Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
6/11/1933
Place of Birth
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Also Known As
Jerome SilbermanJerry SilbermanΖερόμ Ζίλμπερμαν
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 for Best Supporting Actor. This was the first in a series of collaborations with writer/director Mel...
Known For
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
as Willy Wonka
Love, Gilda
as Self (archive footage)
Blazing Saddles
as Jim
The Woman in Red
as Theodore Pierce
Another You
as George / Abe Fielding
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
as Dave Lyons
The Little Prince
as The Fox
Silver Streak
as George Caldwell
Alice in Wonderland
as Mock Turtle
Hanky Panky
as Michael Jordon
Haunted Honeymoon
as Larry Abbot
The Frisco Kid
as Avram
Hitler: The Comedy Years
as Leo Bloom (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
as Sigerson Holmes
Young Frankenstein
as Dr. Frankenstein
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
as Quackser Fortune
Sunday Lovers
as Skippy (sketch 'Skippy')
Bonnie and Clyde
as Eugene Grizzard
Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!
as (archive footage)
Murder in a Small Town
as Cash Carter