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Jerome Silberman, known professionally as Gene Wilder (born June 11, 1933), is an American stage and screen comic actor, 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, which Wilder co-wrote, garnering 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).
Gene Wilder on Willy Wonka Remake, Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks, and more
Gene Wilder Rare Interview (Merv Griffin Show 1979)
Gene Wilder Flips His Shit
Gene Wilder
Pure Imagination - Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka
Gene Wilder's best scene
Gene Wilder on The Truth | Blank on Blank | PBS Digital Studios
Gene Wilder on first working with Richard Pryor
Gene Wilder on InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse
Young Frankenstein: Writing with Gene Wilder
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,Willy Wonka:
[Spoken]
Ladies and gentlemen
Boys and girls:
The Chocolate Factory
Hold your breath
Make a wish
Count to three
[Sung]
Come with me
And you'll be
In a world of
Pure imagination
Take a look
And you'll see
Into your imagination
We'll begin
With a spin
Traveling in
The world of my creation
What we'll see
Will defy
Explanation
If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Wanta change the world?
There's nothing
To it
There is no
Life I know
To compare with
Pure imagination
Living there
You'll be free
If you truly wish to be
If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Wanta change the world?
There's nothing
To it
There is no
Life I know
To compare with
Pure imagination
Living there
You'll be free
If you truly
Wish to be