Gene Wilder

Biography

Born 06/11/1933

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...
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Filmography

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Awards

In 2003, received Emmy for Outstanding Actor in a comedy Series
In 2001, received Las Vegas Film Critics Society William Holden Lifetime Achievement Award
In 1962, received Clarence Derwent Award

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Production Photos

Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

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Highlights

In 2000, Disclosed a 1999 diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
In 1996, Made London stage debut in Neil Simon's "Laughter on the 23rd Floor"
In 1991, Last film to date with Pryor, "Another You"

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Family & Companions

William J Silberman: father (Russian immigrant; manufactured miniature beer and whiskey bottles)
Katharine Anastasia Silberman: daughter (mother, Mary Joan Schutz)

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