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Gene Wilder


Born
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, The United States
June 11, 1933

Died
August 29, 2016

Genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction


Gene Wilder was an American Emmy Award-winning and twice Academy Award-nominated stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, film director, and author.

Wilder began his career on stage, making his screen debut in the film Bonnie and Clyde in 1967. His first major role was as Leo Bloom in the 1968 film, The Producers. This was the first in a series of prolific collaborations with writer/director Mel Brooks, including 1974's Young Frankenstein, the script of which garnered the pair an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Wilder was known for his portrayal of Willy Wonka on 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 (19 ...more

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My French Whore
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The Woman Who Wouldn't
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Gilda's Disease
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Even Dogs Learn How to Swim
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“If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?”
― Gene Wilder
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“Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple”
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“As they say in Corsica... Goodbye”
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