Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman; June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016) was an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, singer-songwriter, and author.
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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Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q191966
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Filmography (Movies)
Remembering Gene Wilder
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:15/03/2024
Love, Gilda
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:18/04/2018
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:17/02/2018
The Last Laugh
Character:Self
Release Date:18/04/2016
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:06/05/2014
Private Screenings: Robert Osborne
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:06/01/2014
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:20/05/2013
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Character:George / Skip Donahue (archive footage)
Release Date:23/04/2013
Gene Wilder: Be in the Moment, Today
Character:Himself
Release Date:09/01/2010
Role Model: Gene Wilder
Character:Self
Release Date:15/04/2008
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
Character:Self
Release Date:31/03/2008
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Character:Leo Bloom (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:10/05/2007
EXPO: Magic of the White City
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:16/09/2005
Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/2003
The Making of 'The Producers'
Character:Self
Release Date:03/12/2002
Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'
Character:Self
Release Date:13/11/2001
Back in the Saddle
Character:Self
Release Date:19/06/2001
The Lady in Question
Character:Larry 'Cash' Carter
Release Date:12/12/1999
Alice in Wonderland
Character:Mock Turtle
Release Date:28/02/1999
Murder in a Small Town
Character:Cash Carter
Release Date:10/01/1999
Blacks and Jews
Character:Self
Release Date:29/07/1997
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1996
Another You
Character:George / Abe Fielding
Release Date:26/07/1991
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Character:Dr. Frankenstein (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1991
Funny About Love
Character:Duffy Bergman
Release Date:21/09/1990
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Character:Dave Lyons
Release Date:12/05/1989
Hello Actors Studio
Character:Self
Release Date:09/11/1988
Haunted Honeymoon
Character:Larry Abbot
Release Date:25/07/1986
The Woman in Red
Character:Theodore Pierce
Release Date:15/08/1984
Hanky Panky
Character:Michael Jordon
Release Date:04/06/1982
Baryshnikov in Hollywood
Character:Self - Special Appearence
Release Date:21/04/1982
Stir Crazy
Character:Skip Donahue
Release Date:12/12/1980
Sunday Lovers
Character:Skippy (sketch 'Skippy')
Release Date:31/10/1980
The Frisco Kid
Character:Avram
Release Date:06/07/1979
The World's Greatest Lover
Character:Rudy Valentine / Rudy Hickman
Release Date:18/12/1977
Silver Streak
Character:George Caldwell
Release Date:03/12/1976
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Character:Sigerson Holmes
Release Date:14/12/1975
Young Frankenstein
Character:Dr. Frankenstein
Release Date:15/12/1974
The Little Prince
Character:The Fox
Release Date:06/11/1974
Thursday's Game
Character:Harry Evers
Release Date:14/04/1974
Blazing Saddles
Character:Jim
Release Date:07/02/1974
Rhinoceros
Character:Stanley
Release Date:21/01/1974
Acts of Love and Other Comedies
Character:Herb Waterman
Release Date:16/03/1973
The Trouble With People
Character:Ernie (Story 4)
Release Date:12/11/1972
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
Character:Dr. Doug Ross
Release Date:06/08/1972
Scarecrow
Character:Lord Ravensbane
Release Date:10/01/1972
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Character:Willy Wonka
Release Date:29/06/1971
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
Character:Quackser Fortune
Release Date:13/06/1970
Start the Revolution Without Me
Character:Claude / Philippe
Release Date:04/02/1970
The Producers
Character:Leo Bloom
Release Date:18/03/1968
Bonnie and Clyde
Character:Eugene Grizzard
Release Date:13/08/1967
Death of a Salesman
Character:Bernard
Release Date:07/05/1966
Television Appearances
Legends
Character:Self
After They Were Famous
Character:Self (archive footage)
Will & Grace
Character:Mr. Stein
The View
Character:Self
The Frank Skinner Show
Character:Self
Something Wilder
Character:Gene Bergman
Inside the Actors Studio
Character:Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Character:Self - Guest
Wogan
Character:Self
CBS News Sunday Morning
Character:Self - Guest
Please Turn the Page
Character:Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character:Self
The Electric Company
Character:
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character:Self
The DuPont Show of the Week
Character:Muller
The DuPont Show of the Week
Character:Reporter
The Defenders
Character:Waiter
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