REMINISCING …
GENE WILDER
Gene Wilder is an American stage and screen actor, director, screenwriter, and author who began his career on stage, making his screen debut in the film Bonnie and Clyde in 1967.
His first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1968 film The Producers which garnered him an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor. This was the first in a series of prolific collaborations with writer/director Mel Brooks, including 1974's Young Frankenstein, the script of which won 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). Wilder directed and wrote several of his films, including The Woman in Red (1984).
While serving in the U.S. Army, he was assigned as a Medic to the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He worked in treating psychiatric patients.
He claims that before Mel Brooks recruited him, he regarded himself as more of a dramatic than a comedic actor.
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