Los Angeles (dpa) – The US actor, director and screenwriter Gene Wilder is dead known the man was with loose blonde curls and blue eyes in the 1970s as Willy Wonka in “Charlie. and the chocolate factory “and films like” Young Frankenstein “.
According to his family Wilder died Monday at his home in Connecticut. According to the report, which was present also the German Press Agency, Wilder died as a result of Alzheimer’s disease. He was therefore 83 years old. The Associated Press and the trade magazine “Variety” had first reported about the death.
In the statement writes his nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman why Wilder the disease until recently kept secret. “The decision was not vanity. It was about the countless small children, smiled at him or him” Da Willy Wonka’s! “Shouted.” When he wanted to cause any worry. “He just could not bear the thought that there was a smile less in the world.”
In the 1970s and 1980s, Wilder was one of Hollywood’s best-known comedians. With comedies like “What’s Up, Sheriff?” and “See No Evil, Hear No Evil” and as bizarre factory owner Willy Wonka in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” he brought millions of viewers laugh. In Woody Allen’s “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *” Wilder was seen.
Now mourn companions and Stars to the jester. 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, 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. 1975 Wilder was nominated along with Brooks for best screenplay. “Young Frankenstein” but lost to the second part of “The Godfather”.
Actor Eric McCormack ( “Will and Grace”) wrote: “A genius, of which I have ever stolen.” The role as Will Truman’s boss in the comedy series was Wilders last. “One of the funniest and herzigsten ways in which energy has assumed ever the human form,” wrote comedian Jim Carrey. Oscar winner Russell Crowe praised Wilder as “genius”. He had “Blazing Saddles” (German title “What’s Up, Sheriff?”, 1974) with his school friends saw seven times, wrote the New Zealand Star on Twitter.
In the 1980s, Wilder had retired from Hollywood in the
east coast state of Connecticut, where he most recently lived with his
fourth wife. Born in 1933 in Wisconsin, US son of Russian immigrants debuted on the big screen in the gangster drama “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967) in the small role of a shy undertaker. In New York he had learned his trade at the famous theater school of Lee Strasberg.
Part of his family had held at the time of death Wilders hand, it said in the statement by the nephew on. A set to shuffle speakers have played Ella Fitzgerald’s “Somewhere over the Rainbow”.
obituary in “Variety”
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