1933-06-11 ( 91 years old ) in 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).
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Movies
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024-03-15
Love, Gilda
2018-04-18
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018-02-17
The Last Laugh
2016-04-18
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
2014-05-06
Private Screenings: Robert Osborne
2014-01-06
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
2013-05-20
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013-04-23
Role Model: Gene Wilder
2008-04-15
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
2008-03-31
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007-05-10
EXPO: Magic of the White City
2005-09-16
Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!
2003-01-01
The Making of 'The Producers'
2002-12-03
Back in the Saddle
2001-06-19
The Lady in Question
1999-12-12
Alice in Wonderland
1999-02-28
Murder in a Small Town
1999-01-10
Blacks and Jews
1997-07-29
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
1996-01-01
Another You
1991-07-26
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991-01-01
Funny About Love
1990-09-21
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
1989-05-12
Hello Actors Studio
1988-11-09
Haunted Honeymoon
1986-07-25
The Woman in Red
1984-08-15
Hanky Panky
1982-06-04
Baryshnikov in Hollywood
1982-04-21
Stir Crazy
1980-12-12
Sunday Lovers
1980-10-31
The Frisco Kid
1979-07-06
The World's Greatest Lover
1977-12-18
Silver Streak
1976-12-03
Young Frankenstein
1974-12-15
The Little Prince
1974-11-06
Thursday's Game
1974-04-14
Blazing Saddles
1974-02-07
Rhinoceros
1974-01-21
Acts of Love and Other Comedies
1973-03-15
The Trouble With People
1972-11-12
Scarecrow
1972-01-10
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1971-06-29
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
1970-06-13
Start the Revolution Without Me
1970-02-04
The Producers
1968-03-18
Bonnie and Clyde
1967-08-13
Death of a Salesman
1966-05-07
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