Actor
Gene Wilder
Biography

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 ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- Remembering Gene Wilder | Self (archive footage)
2018 -- Love, Gilda | Self (archive footage)
2018 -- Mel Brooks: Unwrapped | Self (archive footage)
2016 -- The Last Laugh | Self
2014 -- Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West | Self (archive footage)
2014 -- Private Screenings: Robert Osborne | Self
2013 -- Mel Brooks: Make a Noise | Self (archive footage)
2013 -- Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic | George / Skip Donahue (archive footage)
2008 -- Role Model: Gene Wilder | Self
2008 -- Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation | Self
2007 -- Hitler: The Comedy Years | Leo Bloom (archive footage) (uncredited)
2005 -- EXPO: Magic of the White City | Narrator (voice)
2003 -- Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!! | (archive footage)
2002 -- The Making of 'The Producers' | Self
2001 -- Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' | Self
2001 -- Back in the Saddle | Self
1999 -- The Lady in Question | Larry 'Cash' Carter
1999 -- Alice in Wonderland | Mock Turtle
1999 -- Murder in a Small Town | Cash Carter
1997 -- Blacks and Jews | Self
1996 -- Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein | Self
1991 -- Another You | George / Abe Fielding
1991 -- Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook | Dr. Frankenstein (archive footage)
1990 -- Funny About Love | Duffy Bergman
1989 -- See No Evil, Hear No Evil | Dave Lyons
1988 -- Hello Actors Studio | Self
1986 -- Haunted Honeymoon | Larry Abbot
1984 -- The Woman in Red | Theodore Pierce
1982 -- Hanky Panky | Michael Jordon
1982 -- Baryshnikov in Hollywood | Self - Special Appearence
1980 -- Stir Crazy | Skip Donahue
1980 -- Sunday Lovers | Skippy (sketch 'Skippy')
1979 -- The Frisco Kid | Avram
1977 -- The World's Greatest Lover | Rudy Valentine / Rudy Hickman
1976 -- Silver Streak | George Caldwell
1975 -- The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother | Sigerson Holmes
1974 -- Young Frankenstein | Frederick Frankenstein
1974 -- The Little Prince | The Fox
1974 -- Thursday's Game | Harry Evers
1974 -- Blazing Saddles | Jim
1974 -- Rhinoceros | Stanley
1973 -- Acts of Love and Other Comedies | Herb Waterman
1972 -- The Trouble With People | Ernie (Story 4)
1972 -- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask | Dr. Doug Ross
1972 -- Scarecrow | Lord Ravensbane
1971 -- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | Willy Wonka
1970 -- Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx | Quackser Fortune
1970 -- Start the Revolution Without Me | Claude / Philippe
1968 -- The Producers | Leo Bloom
1967 -- Bonnie and Clyde | Eugene Grizzard
1966 -- Death of a Salesman | Bernard
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