Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman; June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016) was an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, singer-songwriter, and author.
He 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.
He 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). He 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 – he 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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Known for
The Defenders
Waiter
Will & Grace
Mr. Stein
Honest Trailers
Willy Wonka (archive footage)
The Electric Company
Legends
Self
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Willy Wonka
Blazing Saddles
Jim
Bonnie and Clyde
Eugene Grizzard
After They Were Famous
Self (archive footage)
The DuPont Show of the Week
Muller
The DuPont Show of the Week
Reporter
Young Frankenstein
Frederick Frankenstein
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Dave Lyons
Something Wilder
Gene Bergman
The Woman in Red
Theodore Pierce
The Producers
Leo Bloom
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
Dr. Doug Ross
Stir Crazy
Skip Donahue
Silver Streak
George Caldwell
Remembering Gene Wilder
Self (archive footage)
Alice in Wonderland
Mock Turtle
The Little Prince
The Fox
Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'
Self
Another You
George / Abe Fielding
Hanky Panky
Michael Jordon
The Frisco Kid
Avram
EXPO: Magic of the White City
Narrator (voice)
Haunted Honeymoon
Larry Abbot
Start the Revolution Without Me
Claude / Philippe
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Sigerson Holmes
The World's Greatest Lover
Rudy Valentine / Rudy Hickman
Funny About Love
Duffy Bergman
Thursday's Game
Harry Evers
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
Self
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Self (archive footage)
Murder in a Small Town
Cash Carter
Sunday Lovers
Skippy (sketch 'Skippy')
The Last Laugh
Self
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Leo Bloom (archive footage) (uncredited)
Love, Gilda
Self (archive footage)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
George / Skip Donahue (archive footage)
Rhinoceros
Stanley
Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!
(archive footage)
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Self (archive footage)
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
Quackser Fortune
Scarecrow
Lord Ravensbane
The Trouble With People
Ernie (Story 4)
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
Self
Death of a Salesman
Bernard
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Dr. Frankenstein (archive footage)
The Lady in Question
Larry 'Cash' Carter
Role Model: Gene Wilder
Self
Baryshnikov in Hollywood
Self - Special Appearence
Private Screenings: Robert Osborne
Self (archive footage)
Back in the Saddle
Self
Hello Actors Studio
Self
Blacks and Jews
Self
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
Self (archive footage)
The Making of 'The Producers'
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Acts of Love and Other Comedies
Herb Waterman
Gene Wilder: Be in the Moment, Today
Himself
The View
Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
Wilder
Self (archive footage)
Wogan
Self
CBS News Sunday Morning
Self - Guest
The Frank Skinner Show
Self
Please Turn the Page
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Self