Gene Wilder
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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
Credits
Blazing Saddles (1974)
as Jim
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
as Willy Wonka
Young Frankenstein (1974)
as Dr. Frankenstein
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
as Eugene Grizzard
The Woman in Red (1984)
as Theodore Pierce
The Producers (1968)
as Leo Bloom
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
as Dave Lyons
Stir Crazy (1980)
as Skip Donahue
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
as Dr. Doug Ross
Alice in Wonderland (1999)
as Mock Turtle
Silver Streak (1976)
as George Caldwell
Another You (1991)
as George / Abe Fielding
The Little Prince (1974)
as The Fox
Hanky Panky (1982)
as Michael Jordon
The Frisco Kid (1979)
as Avram
Love, Gilda (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
as Sigerson Holmes
Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
as Larry Abbot
The World's Greatest Lover (1977)
as Rudy Valentine / Rudy Hickman
Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
as Claude / Philippe
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991)
as Dr. Frankenstein (archive footage)
The Last Laugh (2016)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rhinoceros (1974)
as Stanley
Funny About Love (1990)
as Duffy Bergman
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (2013)
as George / Skip Donahue (archive footage)
Hello Actors Studio (1988)
as Self
Remembering Gene Wilder (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
Sunday Lovers (1980)
as Skippy (sketch 'Skippy')
Hitler: The Comedy Years (2007)
as Leo Bloom (archive footage) (uncredited)
Thursday's Game (1974)
as Harry Evers
Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!! (2003)
as (archive footage)
Death of a Salesman (1966)
as Bernard
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation (2008)
as Self
Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' (2001)
as Self
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein (1996)
as Self
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970)
as Quackser Fortune
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise (2013)
as Self (archive footage)
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
Blacks and Jews (1997)
as Self
EXPO: Magic of the White City (2005)
as Narrator (voice)
Murder in a Small Town (1999)
as Cash Carter
The Trouble With People (1972)
as Ernie (Story 4)
The Lady in Question (1999)
as Larry 'Cash' Carter
Wilder (—)
as Self (archive footage)
Private Screenings: Robert Osborne (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
Scarecrow (1972)
as Lord Ravensbane
Role Model: Gene Wilder (2008)
as Self
Baryshnikov in Hollywood (1982)
as Self - Special Appearence
The Making of 'The Producers' (2002)
as Self
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
Acts of Love and Other Comedies (1973)
as Herb Waterman
Back in the Saddle (2001)
as Self
Gene Wilder: Be in the Moment, Today (2010)
as Himself