Background
Brooks, Albert was born on July 22, 1947 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Harry and Thelma (Leeds) Einstein.
Actor comedian filmmaker writer
Brooks, Albert was born on July 22, 1947 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Harry and Thelma (Leeds) Einstein.
He turns in nice acting jobs: as the bumptious campaign worker in Taxi Driver (76, Martin Scorsese); Private Benjamin (80, Howard Zieff); Unfaithfully Yours (84, Zieff); Broadcast News (87, James L. Brooks); I'll Do Anything (94, Brooks)—in which he's very funny working for a director named Brooks. It gives you the shakes if you think about it too much. He was good again, with Leelee Sobieski, in My First Mister (01, Christine Lahti).
He does stand-up, and he makes a series of funny short films for Saturday Night Live. Gradually he gets to make his own features—writing, acting, and directing—which are about a smart, jittery guv who isn't Albert Einstein. They’re about the way reality turns into living theatre; about failures in love, and anything else; failures in general; guilt; your mother; and whether you deserve a muse. And everyone says, “Oh, kinda like Woody Allen?" So Albert never gets hits or awards and never quite makes his unequivocal knockout film.