Acting
Gene Wilder
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).
Filmography
Wilder
Film · 2026
Remembering Gene Wilder
Film · 2024
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Film · 2018
Love, Gilda
Film · 2018
The Last Laugh
Film · 2016
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
Film · 2014
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Film · 2013
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Film · 2013
Gene Wilder: Be in the Moment, Today
Film · 2010
Role Model: Gene Wilder
Film · 2008
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
Film · 2008
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Film · 2007
Legends
Series · 2006
EXPO: Magic of the White City
Film · 2005
Parkinson
Series · 2004
Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!
Film · 2003
The Making of 'The Producers'
Film · 2002
After They Were Famous
Series · 2002
Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'
Film · 2001
Back in the Saddle
Film · 2001
Alice in Wonderland
Film · 1999
Murder in a Small Town
Film · 1999
The Lady in Question
Film · 1999
Will & Grace
Series · 1998
Blacks and Jews
Film · 1997
The View
Series · 1997
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
Film · 1996
The Frank Skinner Show
Series · 1995
Inside the Actors Studio
Series · 1994
Something Wilder
Series · 1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Series · 1993
Another You
Film · 1991
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Film · 1991
A Party For Richard Pryor
Film · 1991
Funny About Love
Film · 1990
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Film · 1989
Hello Actors Studio
Film · 1988
Haunted Honeymoon
Film · 1986
The Woman in Red
Film · 1984
Hanky Panky
Film · 1982
Baryshnikov in Hollywood
Film · 1982
Wogan
Series · 1982
Stir Crazy
Film · 1980
Sunday Lovers
Film · 1980
The Frisco Kid
Film · 1979
CBS News Sunday Morning
Series · 1979
Ciné regards
Series · 1978
The World's Greatest Lover
Film · 1977
Please Turn the Page
Series · 1977
Silver Streak
Film · 1976
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Film · 1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Series · 1975
Young Frankenstein
Film · 1974
Blazing Saddles
Film · 1974
The Little Prince
Film · 1974
Rhinoceros
Film · 1974
Thursday's Game
Film · 1974
Acts of Love and Other Comedies
Film · 1973
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
Film · 1972
The Trouble With People
Film · 1972
Scarecrow
Film · 1972
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Film · 1971
The Electric Company
Series · 1971
Film '72
Series · 1971
Start the Revolution Without Me
Film · 1970
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
Film · 1970
The Producers
Film · 1968
Bonnie and Clyde
Film · 1967
Death of a Salesman
Film · 1966
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Series · 1962
The Defenders
Series · 1961
The DuPont Show of the Week
Series · 1961
The DuPont Show of the Week
Series · 1961