Gene Wilder
Acting
Born 1933-06-11
Died 2016-08-29
Милуоки, Висконсин, США
73 credits
Primetime Emmy Awards 1
Clarence Derwent Awards 1
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation 1
Nebula Award for Best Script 1
Awards
Nominated for 2 Academy Awards
Academy Awards 2 nominated
- 1975 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Nominated Young Frankenstein
- 1969 Best Supporting Actor Nominated The Producers
Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won
- 2003 Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Won Will & Grace
Clarence Derwent Awards 1 won
- — Clarence Derwent Awards Won
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation 1 won
- 1975 Best Dramatic Presentation Won Young Frankenstein
Nebula Award for Best Script 1 won
- 1975 Best Script Won Young Frankenstein
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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).
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Filmography
— top 60 of 73
Acting
60 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Ciné regards
The View
CBS News Sunday Morning
Will & Grace
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Wogan
The Defenders
Film '72
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
The Electric Company
The Frank Skinner Show
Legends
Bonnie and Clyde
Blazing Saddles
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Young Frankenstein
Please Turn the Page
The Woman in Red
The Producers
Stir Crazy
Something Wilder
Silver Streak
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
Alice in Wonderland
The Frisco Kid
Another You
Hanky Panky
Haunted Honeymoon
After They Were Famous
The Little Prince
Funny About Love
The World's Greatest Lover
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Start the Revolution Without Me
The Last Laugh
Wilder
Very Young Frankenstein
The DuPont Show of the Week
Remembering Gene Wilder
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Sunday Lovers
Thursday's Game
Love, Gilda
Rhinoceros
Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!
Murder in a Small Town
Private Screenings: Robert Osborne
Hello Actors Studio
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
Role Model: Gene Wilder
Inside the Actors Studio
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'
The Lady in Question
Writing
8 credits
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Young Frankenstein
The Woman in Red
Haunted Honeymoon
The World's Greatest Lover
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Murder in a Small Town
The Lady in Question
Directing
5 credits
The Woman in Red
Haunted Honeymoon
The World's Greatest Lover
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Sunday Lovers
Producing
1 credit
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