Hollywood actor and director Gene Wilder died
The US actor and director Gene Wilder is dead. According to his family he died on Monday at his home in Connecticut. Wilder had suffered in recent years from Alzheimer’s and died from complications of the disease, as his family informed. He was the official figures, 83 years old – other sources, he was only 81
The comedian with curly up tangled hair, in the 1970s and 1980s, a famous of Hollywood comedians, often played crazy types. as she could invent a director like Mel Brooks – whether in “Young Frankenstein” or “springtime for Hitler” in 1968. in “Blazing Saddles” Wilder was brilliantly a drunken gunslingers, and in “Carlie and the chocolate factory “(Willy Wonka & amp; the Chocolate Factory”) he won in 1971 the hearts of the children of the world Wilder also played in Woody Everything comedy “Everything you always wanted to know about Sex *” and Stanley Donen “the little Prince” with <.. / p>
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 yesterday on Twitter, “and he has blessed me with his friendship.” Brooks had Wilder in 1968, where in the musical satire “Springtime for Hitler” the role of the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, for the Wilder got an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Wilder was born on 11 June 1933 as Jerome Silberman in Milwaukee. His father was a Russian emigre, his mother Polish descent. In 1961 he was with the stage name Gene Wilder made his debut on Broadway. In 1963 he stood together with Anne Bancroft in Brecht’s “Mother Courage” on stage. A supporting role in the successful gangster film “Bonnie_und_Clyde” earned him 1967 attention, in his typical part of a meek average man who has to deal with exceptional challenges
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Even as an author and director of comedies he showed a knack, among others, “Sherlock Holmes’ smarter brother” in 1975 and “the woman in Red” (1984), which earned him one of his greatest successes. Along with Richard Pryor, with whom he turned four comedies, he went to one of the most popular comedian duo of that time on.
From 1984 until her untimely death from cancer in 1989 Wilder was married to his colleague Gilda Radner, with together, he starred in four movies. In 1998 he published together with a specialist a book about the disease and the death of his wife
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