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Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman; June 11, 1933) is an American stage and screen actor, director, screenwriter, author and activist.
Wilder began his career on stage, making 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 Young Frankenstein, a script 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 (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). Wilder has directed and written several of his films, including The Woman in Red (1984).
Actors: Jess Platt (miscellaneous crew), Rick Parker (miscellaneous crew), Michael Jaffe (producer), Gilda Radner (writer), Merv Griffin (producer), Lynn Josephson Delaney (miscellaneous crew), Paul Dixon (editor), Marcia Bennett (actress), Ernest Chambers (producer), Howard Braunstein (producer), Karen Robinson (actress), Gilda Radner (actress), George Wyner (actor), Jane Luk (actress), Pamela Hackwell (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: The story of comedienne 'Gilda Radner' (qv), based on her autobiography. Covered are her years as part of the original cast of _"Saturday Night Live" (1975)_ (qv), her marriage to actor/director 'Gene Wilder' (qv) and her battle with ovarian cancer, to which she succumbed in 1989.
Keywords: based-on-book, character-name-in-title, televisionActors: Jerry Maren (actor), Jim Dooley (composer), Lorielle New (actress), Verne Troyer (actor), Phil Fondacaro (actor), Jessica Jordan (miscellaneous crew), Robert Romanus (actor), Kirk Ward (actor), Joe Gieb (actor), Andy Berman (writer), Andy Berman (director), Jimmy Briscoe (actor), Sascha Penn (producer), Jayna Schlegel (producer), Scilla Andreen (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Short,