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, Wilders 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 1974s 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 Allens 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 Gildas 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 Wouldnt (2008), and Something to Remember You By (2013).From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Willy Wonka
Film 1971
Eugene Grizzard
Film 1967
Self
Film 1996
Theodore Pierce
Film 1984
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Film 2003
Self (archive footage)
Film 2013
The Fox
Film 1974
Avram
Film 1979
Leo Bloom (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 2007
Quackser Fortune
Film 1970
Dr. Frankenstein (archive footage)
Film 1991
Self (archive footage)
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Narrator (voice)
Film 2005
Self
Film 2016
Self
Film 2008
Self
Film 1988
Ernie (Story 4)
Film 1972
Self - Special Appearence
Film 1982
Self (archive footage)
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Self
Film 2008
Herb Waterman
Film 1973
Self (archive footage)
Film 2018
Self
Film 2001
George / Skip Donahue (archive footage)
Film 2013
Self (archive footage)
Film 2018
Self
Film 2002
Self
Film 2001
Self
Film 1997
Self
Film 2014
Self (archive footage)
Film 2014
Self
Tv 1994
Self
Tv 1997
Self - Guest
Tv 1979
Tv 1971
Self - Guest
Tv 1993
Self
Tv 1995
Gene Bergman
Tv 1994
Self
Tv 1982
Self
Tv 1962
Self (archive footage)
Tv 2002
Willy Wonka (archive footage)
Tv 2012
Self
Tv 1975
Self
Tv 2006
Self
Tv 1977