Gene Wilder
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1933-06-11
Deathday 2016-08-29 (83 years old)
Place of Birth Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Also Known As Jerome Silberman, Jerry Silberman, Ζερόμ Ζίλμπερμαν, Τζιν Γουάιλντερ
Gene Wilder
Biography
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
Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as George / Skip Donahue (archive footage)
as Willy Wonka (archive footage)
as Self
as Leo Bloom (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as (archive footage)
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Larry 'Cash' Carter
as Mock Turtle
as Cash Carter
as Mr. Stein
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Gene Bergman
as Self
as Self - Guest
as George / Abe Fielding
as Dr. Frankenstein (archive footage)
as Duffy Bergman
as Dave Lyons
as Self
as Larry Abbot
as Theodore Pierce
as Michael Jordon
as Self - Special Appearence
as Self
as Skip Donahue
as Skippy (sketch 'Skippy')
as Avram
as Self - Guest
as Rudy Valentine / Rudy Hickman
as Self
as George Caldwell
as Sigerson Holmes
as Self
as Frederick Frankenstein
as The Fox
as Harry Evers
as Jim
as Stanley
as Herb Waterman
as Ernie (Story 4)
as Lord Ravensbane
as Willy Wonka
as Quackser Fortune
as Claude / Philippe
as Leo Bloom
as Eugene Grizzard
as Bernard
as Reporter
as Muller
as Waiter
Writer
as Novel
as Writer
as Writer
as Screenplay
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer
as Screenplay
as Screenstory
Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
Producer
as Producer