Gene Wilder
Gender: Male
Born: 11th June 1933 (currently 78 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Electric Company, Something Wilder, Will & Grace, Armstrong Circle Theatre
Movies: Alice in Wonderland, Another You, Blazing Saddles, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask), See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Silver Streak, Start the Revolution Without Me, Stir Crazy, The Frisco Kid, The Producers, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Young Frankenstein, Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx, Haunted Honeymoon, Expo: Magic of the White City, The Woman in Red, The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, Hanky Panky, The World's Greatest Lover, Broadway Theatre Archive: Scarecrow, Rhinoceros, The Little Prince, Bonnie and Clyde, Funny About Love, Hollywood Singing and Dancing: The 1970s, Sunday Lovers, The Lady in Question, Thursday's Game
Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman; June 11, 1933) is an American stage and screen actor, director, screenwriter, author and activist.
Wilder began his career on stage, making his screen debut in the TV series Armstrong Circle Theatre in 1962. His first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1968 film The Producers 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 Young Frankenstein, a script which garnered the pair an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Wilder is known for his 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). Wilder has directed and written several of his films, including The Woman in Red (1984).
He was married to actress Gilda Radner. Her 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.
Since his most recent
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