Gene Wilder
Acting
Born: June 11, 1933 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Died: August 29, 2016 (aged 83)
Highest Rated
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).
Known for
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1971
Young Frankenstein
1974
Blazing Saddles
1974
Bonnie and Clyde
1967
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
1989
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
1972
The Producers
1968
Will & Grace
1998
The Woman in Red
1984
Stir Crazy
1980
Alice in Wonderland
1999
Silver Streak
1976
Photos (7)
Movies (33)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Willy Wonka
Young Frankenstein
Dr. Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
Jim
Bonnie and Clyde
Eugene Grizzard
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Dave Lyons
Alice in Wonderland
Mock Turtle
Stir Crazy
Skip Donahue
The Producers
Leo Bloom
Silver Streak
George Caldwell
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
Dr. Doug Ross
The Woman in Red
Theodore Pierce
Another You
George / Abe Fielding
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Sigerson Holmes
Haunted Honeymoon
Larry Abbot
The Frisco Kid
Avram
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
George / Skip Donahue (archive footage)
The Little Prince
The Fox
The World's Greatest Lover
Rudy Valentine / Rudy Hickman
Hanky Panky
Michael Jordon
Funny About Love
Duffy Bergman
Thursday's Game
Harry Evers
Start the Revolution Without Me
Claude / Philippe
Sunday Lovers
Skippy (sketch 'Skippy')
Murder in a Small Town
Cash Carter
Rhinoceros
Stanley
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Leo Bloom (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!
(archive footage)
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
Quackser Fortune
Death of a Salesman
Bernard
The Lady in Question
Larry 'Cash' Carter
Acts of Love and Other Comedies
Herb Waterman
EXPO: Magic of the White City
Narrator (voice)
Scarecrow
Lord Ravensbane
TV Shows (6)
Will & Grace
Mr. Stein · 2 eps
The Defenders
Waiter · 1 eps
The Electric Company
Letterman (voice) · 780 eps
The DuPont Show of the Week
Reporter · 1 eps
The DuPont Show of the Week
Muller · 1 eps
Something Wilder
Gene Bergman · 18 eps
Self / Appearances (27)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 1 eps
Ciné regards
Self · 1 eps
The View
Self · 1 eps
CBS News Sunday Morning
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Wogan
Self · 1 eps
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · 2 eps
The Frank Skinner Show
Self · 1 eps
Legends
Self · 1 eps
After They Were Famous
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
Love, Gilda
Self (archive footage)
The Last Laugh
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Remembering Gene Wilder
Self (archive footage)
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · 1 eps
Private Screenings: Robert Osborne
Self (archive footage)
Hello Actors Studio
Self
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Self (archive footage)
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
Self
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Self (archive footage)
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
Self
Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'
Self
Baryshnikov in Hollywood
Self - Special Appearence
Role Model: Gene Wilder
Self
Blacks and Jews
Self
Back in the Saddle
Self
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
Self (archive footage)
The Making of 'The Producers'
Self
Upcoming (1)
Directing (5)
Writing (9)
Young Frankenstein
Screenplay
Young Frankenstein
Screenstory
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Screenplay
The Woman in Red
Writer
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Writer
Haunted Honeymoon
Writer
The World's Greatest Lover
Writer
Murder in a Small Town
Writer
The Lady in Question
Writer