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Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder

Actor · 1933 – 2016 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

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).

Movies24

  • Movie7.5
  • Movie7.5

    Bonnie and Clyde

    1967 · 1.9K votes

  • Movie7.2

    Blazing Saddles

    1974 · 2.2K votes

  • Movie7.9

    Young Frankenstein

    1974 · 3.5K votes

  • Movie6.8

    See No Evil, Hear No Evil

    1989 · 1.1K votes

  • Movie7.1

    The Producers

    1968 · 935 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Woman in Red

    1984 · 587 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Alice in Wonderland

    1999 · 402 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Silver Streak

    1976 · 376 votes

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie6.5

    Stir Crazy

    1980 · 496 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Hanky Panky

    1982 · 72 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Another You

    1991 · 112 votes

  • Movie6.9

    The Little Prince

    1974 · 127 votes

  • Movie

    Wilder

    2026

  • Movie6.0
  • Movie6.3
  • Movie6.1

    The Frisco Kid

    1979 · 177 votes

  • Movie4.9

    Funny About Love

    1990 · 38 votes

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    Haunted Honeymoon

    1986 · 175 votes

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  • Movie6.0
  • Movie7.0

    The Last Laugh

    2016 · 21 votes

Series18

  • TV7.5
  • TV4.3

    The View

    1997 · 113 votes

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  • TV6.8

    CBS News Sunday Morning

    1979 · 24 votes

  • TV6.9

    Will & Grace

    1998 · 593 votes

  • TV5.3

    Wogan

    1982 · 7 votes

  • TV6.3

    The Defenders

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV7.3

    The Electric Company

    1971 · 26 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV5.0

    Ciné regards

    1978 · 1 votes

  • TV5.1

    Film '72

    1971 · 8 votes

  • TV7.5

    The Frank Skinner Show

    1995 · 3 votes

  • TV5.0

    Legends

    2006 · 1 votes

  • TV6.0

    Bitte umblättern

    Please Turn the Page

    1977 · 1 votes

  • TV7.0
  • TV6.5

    After They Were Famous

    2002 · 2 votes

  • TV
  • TV9.0

    Something Wilder

    1994 · 1 votes