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	Comedy Central: Comedians: Gene Wilder
		The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Wilder was born Jerome "Jerry" Silberman in Milwaukee, WI.
		Wilder was an exceptional fencer and while there won the school's fencing championship.
		Wilder made his feature film debut playing a small but memorable role as a timid undertaker who is kidnapped by the protagonists of Arthur Penn's violent Bonnie and Clyde (1967).
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	Gene Wilder \| Biography (born 1933)
		Wilder then struck out on his own, writing and directing as well as starring in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975, great funny title, not), a totally unsuccessful attempt at crafting comedy in the Brooksian mold.
		Wilder co-starred with stand-up comic Richard Pryor, making an interracial Hope-Crosby team of sorts but minus the Hope-Crosby talent, charisma or fun (in fact the complete opposite of Hope-Crosby when you come to think of it), in the 1976 Silver Streak.
		Wilder got one of his least annoying parts, as a rabbi in the Old West, opposite Harrison Ford in the uneven comedy adventure The Frisco Kid (1979).
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	The Biography Channel - Gene Wilder Biography
		During the 1970s, Wilder appeared in some of the decade's most popular comedies, but it was his role as Willy Wonka, in âWilly Wonka and the Chocolate Factoryâ, that would earn him lasting fame.
		Wilder was married to the Saturday Night Live veteran, Gilda Radner, until her death from cancer in 1989.
		Gene was present at the opening of 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' in New York City along with the Wonkamobile.
	www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/246:0/Gene_Wilder.htm (384 words)

	Gene Wilder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gene Wilder made many movies with Brooks starting with The Producers in 1968, playing the role of accountant Leopold “Leo” Bloom, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor.
		Born in Milwaukee, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Wilder studied drama at the University of Iowa, where he was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity, graduated in 1955, and later attended the prestigious Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the UK.
		Wilder himself was hospitalized with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1999 and made a full recovery in 2000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gene_Wilder (972 words)

	Distinguished Alumni Winner: Gene Wilder
		Gene Wilder, 55BA, is probably best known for making millions of people laugh, but his skills as an actor, screenwriter, and director have made enormous contributions to American cultural life.
		Born Jerome Silberman in Milwaukee in 1933, Wilder graduated from the University of Iowa with a B.A. in Communication and Theatre Arts in 1955.
		Wilder's successful career and his selfless and heartfelt work in supporting cancer patients and cancer research have clearly made him one of the UI's most valued and beloved graduates.
	www.iowalum.com /daa/wilder.html (675 words)

	Gene Wilder Biography (Actor/Filmmaker) — Infoplease.com
		Gene Wilder made his movie debut in 1967's Bonnie and Clyde (with Warren Beatty).
		Wilder played the eccentric title character in Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory and co-starred with Richard Pryor in four comedies, including Silver Streak (1976) and Stir Crazy (1980).
		Wilder himself was treated for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1999.
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	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| How childhood pain shaped comic Wilder
		Wilder, who has released an autobiography entitled Kiss Me Like A Stranger, told BBC World Service's The Ticket programme that he had first begun developing his comic talents after his mother suffered a "massive" heart attack when he was eight years old.
		Wilder explained he got his big break when "miscast" in a Broadway production, which was at the time starring Anne Bancroft - whose boyfriend was comedy director Mel Brooks.
		Wilder also forcefully expressed his disillusionment with the US film industry, saying he did not feel The Producers would be made in the modern environment.
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	Gene Wilder: It Hurts to Laugh (washingtonpost.com)
		An autobiography had been percolating in Wilder's mind for a long time, but he didn't focus on the idea until two years ago when he found himself in California, where his fourth wife, Karen, was nursing her mother back to health.
		He changed his name -- Wilder is from Thornton Wilder, Gene is from a Thomas Wolfe novel -- took classes with Lee Strasberg, auditioned a lot and married a woman whom he began to dislike on the drive to their honeymoon.
		Wilder's own cancer problems are behind him now -- he describes his blood tests as "very good" -- and he spends much of his time painting as well as acting in the nearby Westport Country Playhouse.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A5809-2005Mar27.html (1894 words)

	Gene Wilder Papers - The University of Iowa Libraries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wilder and his brother-in-law, Gilbert Pearlman, and was accessioned in 2001.
		Born Jerome Silberman in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on June 11, 1933, Gene Wilder is the son of William J. and Jeanne (Baer) Silberman.
		Wilder went to Hollywood in the late 1960's to perform first in Bonnie and Clyde, then in The Producers, and later in Young Frankenstein (1974), which he co-wrote, and in The World's Greatest Lover (1975), of which he was star, writer, director, and producer.
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	Gene Wilder
		Wilder’s best shot has him perched on a high ledge in a bathrobe as a news crew sets up a camera in a long shot that zooms right in to a close-up seen on TV around the dining room table in his home.
		The radio drama is still a vital thing, and in a certain sense Wilder may be said to have fashioned a dithyramb expounding its imaginative mysteries.
		The simple truth is that Wilder understands more about the cinema, is far more learned in its precedents and modes, and has a much better sense of humor than the critics.
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	Gene Wilder Photos - Gene Wilder News - Gene Wilder Information
		With Jane Fonda, Rolf Harris and Gene Wilder.
		Gene has worked as a: writer, actor, actor, director, toy salesman, fencing teacher, and a chauffeur.
		Gene was diagnosed with Non Hidgkins Lymphoma in 1999, and underwent Chemotherapy to fight the Cancer.
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	Gene Wilder
		Wilder briefly attended military school as a teen, where he was beaten by classmates for being Jewish.
		In his twenties, Wilder has said he was deeply religious, often submerging himself in prayer for hours at a time and once kneeling for eight consecutive hours of prayer in an Iowa cornfield.
		Wilder also directed several films, all comedies and all starring Wilder, the most successful of which was The Woman in Red with Kelly LeBrock as a married man's temptation.
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	BookPage Interview April 2005: Gene Wilder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		INTERVIEW BY PAT H. On the screen, Gene Wilder is known for his comic teamings with Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor.
		Three years later, when Wilder was on Broadway, Brooks reappeared in his life to report that the deal for the film, The Producers, was at last cinched.
		Wilder soon discovered that the "Saturday Night Live" star was as troubled as she was talented.
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	Gene Wilder Forum @ Filmbug
		But then...his real name isn't Gene, his real name is Jerome, and maybe this is why he's "the reluctant comic," because it was never really HIM on stage, it was always this phoney actor name, which all of a sudden gained popularity.
		There is something charming about a 70s Gene Wilder flick....consider "Silver Streak." The scene where he's driving the little sports coupe through the country with Richard Pryor sleeping in the passenger side...a cigarette is dangling from his lips and cheesey 70s elevator music is playing.
		Wilder is a classic....like Dudley Moore was a classic...they were masters at creating physical and intellectual comedy naturally, without putting much of an act on--and that's what made their schticks so funny.
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	Gene Wilder @ Filmbug
		Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman on June 11, 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is best known for his many collaborations with writer, producer, director Mel Brooks.
		Gene Wilder made many movies with Brooks starting with The Producers in 1968.
		Wilder was married to Saturday Night Live actress Gilda Radner from 1984 until her death from ovarian cancer in 1989.
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	GeneWilder.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wilder's performance as the endearingly frantic Leo Bloom in Producers, The (1967) kicked off his celebrated collaboration with Brooks and garnered him an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor.
		Wilder reteamed with Brooks for the inspired lunacy of Blazing Saddles (1974) and Young Frankenstein (1974), earning his second Oscar nomination for his first-time screenwriting efforts (along with Brooks) on the latter.
		Ironically, Hanky Panky (1982), Wilder's first of three films with his late wife Gilda Radner¹ (qv), would have paired him with Pryor, but Pryor's unavailability necessitated rewriting the part for Radner.
	www.genewilder.com /bio.html (315 words)

	Gene Wilder - MovieActors.com
		Wilder says he picked the name 'Gene Wilder' because he couldn't see a 'Jerry Silberman' playing Hamlet.
		In 1961 Gene Wilders first big break was playing a small role in the off-Broadway production of Arnold Wesker's "Roots" and followed quickly with his Broadway debut "The Complaisant Lover" for which he won the Clement Derwent Award.
		One of Gene Wilder's most memorable performances was in 1974's comedy hit YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.
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	Gene Wilder - Uncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gene Wilder is, was, and always will be a pirate-robot-ninja-dinosaur-firefighter from the future.
		They have become known as the Oompa Loompas, and are considered by experts to be the strangest world religion, after Scientology of course.
		During much of Wilder's lifetime, he was widely thought to be dead.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Gene_Wilder (286 words)

	NPR : Actor Gene Wilder: 'Kiss Me Like a Stranger'
		Fresh Air from WHYY, December 29, 2005 ·; Born Jerome Silberman, Gene Wilder made his film debut as a kidnap victim in Bonnie and Clyde, in 1967.
		Wilder is best known for his work with Mel Brooks, in the films Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, and The Producers.
		Wilder was also in Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, and he teamed up with Richard Pryor in the films Silver Streak, Stir Crazy and See No Evil, Hear No Evil.
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	Gene Wilder - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Gene Wilder - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Wilder, Gene, born in 1935, American motion-picture and stage actor, best known for portraying zany characters.
		Gene, basic unit of heredity found in the cells of all living organisms, from bacteria to humans.
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	Gene Wilder \| brianpuccio.net
		I've been watching a bunch of Gene Wilder movies with Christina as of late and I noticed that even in his comedies, he always has this sort of sad, serious, self-reflection part about a sixth of the way into the movie.
		Wilder: Well, I have this terrible feeling that I'm going to make some mistake and everyone is going to stand around and stare at me.
		At this point, the character played by Richard Pryor slides over, feels for Wilder's face and remarks "hey, you're a good looking guy." He then smiles big and plops his half eaten ice cream cone onto Wilder's head.
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	Gene Wilder - Moviefone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		With his wild curly hair, large expressive blue eyes, slight lisp, and nervous mannerism, Gene Wilder seems on the surface the epitome of the...
		Gene Wilder, birth name Jerome Silberman, (born June 11,...
		Gene Wilder made many movies with Brooks starting with The Producers in 1968, playing the role...
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	Amazon.ca: Young Frankenstein (Widescreen): DVD: Mel Brooks,Gene Wilder,Peter Boyle,Marty Feldman,Madeline Kahn,Cloris ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) is the grandson of the notorious Victor Frankenstein.
		Wilder and Boyle are pitch perfect as the doctor and his creation and the supporting cast of Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Terri Garr, Cloris Leachman, and Gene Hackman all shine.
		Of course this might be because a lot of the credit goes to Gene Wilder, who co-wrote the script and plays Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, grandson of the infamous monster maker who finally decides to pick up the family business.
	www.amazon.ca /Young-Frankenstein-Widescreen-Mel-Brooks/dp/6305168857 (1842 words)

	Q&A: Gene Wilder's Search for Love and Art - Arts Extra - Newsweek - MSNBC.com
		Born Jerome Silberman in 1935, Wilder recalls the first time he tried to make anyone laugh: it was to entertain his mother, seriously ill with heart disease.
		He made his film debut in 1967 with a small turn in “Bonnie and Clyde,” but it was with “The Producers” that he exploded: his demented energy, roiling under a fragile shy-guy sheen, was comedy catnip.
		In this endearing memoir, Wilder shares secrets from his best movies, dissects the happy accidents of his life, and writes with heartbreaking honesty about Radner and his subsequent remarriage, his own struggle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and his successful stem-cell transplant.
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	Gene Wilder News :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 4, 2000 -- Comic actor Gene Wilder, who lost wife Gilda Radner to cancer in 1989, is now battling the disease himself.
		Wilder, 64, is being treated at Manhattan Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
		The star of 1970s comedies "Blazing Saddles" and "Young Frankenstein" opened Gilda's Club, a support center for cancer patients and their families, in 1993 in memory of third wife Radner, one of the original cast members of "Saturday Night Live." Wilder has since remarried.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/news/id/196951 (283 words)

	Wilder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		Wilder (Dungeons and Dragons), a character class in Dungeons and Dragons
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