Gene Wilder
Actor, Film actor
1933 –
Who is Gene Wilder?
Gene Wilder is a retired American stage and screen actor, character actor, comedian, director, screenwriter, author and activist.
Wilder began his career on stage, and made his screen debut in the TV-series Armstrong Circle Theatre in 1962. 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 1968 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, the latter of 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 and for his four films with Richard Pryor: Silver Streak, Stir Crazy, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, and Another You. Wilder has directed and written several of his films, including The Woman in Red.
His third wife was actress Gilda Radner, with whom he starred in three films. 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.
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- Born
- Jun 11, 1933
Milwaukee - Also known as
- Jerome Silberman
- Jerry Silberman
- Parents
- Spouses
- Mary Mercier
(1960/07/22 - 1965) - Mary Joan Schutz
(1967/10/27 - 1980/11/24) - Karen Boyer
(1991/09/08 - ) - Gilda Radner
(1984/09/14 - 1989/05/20)
- Mary Mercier
- Children
- Religion
- Atheism
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Russian American
- Jewish American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Iowa
- Washington High School
- HB Studio
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on July 23, 2013
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