
Gene Wilder
Known for ActingBorn 1933-06-11Died 2016-08-29Милуоки, Висконсин, США
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).Read more
Movies & web series
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Something Wilder
1994 · Series
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Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
2013 · Movie
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Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
1996 · Movie
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Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!
2003 · Movie
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Blacks and Jews
1997 · Movie
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The Making of 'The Producers'
2002 · Movie
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Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
2008 · Movie
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Scarecrow
1972 · Movie
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Young Frankenstein
1974 · Movie
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Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Series
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The Frank Skinner Show
1995 · Series
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Remembering Gene Wilder
2024 · Movie
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Private Screenings: Robert Osborne
2014 · Movie
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Love, Gilda
2018 · Movie
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Series
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1971 · Movie
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Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 · Movie
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Bonnie and Clyde
1967 · Movie
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The Last Laugh
2016 · Movie
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
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Role Model: Gene Wilder
2008 · Movie
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The Electric Company
1971 · Series
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Blazing Saddles
1974 · Movie
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Will & Grace
1998 · Series
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CBS News Sunday Morning
1979 · Series
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The Producers
1968 · Movie
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Acts of Love and Other Comedies
1973 · Movie
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Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'
2001 · Movie
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EXPO: Magic of the White City
2005 · Movie
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See No Evil, Hear No Evil
1989 · Movie
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The Little Prince
1974 · Movie
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The DuPont Show of the Week
1961 · Series
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Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018 · Movie
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Hello Actors Studio
1988 · Movie
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After They Were Famous
2002 · Series
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Back in the Saddle
2001 · Movie
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Silver Streak
1976 · Movie
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Stir Crazy
1980 · Movie
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
1972 · Movie
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Thursday's Game
1974 · Movie
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Alice in Wonderland
1999 · Movie
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
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Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991 · Movie
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The Woman in Red
1984 · Movie
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Death of a Salesman
1966 · Movie
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The Lady in Question
1999 · Movie
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The Frisco Kid
1979 · Movie
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The Defenders
1961 · Series
Please Turn the Page
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Please Turn the Page
1977 · Series