Mel Brooks has given the finger to Hollywood - the extra finger, that is.

Brooks, the writer, producer and actor responsible for classic movie comedies such as The Producers and Blazing Saddles, sank his hands and feet into cement in front of the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood in a ritual followed by decades of movie legends.

But Brooks, who is 88, wore a fake extra finger on his left hand. He said he left the unique mark "just in case somebody from Des Moines, Iowa, says 'Harry! Harry! Look, Mel Brooks has six fingers on his left hand!'".