Acting · Милуоки, Висконсин, США · Born June 11, 1933
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).
MovieRemembering Gene Wilder
2024
as Self (archive footage)
MovieLove, Gilda
2018
as Self (archive footage)
MovieMel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Last Laugh
2016
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieBlaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
2014
as Self (archive footage)
MoviePrivate Screenings: Robert Osborne
2014
as Self (archive footage)
MovieMel Brooks: Make a Noise
2013
as Self (archive footage)
MovieRichard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
as George / Skip Donahue (archive footage)
Gene Wilder: Be in the Moment, Today
2010
as Himself
MovieRole Model: Gene Wilder
2008
as Self
MovieMarty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
2008
as Self
MovieHitler: The Comedy Years
2007
as Leo Bloom (archive footage) (uncredited)
TVLegends
2006
as Self
MovieEXPO: Magic of the White City
2005
as Narrator (voice)
MovieRichard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!
2003
as (archive footage)
MovieThe Making of 'The Producers'
2002
as Self
TVAfter They Were Famous
2002
as Self (archive footage)
MoviePure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'
2001
as Self
MovieBack in the Saddle
2001
as Self
MovieThe Lady in Question
1999
as Larry 'Cash' Carter
MovieAlice in Wonderland
1999
as Mock Turtle
MovieMurder in a Small Town
1999
as Cash Carter
TVWill & Grace
1998
as Mr. Stein
TVThe View
1997
as Self
MovieBlacks and Jews
1997
as Self
MovieMaking Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
1996
as Self
TVThe Frank Skinner Show
1995
as Self
TVSomething Wilder
1994
as Gene Bergman
TVInside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
TVLate Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
MovieAnother You
1991
as George / Abe Fielding
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
as Dr. Frankenstein (archive footage)
MovieFunny About Love
1990
as Duffy Bergman
MovieSee No Evil, Hear No Evil
1989
as Dave Lyons
MovieHello Actors Studio
1988
as Self
MovieHaunted Honeymoon
1986
as Larry Abbot
MovieThe Woman in Red
1984
as Theodore Pierce
MovieHanky Panky
1982
as Michael Jordon
TVWogan
1982
as Self
MovieBaryshnikov in Hollywood
1982
as Self - Special Appearence
MovieStir Crazy
1980
as Skip Donahue
MovieSunday Lovers
1980
as Skippy (sketch 'Skippy')
MovieThe Frisco Kid
1979
as Avram
TVCBS News Sunday Morning
1979
as Self - Guest
TVCiné regards
1978
as Self
MovieThe World's Greatest Lover
1977
as Rudy Valentine / Rudy Hickman
Please Turn the Page
1977
as Self
MovieSilver Streak
1976
as George Caldwell
MovieThe Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
1975
as Sigerson Holmes
TVLes Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
MovieYoung Frankenstein
1974
as Dr. Frankenstein
MovieThe Little Prince
1974
as The Fox
MovieThursday's Game
1974
as Harry Evers
MovieBlazing Saddles
1974
as Jim
MovieRhinoceros
1974
as Stanley
MovieActs of Love and Other Comedies
1973
as Herb Waterman
The Trouble With People
1972
as Ernie (Story 4)
MovieEverything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
1972
as Dr. Doug Ross
MovieScarecrow
1972
as Lord Ravensbane
Film '72
1971
as Self
TVThe Electric Company
1971
as Letterman (voice)
MovieWilly Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1971
as Willy Wonka
MovieQuackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
1970
as Quackser Fortune
MovieStart the Revolution Without Me
1970
as Claude / Philippe
MovieThe Producers
1968
as Leo Bloom
MovieBonnie and Clyde
1967
as Eugene Grizzard
MovieDeath of a Salesman
1966
as Bernard
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
TVThe DuPont Show of the Week
1961
as Reporter
TVThe Defenders
1961
as Waiter
Wilder
as Self (archive footage)
