Los Angeles –
The US actor and director Gene Wilder is dead
After. his family, he died on Monday at his home in Connecticut. The reported the AP news agency and the industry magazine “Variety”, citing the nephew of the actor.
Famous as Willy Wonka
Wilder was thus 83 years old – other sources, he was only 81. In the 1970s and 1980s he was one of Hollywood’s most famous comedians
with quirky comedies like “Young Frankenstein,” “what’s Up, Sheriff?” and “See No Evil, Hear No Evil. “as well as Willy Wonka in” Charlie and the chocolate factory “he brought millions of viewers laugh.
Director Mel Brooks, often together work with Wilder, paid tribute to his colleague and friend as a” truly great talent of our time ” , He had all of their joint films with his “magic” blessed, Brooks wrote on Monday on Twitter.
Brooks had Wilder in 1968 in the musical satire “Springtime for Hitler” the role of the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom added, for Wilder got an Oscar nomination for best Supporting Actor.
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