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Gene Wilder Dies at 83; Star of ‘Willy Wonka’ and ‘Young Frankenstein’
A talented and funny guy. Thanks, didn't know.
Gene Wilder | 1933-2016
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https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2016/08/29/obituaries/gene-wilder-1933-2016.html
By Daniel Lewis
Aug. 29, 2016
Gene Wilder, who established himself as one of America’s foremost comic actors with his delightfully neurotic performances in three films directed by Mel Brooks; his eccentric star turn in the family classic “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”; and his winning chemistry with Richard Pryor in the box-office smash “Stir Crazy,” died early Monday morning at his home in Stamford, Conn. He was 83.
A nephew, the filmmaker Jordan Walker-Pearlman, confirmed his death in a statement, saying the cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease.
Mr. Wilder’s rule for comedy was simple: Don’t try to make it funny; try to make it real. “I’m an actor, not a clown,” he said more than once.
With his haunted blue eyes and an empathy born of his own history of psychic distress, he aspired to touch audiences much as Charlie Chaplin had. The Chaplin film “City Lights,” he said, had “made the biggest impression on me as an actor; it was funny, then sad, then both at the same time.”
More - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/movies/gene-wilder-dead.html
A talented and funny guy. Thanks, didn't know.
Gene Wilder | 1933-2016
8 Photos View Slide Show› Paramount Pictures, via Photofest ..
https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2016/08/29/obituaries/gene-wilder-1933-2016.html
By Daniel Lewis
Aug. 29, 2016
Gene Wilder, who established himself as one of America’s foremost comic actors with his delightfully neurotic performances in three films directed by Mel Brooks; his eccentric star turn in the family classic “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”; and his winning chemistry with Richard Pryor in the box-office smash “Stir Crazy,” died early Monday morning at his home in Stamford, Conn. He was 83.
A nephew, the filmmaker Jordan Walker-Pearlman, confirmed his death in a statement, saying the cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease.
Mr. Wilder’s rule for comedy was simple: Don’t try to make it funny; try to make it real. “I’m an actor, not a clown,” he said more than once.
With his haunted blue eyes and an empathy born of his own history of psychic distress, he aspired to touch audiences much as Charlie Chaplin had. The Chaplin film “City Lights,” he said, had “made the biggest impression on me as an actor; it was funny, then sad, then both at the same time.”
More - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/movies/gene-wilder-dead.html
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