Gene Wilder

Also Credited As:

Jerry Silberman
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Biography

Comedic actor Gene Wilder caught his first big break playing a small roll in the off-Broadway production of Arnold Wesker's "Roots" and followed quickly with his Broadway debut as the comic valet in "The Complaisant Lover" (both 1961), for which he won the Clement Derwent Award. His other Broadway credits included "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1963, with Kirk Douglas), "The White House" (1964, with Helen Hayes), and "Luv" (1966), but it …
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Job Title

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Music, Consultants & Advisors

Born

June 11, 1933

LATEST CREDITS

The Frisco Kid

Avram

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Dave

Stir Crazy

Skip Donahue

Murder in a Small Town

Larry "Cash" Carter

Something Wilder

Gene Bergman

Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx

Quackser Fortune

Start the Revolution Without Me

Claude/Philippe

Lady in Question

Larry "Cash" Carter

Haunted Honeymoon

Larry Abbot

Silver Streak

George Caldwell

The Woman in Red

Theodore Pierce

Funny About Love

Duffy Bergman

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Willy Wonka

Thursday's Game

Harry Evers

Young Frankenstein

Dr. Frankenstein

Hanky Panky

Michael Jordan

Another You

George/Abe Fielding

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

Sigerson Holmes

The World's Greatest Lover

Rudy Hickman--

Blazing Saddles

Jim

The Producers

Leo Bloom

Rhinoceros

Stanley

Face to Face With Connie Chung (05/07/90)

Actor

Hello Actors Studio

Himself

Marlo Thomas in Acts of Love -- and Other Comedies

Actor