Acting
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).
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · TV
The View
1997 · TV
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979 · TV
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · TV
Ciné regards
1978 · TV
Will & Grace
1998 · TV
Wogan
1982 · TV
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 · TV
The Defenders
1961 · TV
The Electric Company
1971 · TV
The Frank Skinner Show
1995 · TV
Legends
2006 · TV
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1971 · Movie
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
1989 · Movie
Bonnie and Clyde
1967 · Movie
Young Frankenstein
1974 · Movie
Blazing Saddles
1974 · Movie
Something Wilder
1994 · TV
The DuPont Show of the Week
1961 · TV
The Woman in Red
1984 · Movie
Alice in Wonderland
1999 · Movie
The Producers
1968 · Movie
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
1972 · Movie
Silver Streak
1976 · Movie
After They Were Famous
2002 · TV
Death of a Salesman
1966 · Movie
Stir Crazy
1980 · Movie
The World's Greatest Lover
1977 · Movie
Haunted Honeymoon
1986 · Movie
The Little Prince
1974 · Movie
Funny About Love
1990 · Movie
Another You
1991 · Movie
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · TV
The Last Laugh
2016 · Movie
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024 · Movie
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
1975 · Movie
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 · Movie
Murder in a Small Town
1999 · Movie
Hello Actors Studio
1988 · Movie
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
2013 · Movie
Hanky Panky
1982 · Movie
The Frisco Kid
1979 · Movie
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007 · Movie
Sunday Lovers
1980 · Movie
Private Screenings: Robert Osborne
2014 · Movie
Start the Revolution Without Me
1970 · Movie
Thursday's Game
1974 · Movie
Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!
2003 · Movie
Role Model: Gene Wilder
2008 · Movie
Blacks and Jews
1997 · Movie
Love, Gilda
2018 · Movie
Baryshnikov in Hollywood
1982 · Movie
The Making of 'The Producers'
2002 · Movie
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018 · Movie
The Lady in Question
1999 · Movie
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
2008 · Movie
Rhinoceros
1974 · Movie
Acts of Love and Other Comedies
1973 · Movie
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
1970 · Movie
Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'
2001 · Movie
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
1996 · Movie
Back in the Saddle
2001 · Movie
EXPO: Magic of the White City
2005 · Movie
Scarecrow
1972 · Movie
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
2014 · Movie
