At 97 Years Old, He Is the Last Blazing Saddles Cast Member Still Alive

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[@chucklowe4166]

What about Burton Gilliam? Wasn't he a primary character?

[@kurtvanluven9351]

You didn't reveal that I took over as president of that motorcycle gang, did you?

[@leesashriber5097]

One of the best comedies ever made!!!

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[@AnnLaven]

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[@creel7343]

My grandfather was a Korean war vet, a serious man, I had never heard him laugh like he did when he watched this movie, RIP Poppy.

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Very interesting, thanks for sharing your grandfather's life story. May she find peace 🙏🙏

[@MikeCee7]

I think you got the gender wrong.

[@BenRollinsActor]

Mel Brooks is NOT the only cast member still alive. Burton Gilliam, who played Lyle (Taggart's right-hand man), is still very much alive at 85 years old.

[@Taigan_HSE]

As is Robyn Hilton (Governor Lepetomane’s “secretary.”)

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Thanks for the info!

[@TheWacoKid1963]

@@FactsVerse If you'd done better research via IMDB you won't need to thank anyone, very poor

[@algorerhythm7663]

My brother drove Burton in a limo a couple of months ago.

[@newodkin]

Rodney Allen Rippy, who plays the young Bart, is also still alive in 2024.

[@joedipietro2559]

Mel Brooks is a comedy genius PERIOD! One ofthe funniest wackiest guys around. An absolute living legend.

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[@JeffreyWLaRue]

I always wished Mel had made a Guest Appearance on the Dick Van Dyke show!!!!!!!

[@joedipietro2559]

@@JeffreyWLaRue oh man that would be hilarious 🤣🤣🤣

[@siriush100]

Amazing and fortunate that he's still with us!

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[@KeithRowley418]

One of the greatest comedy movies ever. God bless them all.

[@edwardchrishooks9918]

Of all of Mel Brooks work Blazing Saddles is his best.

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One of our favorites too, you've got fine taste! Which film comes in at second place?

[@edwardchrishooks9918]

There all good but I have to chose the series "GET SMART".​@@FactsVerse

[@edwardchrishooks9918]

@@FactsVerse Get Smart

[@sebastianmineo1313]

That's a tough call for me. Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles... it's a toss-up.

[@doncurry7669]

History of the world was pretty good to .

[@sallykohorst8803]

Thanks for learning about those who have left us. Love that movie.

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[@stevenwoodward5923]

One sad fact Gene Wilder friend, and wife died from ovarian cancer. Madeline Kahn and Gene's wife the great comedian Gilda Radner.

[@dwightdjackson]

The greatest movie of all time that will never be remade!

[@raytheonbuna1021]

So much talent in that film...🥰

[@lv2465]

The Genius of Mel Brooks is he made everyone of his characters shine.

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[@alextepe4309]

It’s hard to believe that Blazing Saddles is now 50 years old, and it’s also nice that Mel Brooks is still alive and active. I’ve always thought that an important characteristic of comedic genius is when something, despite being many years old, is still funny. And even after 50 years Blazing saddles is still hilarious. Fun fact: Mel Brooks initially had John Wayne in mind the play the Waco kid but he turned it down saying that the script was too dirty for him to appear in it. However he would be the first to see it.

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[@danielsmith9500]

I love this movie watched it all thru the years

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Us too! Who was your favorite cast member?

[@gordonbergslien30]

Mel Brooks was a combat engineer in World War ll. He later said that his least favorite things were combat and engineering.

[@Blackout5871]

It will forever be my favorite Mel Brooks film.

[@briandaleske5139]

I like almost all of the MEL BROOKS’S movies.

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Which one did you not like?

[@ruthmarshall3676]

Blazing Saddles❤

[@FactsVerse]

Glad to know that you're a fan of Blazing Saddles. Who is your favorite cast member?

[@velveteenv76]

RIP guys, thanks for the many hours of laughter which I shall share with my children one day.

[@Juliaflo]

Happy 50th anniversary to Blazing Saddles.

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[@davebonser5481]

I love all his Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety To Be or Not To Be all are absolutely classics

[@godfreymccammon4531]

Every Mel Brooks movie is my favorite Mel Brooks movie. I also have box sets of Show of Shows and Get Smart...the man is a true comic genius!

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[@tonylee7126]

I was a kid in the 70s and watched Carol Burnett show every Saturday night , the comedy back then was the best !

[@billmoran3219]

It’s good to be the king… Mel Brooks

[@Randy-fx1rm]

LOVE YA MEL THANKS FOR ALL YOUVE DONE.

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[@leddygee1896]

The greatest comedy Ever made. Period.

[@contrastej]

I must say, his version of "To be, or not to be" , is a great masterpiece!

[@MegaCraptacular]

Mel was also responsible for the TV show "Get Smart". The comedy was tv gold!

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[@harrydonahue1657]

We love Mel❤

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Absolutely!

[@SAMTHINKS2]

In my memory Blazing Saddles came out before Young Frankenstein.

[@jeepliving1]

Your memory wins. _Blazing Saddles_ was Feb. 1974 and _Young Frankenstein_ was Dec. 1974.

[@janetyurkin822]

I have the uncut Blazing Saddles on a disk. I’ve seen it many times but still find something different and unique every time I watch it. One of the best movies ever made. Mel is the best!

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[@marianparoo1544]

I love when Members of the Tribe stick in jokes that others will probably not get!

[@cartsnj]

Young Frankenstein!

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[@cartsnj]

Keep doing what you're doing! Excellent fun facts!

[@TheRiverPirate13]

Mel Brooks movie "History of the World Part 1" was absolutely hysterical! Madelyn Khan was so beautiful but also so funny too!

[@cyrilsneer6984]

How he went from the comedically inspired Blazing Saddles to the atrocious Spaceballs is one of the mysteries of the Universe but long may he remain alive

[@Rick_King]

Mel Brooks is a legend, and Blazing Saddles is perhaps the greatest comedy ever made! But let's see. Burton Gilliam (Lyle) is still alive, age 85. Robyn Hilton (Miss Stein) is still alive, age 79. So those two have also outlived all the rest. In the video, the narrator said "primary cast," but the heading just said that Brooks was the last cast member alive. Yeah, I'm being picky, but facts is facts!

[@FactsVerse]

Couldn't agree more! Thank you for sharing your views on this. We love Mel and Blazing Saddles 💕

[@peepers46]

Ummm, I hope you’re talking about Mel Brooks

[@alancrisp1582]

🤔 No kidding Columbo, I would never have guessed that !.

[@jeepliving1]

Who's Mel Brooks? If he's so great, why doesn't somebody make a YT video about him?

[@robertdragoff6909]

You could have talked about John Hillerman who played Howard Johnson…. He also had a storied career. He played Higgins on Magnum PI, and many other tv shows and movies

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[@JeffreyWLaRue]

John also appeared in Paper Moon with Ryan O'Neil and Tatum O'Neil as the Sheriff!!!!!!

[@tenstevens9021]

I seriously considered suing Mel Brooks. I laughed so hard while watching this movie that I couldn't breathe. It should have been a crime to make a movie that funny. Truly one of the funniest movies ever!!

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[@pirotehs]

Robyn Hilton, Burton Gilliam are listed as a cast members of this movie and they are still alive. I looked in imdb's rest of cast, and there were several more minor cast members alive. Alternative Facts Verse?

[@jasonrodgers9063]

"Young Frankenstein" came out AFTER "Blazing Saddles", NOT BEFORE!! (Love them BOTH!)

[@SuperChicken666]

Slim Pickens was my favorite actor in this movie and any movie or TV show he appeared in. I can't say that he was versatile. Like John Wayne, he always played pretty much the same character, and never disappointed.😊❤❤

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One of our favorites too, you've got fine taste! What other types of video would you like to see?

[@EPShockley]

Rodney Allen Rippy, who played young Bart in the flashback sequence, is still alive! He also occasionally shows up at the Hollywood Show events, and I have met him. Very nice young man. :-) Also… Burton, Gilliam, who I met about a year or so ago, at another, Hollywood Show event, is also still alive, and a really terrific experience! Had a really great time, talking and laughing with him! :-)

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[@mizmamajoe]

I love Mel Brooks! ❤❤❤❤❤

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[@MrRrainbeau]

Harvey Korman voiced “The Great Gazoo” (space alien from “The Flintstones”)

[@jeffreycharlton335]

He voiced the Dictabird

[@robinbockman7247]

I know what it's like to know someone Mel's age. My step father is the same age, still drives and plays golf.

[@ruthmarshall3676]

All of them were my favorite

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[@vikkiganley6899]

That's blazing saddles is one of the funniest movies I've ever watched. You could not make that movie today.

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[@phoenixmike1967]

Your wrong!! Burton Gilliam who played Lyle and Robyn Hilton and Mrs. Stein are both still alive. They both secondary main characters through out the movie! You included the great Dom Deluise, even though he has nothing to do with the main story and doesn’t show up till near the end of the movie, and only has a few minutes of screen time. Watch the movie, do your research!! 😎

[@markkenny2001]

Is it actually true that Mel Brooks is the last surviving cast member of Blazing Saddles (1974) and Young Frankenstein (1974)?

[@cards0486]

Well, think back to all the major stars of BLAZING SADDLES. Mel is the only one still living. Teri Garr is still alive from YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.

[@Pirromount]

Burton Gilliam from Saddles is still alive.

[@markkenny2001]

​@@cards0486Burton Gilliam and Rodney Rippy along with Mel Brooks are the last surviving cast members of Blazing Saddles (1974), Gene Hackman and Teri Garr along with Mel Brooks are the last surviving cast members of Young Frankenstein (1974).

[@markkenny2001]

@@Pirromount So is Rodney Rippy.

[@phoenixmike1967]

No, made a comment about, there are 2 others from blazing saddles. As far as young Frankenstein Teri Garr a main character and gene Hackman a minor character are still alive. Mel brooks also a minor character is obviously still alive.

[@donjohnson3701]

OMG, it was 50 years ago! Yeah, they couldn’t make it today, but, damn, it was funny!

[@kurtvanluven9351]

And he is a treasure!

[@davidwhite3216]

Mel Brooks is not the only cast member still alive, there are two others still alive, a third but he went uncredited

[@vansongs]

He is the 2000 year old man after all.

[@ericgugi8912]

Well send him a CANDY-GRAM

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[@Raevon22]

Best movie ever!

[@rods6405]

0:49 "racial discrimination, " bollocks he went on to do heaps of movies and TV and so did many other ......

[@a2jc234]

Fun fact about Blazing Saddles for the role of the Wakeo Kid Mel wasn’t to keen on casting his buddy Gene Wilder. He felt he was to young and so he set his sites on the Duke himself; that’s right he wanted to have none other than John Wayne play Jim. John once he read the script he couldn’t stop laughing and second he had to turn down the role because it was to dirty for John Wayne, but third he promised get everyone he to go see it once it was made. I can’t remember who they casted as Jim before Gene Wilder, only that the first day of filming the not Gene got on his horse and thew up green vomite all over the crew. With that enter Gene Wilder and the rest is history.

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[@davefairburn3298]

Mel Brooks is a WWII veteran & fought in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944.

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Fun stuff, thanks for sharing this info about Mel. In your opinion, what is his finest role?

[@KevinShaughnessy-lf3vs]

May the farce be with you 🙂👍

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[@craigsavarese8631]

How could you ignore Burton Gilliam (who is still alive)? His character was much larger one than several of the actors that you did mention.

[@00ga-booga]

He's actually going to become the 2,000 year old man!

[@aafjeyakubu5124]

Skipped right over John Hillerman.

[@clocksurfer]

Burton Gilliam and Robyn Hilton are still alive, and I'm guessing several other cast members are, too.

[@colmhain]

"The Inquisition! what a show! The Inquisition, here we go! We know your wishin' that we'd go awaAAAY! But the Inquisition's here, and it's here to STAAAAAAAAAAYY!!"

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[@kiwimunster]

I loved Silent Movie & Men in Tights

[@gjace26]

Mel brooks might be the last of the main characters from that film, but Burton gillium is 85 and still alive.

[@kohashiguchi9671]

Alex Karras and I share a birthday, twenty years apart. However he's twice the actor that I am, and a thousand times the athlete :D

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[@DJChrist2006]

Every time any one of these actors died, Mel got the Quickening. No other way to explain it.

[@ezrapotter4631]

1:08 how does his hat stay on?

[@DavidStair]

Blazing Saddles bar none it’s still as funny today as it was back in 1974

[@leonardcollings7389]

I saw the movie in theater in 1976 most likely March. I was a little shocked at issues of race and prejudice.

[@dashriprock9092]

“Darn near lost a $400 hand cart”

[@lavern007]

Let's not forget the governor's secretary. Hello boys, I've missed you.

[@d.b.1176]

It’s good to be the king.

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[@putinscat1208]

Burton Gillium who played Lyle us still alive too.

[@terryguest6035]

Gene Wilder wasn't in Young Frankenstein before Blazing Saddles. YF was made after Blazing Saddles.

[@Robinwhiteart]

Top two movies: The Producers and Blazing Saddles! History Of The World Part 1 next favorite.

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[@fabienlamour3644]

It worth being the King!

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[@andrewharris7517]

Let's not Forget that the late Great Richard Pryor was one of the writers on This classic motion picture..

[@HeronPoint2021]

and according to Brooks, Pryor wrote the Mongo script. But I'm glad Brooks DIDN@T use \Pryor in the film. It would have been a "Richard Pryor" film and lose it's everyman appeal and focus.

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[@andrewharris7517]

@@FactsVerse Could You do a video on the Original SHAFT.. it was the first film I saw in the theater. And the history of the Character.. Way before there was a Blade and Black Panther There was John Shaft...

[@a2jc234]

Favorite Mel Brooks film easy, Young Frankenstein with Blazing Saddles as a very close second.

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[@larryhatcher8927]

Burton Gilliam (The guy who played Kyle) is still alive

[@tonyhill1264]

America has become so Woke and horrifically political in 2024, this brilliant movie could never be made today. Tragic.

[@michaelryan9515]

Burton Gilliam aka Lyle is also still alive.

[@user-vg2eg7oo5n]

Still breaking wind and entertainment longevity records.

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[@larryhatcher8927]

I kinda find that hard to believe. There were hundreds of people in that film

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[@garpylinski3757]

Child star Rodney Allan Ripy is still alive. He's 55 yrs old

[@nmjerry]

They need to cancel that Mel Brooks for that Blazin Saddles.

[@Alex-xn8pq]

Wrong. Burton Gilliam (Lyle) is still alive at 85 years old.

[@DarkKnight52365]

favorite is Spaceballs

[@charliehodges]

Button Gilliam is still alive. He played Lyle.

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Thanks for the info! Much appreciated 💗

[@richierich3541]

Burton Gilliam is still alive as well.

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[@donbarrett4022]

Young Frankenstein is the best comedy ever made.😂

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[@lpdog82]

Do your homework, many cast members are still living that were in this movie😉

[@billpinto4692]

All of them

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You're a true fan!

[@johnashton4776]

Watching this movie 🍿 with my parents was extremely painful, Do Not Laugh 😂😂😂😂.

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Lol!

[@Jdwify]

This is a great movie and cast, especially Madeline Kahn with her two eye popping boobs. The whole cast was fantastic to the point of hysteria especially when they're all sitting around the campfire after eating beans and farting.

[@paulpeterson4216]

I really hate when they let AI write these scripts and nobody bothers to edit them

[@thomasrevor7608]

Sorry, but Mel Brooks is not the last one still alive. Burton Gillam is still around and kicking, too.

[@rabbigrape]

Burton Gillium still alive. Nice try with the dramatic title tho.