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Gene Wilder Died at age: 83

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Gene Wilder

Date of Birth:

Jun 11, 1933

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Aug 29, 2016

Biography of

Gene Wilder

    Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman; June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016) was an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, singer-songwriter and author.

    Wilder began his career on stage, and made his screen debut in an episode of the TV series The Play of the Week in 1961. Although his first film role was portraying a hostage in the 1967 motion picture Bonnie and Clyde, Wilder's first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1967 film The Producers for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. This was the first in a series of collaborations with writer/director Mel Brooks, including 1974's Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, which Wilder co-wrote, garnering the pair an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Wilder is known for his iconic portrayal of Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and for his four films with Richard Pryor: Silver Streak (1976), Stir Crazy (1980), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989), and Another You (1991), as well as starring in Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
  • (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972). Wilder directed and wrote several of his own films, including The Woman in Red (1984).

    • With his third wife, Gilda Radner, he starred in three films, the last two of which he also directed. Her 1989 death from ovarian cancer led to his active involvement in promoting cancer awareness and treatment, helping found the Gilda Radner Ovarian Cancer Detection Center in Los Angeles and co-founding Gilda's Club.

    After his last acting performance in 2003 – a guest role on Will & Grace for which he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor – Wilder turned his attention to writing. He produced a memoir in 2005, Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art; a collection of stories, What Is This Thing Called Love? (2010); and the novels My French Whore (2007), The Woman Who Wouldn't (2008), and Something to Remember You By (2013).

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Gene Wilder

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Filmography of

Gene Wilder

Found 47 Movies in total

Remembering Gene Wilder

Self (Archival Footage) ( Actor )

... 2024

Born to Lose Vol. 3: Fuckenstein

Frederick Frankenstein (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2023

Love, Gilda

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2018

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2018

The Last Laugh

Self ( Actor )

... 2016

... 2014

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2013

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

George / Skip Donahue (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2013

... 2008

... 2008

... 2007

EXPO: Magic of the White City

Self - Narrator ( Actor )

... 2005

... 2003

... 2002

The Lady in Question

Larry 'Cash' Carter ( Actor )

Writer

... 1999

Alice in Wonderland

Mock Turtle ( Actor )

... 1999

Murder in a Small Town

Cash Carter ( Actor )

Writer

... 1999

Blacks and Jews

Self ( Actor )

... 1997

... 1996

Another You

George / Abe Fielding ( Actor )

... 1991

Funny About Love

Duffy Bergman ( Actor )

... 1990

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Dave Lyons ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1989

Hello Actors Studio

Self ( Actor )

... 1988

Haunted Honeymoon

Larry Abbot ( Actor )

Writer

... 1986

The Woman in Red

Theodore Pierce ( Actor )

Writer

... 1984

Hanky Panky

Michael Jordon ( Actor )

... 1982

... 1982

Stir Crazy

Skip Donahue ( Actor )

... 1980

Sunday Lovers

Skippy (sketch 'Skippy') ( Actor )

Director

... 1980

The Frisco Kid

Avram ( Actor )

... 1979

The World's Greatest Lover

Rudy Valentine / Rudy Hickman ( Actor )

Writer

... 1977

Silver Streak

George Caldwell ( Actor )

... 1976

... 1975

Young Frankenstein

Frederick Frankenstein ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1974

The Little Prince

The Fox ( Actor )

... 1974

Thursday's Game

Harry Evers ( Actor )

... 1974

Blazing Saddles

Jim ( Actor )

... 1974

Rhinoceros

Stanley ( Actor )

... 1974

Acts of Love and Other Comedies

Herb Waterman ( Actor )

... 1973

... 1972

Scarecrow

Lord Ravensbane ( Actor )

... 1972

... 1971

... 1970

Start the Revolution Without Me

Claude / Philippe ( Actor )

... 1970

The Producers

Leo Bloom ( Actor )

... 1968

Bonnie and Clyde

Eugene Grizzard ( Actor )

... 1967

Death of a Salesman

Bernard ( Actor )

... 1966