Gene Wilder
Acting
Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman; June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016) was an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, singer-songwriter and author.
Wilder 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. Wilder 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). Wilder 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 – Wilder 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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Gene Wilder
Self (Archival Footage)
... 2023
Self (archive footage)
... 2018
Self
... 2016
... 2014
Self (archive footage)
... 2013
George / Skip Donahue (archive footage)
... 2013
... 2008
... 2008
... 2007
Self - Narrator
... 2005
(archive footage)
... 2003
... 2002
Self
... 2001
Larry 'Cash' Carter
... 1999
Mock Turtle
... 1999
Cash Carter
... 1999
Self
... 1997
... 1996
George / Abe Fielding
... 1991
Dr. Frankenstein (archive footage)
... 1991
Duffy Bergman
... 1990
Dave Lyons
... 1989
Self
... 1988
Larry Abbot
... 1986
Theodore Pierce
... 1984
Michael Jordon
... 1982
Self - Special Appearence
... 1982
Skip Donahue
... 1980
Skippy (sketch 'Skippy')
... 1980
Avram
... 1979
Rudy Valentine / Rudy Hickman
... 1977
George Caldwell
... 1976
Sigerson Holmes
... 1975
Frederick Frankenstein
... 1974
The Fox
... 1974
Harry Evers
... 1974
Jim
... 1974
Stanley
... 1974
Herb Waterman
... 1973
Ernie (Story 4)
... 1972
... 1972
Lord Ravensbane
... 1972
Willy Wonka
... 1971
Quackser Fortune
... 1970
Claude / Philippe
... 1970
Leo Bloom
... 1968
Eugene Grizzard
... 1967
Bernard
... 1966
Self (archive footage)