Jerome Silberman, known professionally as Gene Wilder, was an American actor, filmmaker, singer-songwriter, comedian 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. His first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1967 film The Producers for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He wrote and directed several films, including The Woman in Red, which he co-wrote and starred in with his second wife, the late GildaRadner.
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Jerome Silberman, known professionally as Gene Wilder, was an American actor, filmmaker, singer-songwriter, comedian 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. His first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1967 film The Producers for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His last acting performance was a guest role on Will & Grace in 2003. 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? ; and the novels My French Whore, The Woman Who Wouldn’t, and Something to Remember You By. Wilder was raised Jewish, but he held only the Golden Rule as his philosophy. In a book published in 2005 he stated, “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’”. He was married to his third wife, Gilda Radner, for more than 30 years. He is survived by his wife, two daughters and a son. He died of cancer at the age of 80. He was buried in New York City, where he lived with his wife and their three children. He also had a son, Michael, who is a physician. He had a daughter, Rachel, who was born in 1998 and has three children of her own.
He has two step-daughters and one step-granddaughter. He lived in Los Angeles, California, and died in New Jersey in 2009. He wrote and directed several films, including The Woman in Red, which he co-wrote and starred in with his second wife, the late GildaRadner. He starred in four films with Richard Pryor: Silver Streak, Stir Crazy, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, and Another You, as well as starring in Woody Allen’s Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* . He also directed and wrote several of his own films, such as The Woman In Red. He appeared in several films with his fourth wife, actress and singer Gilda radner, including Silver Streak and Stir Crazy. He received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in 2003 for his role in the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He won the U.S. Army All-School Fencing Championship with his sister and her family in Queens, S.C. In November 1956, he was drafted into the medical corps and sent to Fort Sam, Pennsylvania, to train for training. In 1957, his mother died from ovarian cancer, and he was discharged from the army. He later returned to New York to attend acting classes at the HB Studio, and later chose to serve as a paramedic in the Neurology Department of Neurology Valley Forge Hospital.
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