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Gene Wilder

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Gene Wilder

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Also known as Jerome Silberman

American actor (1933–2016)

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Gene Wilder (1933–2016) was an American actor, author, director, and screenwriter. His professional career spanned from 1961 until his death in 2016. He is associated with works including *Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory*, *Young Frankenstein*, *The Woman in Red*, *Kiss Me Like a Stranger*, and *Mo︠i︡a fran︠t︡suzska︠i︡a shl︠i︡ushka*.

Wilder had one child. His musical contributions are often tagged with genres such as Soundtrack, comedy, and 70s. He is frequently compared to artists like Gene Kelly, Tim Curry, The Muppets, Richard O'Brien, and the La La Land Cast.

Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1933-06-11
Died
2016-08-29
Works
11

Top works

  • Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  • The woman in red
  • Kiss Me Like a Stranger
  • Mo︠i︡a fran︠t︡suzska︠i︡a shl︠i︡ushka
  • Young Frankenstein

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1933-06-11
Active to
2016-08-29
actorauthordirectorscreenwriter
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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
92,611
Total plays
437,814

Tags

SoundtrackcomedyComedians70severything

Similar artists

Gene KellyTim CurryThe MuppetsRichard O'BrienLa La Land Cast

Jerome Silberman (June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016), known professionally as Gene Wilder, was an American stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, film director, and author. "Pure Imagination" is a song from the 1971 movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. It was written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley specifically for the movie. It was sung by Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka). Wilder began his career on stage, and made his screen debut in the TV-series Armstrong Circle Theatre in 1962. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Gene+Wilder">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,776x

  2. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,955x

  3. The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis

    · 1988 · cited 15,808x

  4. CheckM: assessing the quality of microbial genomes recovered from isolates, single cells, and metagenomes

    · 2015 · cited 11,998x

  5. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

    · 2020 · cited 10,224x

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Quotes

  • “[On Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory] I thought the script was very good, but something was missing. I wanted to come out with a cane, come down slowly, have it stick into one of the bricks, get up, fall over, roll around, and they all laugh and applaud. The director asked, ‘what do you want to do that for?’ I said from that time on, no one will know if I’m lying or telling the truth.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman; June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016) was an American actor, author, comedian, writer and filmmaker. He was mainly known for his comedic roles, including his collaborations with Mel Brooks on the films The Producers (1967), Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein (both 1974), and with Richard Pryor in the films Silver Streak (1976), Stir Crazy (1980), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) and Another You (1991), as well as his portrayal of Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971).

He began his career on stage, and made his screen debut in an episode of the television series The Play of the Week in 1961. His first film role was that of a hostage in the 1967 motion picture Bonnie and Clyde. His first major film role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1967 film The Producers, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. It was the first in a series of collaborations with writer/director Mel Brooks, including Young Frankenstein, which Wilder co-wrote, garnering the pair an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. He also starred in Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972).

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