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). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Remembering Gene Wilder as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Love, Gilda as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Mel Brooks: Unwrapped as Self (archive footage)
- 2016 · The Last Laugh as Self
- 2014 · Private Screenings: Robert Osborne as Self
- 2013 · Mel Brooks: Make a Noise as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic as George / Skip Donahue (archive footage)
- 2012 · Honest Trailers as Willy Wonka (archive footage)
- 2008 · Role Model: Gene Wilder as Self
- 2008 · Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation as Self
- 2007 · Hitler: The Comedy Years as Leo Bloom (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2006 · Legends as Self
- 2005 · EXPO: Magic of the White City as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!! as (archive footage)
- 2002 · The Making of 'The Producers' as Self
- 2002 · After They Were Famous as Self (archive footage)
- 2001 · Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' as Self
- 2001 · Back in the Saddle as Self
- 1999 · The Lady in Question as Larry 'Cash' Carter
- 1999 · Alice in Wonderland as Mock Turtle
- 1999 · Murder in a Small Town as Cash Carter
- 1998 · Will & Grace as Mr. Stein
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · Blacks and Jews as Self
- 1996 · Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein as Self
- 1995 · The Frank Skinner Show as Self
- 1994 · Something Wilder as Gene Bergman
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1991 · Another You as George / Abe Fielding
- 1991 · Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Dr. Frankenstein (archive footage)
- 1990 · Funny About Love as Duffy Bergman
- 1989 · See No Evil, Hear No Evil as Dave Lyons
- 1988 · Hello Actors Studio as Self
- 1986 · Haunted Honeymoon as Larry Abbot
- 1984 · The Woman in Red as Theodore Pierce
- 1982 · Hanky Panky as Michael Jordon
- 1982 · Wogan as Self
- 1982 · Baryshnikov in Hollywood as Self - Special Appearence
- 1980 · Stir Crazy as Skip Donahue
- 1980 · Sunday Lovers as Skippy (sketch 'Skippy')
- 1979 · The Frisco Kid as Avram
- 1979 · CBS News Sunday Morning as Self - Guest
- 1977 · The World's Greatest Lover as Rudy Valentine / Rudy Hickman
- 1977 · Bitte umblättern as Self
- 1976 · Silver Streak as George Caldwell
- 1975 · The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother as Sigerson Holmes
- 1975 · Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- 1974 · Young Frankenstein as Frederick Frankenstein
- 1974 · The Little Prince as The Fox
- 1974 · Thursday's Game as Harry Evers
- 1974 · Blazing Saddles as Jim
- 1974 · Rhinoceros as Stanley
- 1973 · Acts of Love and Other Comedies as Herb Waterman
- 1972 · The Trouble With People as Ernie (Story 4)
- 1972 · Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask as Dr. Doug Ross
- 1972 · Scarecrow as Lord Ravensbane
- 1971 · The Electric Company as
- 1971 · Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory as Willy Wonka
- 1970 · Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx as Quackser Fortune
- 1970 · Start the Revolution Without Me as Claude / Philippe
- 1968 · The Producers as Leo Bloom
- 1967 · Bonnie and Clyde as Eugene Grizzard
- 1966 · Death of a Salesman as Bernard
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1961 · The DuPont Show of the Week as Reporter
- 1961 · The DuPont Show of the Week as Muller
- 1961 · The Defenders as Waiter
- Future · Wilder as Self (archive footage)