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.
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Hollywood is now mourning the loss of comedic legend Gene Wilder, who died on 28 August from complications related to Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 83.
Millions knew Wilder for his collaborations with Brooks on The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.
The vast majority of Wilder’s work happened in the 1970s and 1980s, when he collaborated with comedy legends such as Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor. RIP#GeneWilder”. And Jim Carrey tweeted: “Gene Wilder was one of the funniest and sweetest energies ever to take a human form.
As far as experiences with Gene Wilder go, it seems like James Corden got the golden ticket.
“What a comic, what a amusing guy, all that stuff!”
Actor Rob Lowe recalled: “Gene Wilder as one of my earliest heroes”.
The next was The Producers, in which he played the hysterical Leo Bloom, an accountant lured into a money bilking scheme by a theatrical producer.
“I had never consciously tried to make anyone laugh in my life”, Wilder said. The actor best known for his role in Willy Wonk and the Chocolate Factory was reclusive in his last years due to an illness that affected his cognitive capacity. Movie 2, was his first turn since appearing on sitcom Will & Grace in 2003. A part in a 1963 production of Brecht’s play “Mother Courage” introduced him to Brooks, whose future wife Anne Bancroft was starring in the show, Variety said.
She wrote: “R.I.P to the incomparable Gene Wilder”.
An idea of Wilder’s own conception, pitched to director Mel Brooks on the set of Blazing Saddles. But Wilder did. More like an look you use for sarcasm. The icon started out his career on Broadway before joining the silver screen as a kidnapped undertaker in Bonnie and Clyde.
He was 83 and passed holding our hands with the same tenderness and love he exhibited as long as I can remember.
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Wilder is survived by his fourth wife Karen to whom he’d been married for 25 years. He married “Saturday Night Live” headliner Gilda Radner in 1984 and they costarred in two of his films: “The Woman in Red” and “Haunted Honeymoon”.
