LOS ANGELES (AP) – Gene Wilder, actor curly hair humorous printed his stamp on such memorable roles as the neurotic accountant “Producers” and the mad animator on “Young Frankenstein,” has died. He was 83.
The nephew Wilder said Monday that the actor and writer died Sunday night at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, of complications related to Alzheimer’s disease.
Jordan Walker-Pearlman said in a statement that Wilder was diagnosed with the disease three years ago, but kept it private so as not to disappoint his fans.
“I just could not tolerate the idea of a smile less in the world, “Walker-Pearlman said.
Wilder began his career in the theater, but millions knew him for his work in film, especially for his collaborations with Mel Brooks in” the producers “” Madness in the west “and” young Frankenstein “. In the latter, in which Wilder played the Californian offspring of a mad scientist who insisted that his name “Frahn-ken-SHTIN” was pronounced, he was co-written by Brooks and Wilder.
“One of the talents truly great of our time, “tweeted Mel Brooks. “He blessed each film we did with his magic and I blessed me with their friendship.”
With his tousled hair and big blue eyes, Wilder was a master playing awe characters panic trapped in schemes only a madman like Brooks could conceive, either reliving a monster in “young Frankenstein” or scamming Broadway in “The producers”. Brooks called it “the perfect prey of God, the victim in all of us”.
But also shone as a sheriff drunk on “Madness in the West” and as the charming confectioner favorite of the children “Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory”. His role craziest. The therapist who has an affair with a sheep in Woody Allen’s “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask”
It was a close friend of Richard Pryor and Wilder opposed-personalities tense, relaxed Pryor – were ideal for comedy. They starred together four films: “Silver Streak,” “nutters”, “See No Evil, Hear No Evil” and “One lies and the other tricks”. And they created several memorable scenes, particularly when Pryor taught Wilder how to “act like a black” while trying to evade police in “Silver Streak”.
In 1968, Wilder received a nomination Oscar for her work in “The producers”. In this film made the introverted Leo Bloom, an accountant who discovers the liberating pleasures of greed and corruption as he and Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) create a Broadway flop “Springtime For Hitler” and plan to escape with the money raised for the production.
Matthew Broderick played the role of Wilder in a revival of the musical on Broadway in 2001.
Although collaborated on the film, Wilder and Brooks met at the theater. Wilder was in a play with then future wife of Brooks, Anne Bancroft, who introduced behind the scenes in 1963.
Wilder, a native of Milwaukee whose real name was Jerome Silberman, was born on June 11, 1935. his father was a Russian immigrant, his mother was of Polish descent. When Wilder was 6, his mother suffered a heart attack which left her immobile medium. Soon he began to improvise comedy sketches to entertain, in what was the first indication of his future career.
He started taking acting classes at age 12 and continued acting and taking classes along University. In 1961, Wilder became a member of the prestigious Actor’s Studio of Lee Strasberg in Manhattan.
That same year, he debuted both Broadway and off-Broadway. He won the Clarence Derwent Award, given to promising debutantes, for his work in the Broadway comedy Graham Greene “The complaisant Lover”.
Using her new name, Gene Wilder, for roles off-Broadway and on Broadway. He took the first name of the character of Eugene Gant in “Look Back, Homeward Angel” by Thomas Wolfe and playwright Thornton Wilder’s last name. A key moment in his career came when he starred with Bancroft “Mother Courage” by Bertolt Brecht and met Brooks.
“I was having problems with a small part of the work, and he gave me advice on how Act. He said, ‘That’s a song and dance. It is proselytizing about communism. Just jump, sing and dance and focus on the good things’. And he was right, “said Wilder.
Before starring in” The Producers, “had a small role as the hostage of gangsters in the 1967 classic” Bonnie and Clyde “. It reached a peak in the mid 70 successes Brooks “West Madness” and “Young Frankenstein”.
even wrote several screenplays and directed several films. In 1982, while doing “Hanky Panky-” fell in love with co-star Gilda Radner. He married her in 1984, and acted together in two films that Wilder wrote: “The Girl in Red” and “Moon Haunted honey”
After Radner died of ovarian cancer in 1989, Wilder. he spent much of his time promoting research into this disease. He opened a support center for cancer patients called “Gilda’s Place”. And in 1991 he spoke to the US Congress on the need to increase cancer studies.
Wilder leaves his wife Karen, whom he married in 1991.
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