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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).

Remembering Gene Wilder
as Self (archive footage)

Love, Gilda
as Self (archive footage)

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
as Self (archive footage)

The Last Laugh
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
as Self (archive footage)

Private Screenings: Robert Osborne
as Self (archive footage)

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
as Self (archive footage)

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as George / Skip Donahue (archive footage)
Gene Wilder: Be in the Moment, Today
as Himself

Role Model: Gene Wilder
as Self

Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
as Self

Hitler: The Comedy Years
as Leo Bloom (archive footage) (uncredited)

Legends
as Self

EXPO: Magic of the White City
as Narrator (voice)

Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!
as (archive footage)

The Making of 'The Producers'
as Self

After They Were Famous
as Self (archive footage)

Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'
as Self

Back in the Saddle
as Self

The Lady in Question
as Larry 'Cash' Carter

Alice in Wonderland
as Mock Turtle

Murder in a Small Town
as Cash Carter

Will & Grace
as Mr. Stein

The View
as Self

Blacks and Jews
as Self

Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
as Self

The Frank Skinner Show
as Self

Something Wilder
as Gene Bergman

Inside the Actors Studio
as Self

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest

Another You
as George / Abe Fielding
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Dr. Frankenstein (archive footage)

Funny About Love
as Duffy Bergman

See No Evil, Hear No Evil
as Dave Lyons

Hello Actors Studio
as Self

Haunted Honeymoon
as Larry Abbot

The Woman in Red
as Theodore Pierce

Hanky Panky
as Michael Jordon

Wogan
as Self

Baryshnikov in Hollywood
as Self - Special Appearence

Stir Crazy
as Skip Donahue

Sunday Lovers
as Skippy (sketch 'Skippy')

The Frisco Kid
as Avram

CBS News Sunday Morning
as Self - Guest

The World's Greatest Lover
as Rudy Valentine / Rudy Hickman
Please Turn the Page
as Self

Silver Streak
as George Caldwell

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
as Sigerson Holmes

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self

Young Frankenstein
as Dr. Frankenstein

The Little Prince
as The Fox

Thursday's Game
as Harry Evers

Blazing Saddles
as Jim

Rhinoceros
as Stanley

Acts of Love and Other Comedies
as Herb Waterman
The Trouble With People
as Ernie (Story 4)

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
as Dr. Doug Ross

Scarecrow
as Lord Ravensbane
Film '72
as Self

The Electric Company
as Letterman (voice)