broadcast journalist from 1947 to 1952, working in post-war China, then Hawaii and Japan.

Frank Drebin is tasked with foiling an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II. What it's about ... Young Frankenstein (which Mel Brooks co-wrote with Gene Wilder) serves as both a sequel ...

The columnist David Brooks joins Times Opinion’s deputy ... Every generation has its World War II, has its Civil War, has whatever. We’re no different. We are going through a very hard time ...