“He simply couldn’t bear the idea of one less smile in the world”, he continued.
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“We understand for all the emotional and physical challenges this situation presented we have been among the lucky ones this illness-pirate”, Pearlman said.
The actor died on Sunday in Stamford, Connecticut, due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease, according to his family. His interest in comedy began when as a six-year-old he began devising skits to keep his mother amused after she had a heart attack. He was a master in playing hyperventilating characters, be it biking Broadway in “The Producers” or reanimate a monster in “Young Frankenstein“.
For all those who have grown up watching some classics will remember Gene Wilder for his remarkable role as Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Click on our gallery for some of the most memorable life lessons from Wilder’s Willy Wonka. Remembering the fallen actor, Alice said, “I count working with Gene Wilder on his TV sitcom Something Wilder to be one of the most precious memories of my entire career”.
Corden shared: “I sent him an email, asking if he’d come and do a bit and he sent me an email back where he, in the history of people saying no to things, it couldn’t have been nicer”.
On-screen legend Gene Wilder has died at 83, leaving a legacy for Gen X and Millennials alike.
Wilder was nominated twice for an Oscar: Once for portraying “Leopold Bloom” opposite Zero Mostel as “Max Bialystock” in THE PRODUCERS; the second time for co-writing YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN with Brooks. He blessed every film we did together with his special magic and he blessed my life with his friendship.
Wilder had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1989. I filmed my favorite scene that same day – when I finally get my comeuppance and go down the garbage shoot.
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Actor Russell Crowe said he saw Blazing Saddles seven times at the cinema with his school friends, adding: “Gene Wilder you were a genius”.
