Gene Wilder was an amazing actor and human. A real funny guy. He was one of my favorite actors. Three of my favorite movies that Gene stared in were.

1. Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

2. Young Frankenstein.

3. Blazing Saddles.

Below is some history about Gene Wilder from Wikipedia.com

May Gene Wilder R.I.P.

Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder
Wilder in 1970
Born	Jerome Silberman June 11, 1933 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died	August 29, 2016 (aged 83) Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.
Cause of death	Complications of Alzheimer's disease
Alma mater	University of Iowa
Occupation	Actor, screenwriter, director, author
Years active	1961–2003 (actor) 1998–2013 (author)
Spouse(s)	Mary Mercier (m. 1960; div. 1965) Mary Joan Schutz (m. 1967; div. 1974) Gilda Radner (m. 1984; her death 1989) Karen Boyer (m. 1991; his death 2016)
Relatives	Jordan Walker-Pearlman (nephew)
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Jerome Silberman (June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016), known professionally as Gene Wilder, was an American comic actor in film and theater, screenwriter, film director, and author.

Wilder began his career on stage, and made his screen debut in an episode of the TV series The Play of the Week in 1961. Although his first film role was portraying a hostage in the 1967 motion pictureBonnie and Clyde,^[1] Wilder's first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1968 film The Producers for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. This was the first in a series of collaborations with writer/director Mel Brooks, including 1974's Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, which Wilder co-wrote, garnering the pair an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Wilder is known for his portrayal of Willy Wonka in 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(1989), and Another You (1991).^[1] Wilder directed and wrote several of his own films, including The Woman in Red (1984).

His third wife was actress Gilda Radner, with whom he starred in three films, the last two of which he also directed. Her 1989 death from ovarian cancer led to his active involvement in promoting cancer awareness and treatment, helping found the Gilda Radner Ovarian Cancer Detection Center in Los Angeles^[1] and co-founding Gilda's Club.

After his last contribution to acting in 2003 – a guest role on Will & Grace for which he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor – Wilder turned his attention to writing. He produced a memoir in 2005, Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art; a collection of stories, What Is This Thing Called Love? (2010); and the novels My French Whore(2007), The Woman Who Wouldn't (2008) andSomething to Remember You By (2013).

Early life and education

Wilder was born Jerome Silberman on June 11, 1933, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Jeanne (Baer) and William J. Silberman, a manufacturer and salesman of novelty items.^[2] His father was aRussian Jewish immigrant, as were his maternal grandparents.^[3] He adopted "Gene Wilder" for his professional name at the age of 26, later explaining, "I had always liked Gene because of Thomas Wolfe's character Eugene Gant in Look Homeward, Angel andOf Time and the River. And I was always a great admirer of Thornton Wilder."^[4]^[5] Wilder first became interested in acting at age 8, when his mother was diagnosed with rheumatic fever and the doctor told him to "try and make her laugh."^[6]

At the age of 11, he saw his sister, who was studying acting, performing onstage, and he was enthralled by the experience. He asked her teacher if he could become his student, and the teacher said that if he were still interested at age 13, he would take Wilder on as a student. The day after Wilder turned 13, he called the teacher, who accepted him; Wilder studied with him for two years.^[7]

When Jeanne Silberman felt that her son's potential was not being fully realized in Wisconsin, she sent him to Black-Foxe, a military institute in Hollywood, where he was bullied and sexually assaulted, primarily because he was the only Jewish boy in the school, according to his own account.^[8] After an unsuccessful short stay at Black-Foxe, Wilder returned home and became increasingly involved with the local theatre community. At age 15, he performed for the first time in front of a paying audience, as Balthasar (Romeo's manservant) in a production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.^[9]Gene Wilder graduated from Washington High Schoolin Milwaukee in 1951.

Wilder was raised Jewish, but he held only the Golden Rule as his philosophy. In a book published in 2005, he stated, "I have no other religion. I feel very Jewish and I feel very grateful to be Jewish. But I don't believe in God or anything to do with the Jewish religion".^[10]

Wilder studied Communication and Theatre Arts at the University of Iowa, where he was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity.