Gene Wilder
Director, Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Death of a Salesman (1966)
- Dir. Alex Segal
Feat. James Farentino, Mildred Dunnock, George Segal…
- A 1966 teleplay adaptation of Arthur Miller's classic Pulitzer Prize–winning play, often thought one of the definitive versions. Lee J Cobb…
- Producers, The (1968)
- Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel
- Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel cavort in Mel Brooks' first (and best?) film, a Broadway–musical satire highlighted by the classic 'Springtime for…
- Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
- Dir. Bud Yorkin
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Gene Wilder, Hugh Griffith…
- Cult favourite has Donald Sutherland and Gene Wilder playing identical twins in pre–revolution France.
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) (1971)
- Dir. Mel Stuart
Feat. Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson
- Roald Dahl adapts his own book for this lively, almost psychedelic musical adaptation about a boy's desire to see inside a chocolate factory run by…
- Best of the Best of the Electric Company, The (1971-1977)
- Feat. Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman, Rita Moreno…
- A generous selection of excerpts from the long–running 1970s children's TV show, which mixed up its educationalist intentions (especially…
- Blazing Saddles (1974)
- Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder
- Classic Mel Brooks spoof–Western that almost killed the genre off!
- Young Frankenstein (1974)
- Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr…
- One of Mel Brooks' best is this on–target parody of Mary Shelley's gothic legend and especially James Whale's classic 1930s film versions.…
- Little Prince, The (1974)
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Richard Kiley, Bob Fosse, Gene Wilder
- The classic childern's story by aviator Antoine de Saint–Exupery is here translated with whimsy and wit intact. A pilot is stranded in a desert…
- Thursday's Game (1974)
- Dir. Robert Moore
Feat. Gene Wilder, Bob Newhart, Ellen Burstyn…
- Well regarded made–for–TV buddy movie.
Acquaintances Gene Wilder and Bob Newhart, deeply mired in parallel mid–life crises,…
- American Film Theatre - Rhinoceros (1974)
- Dir. Tom O'Horgan
Feat. Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Karen Black…
- Possibly the least appreciated of the American Film Theatre adaptations, this version of Eugene Ionesco's fable of totalitarianism is in fact perhaps…
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, The (1975)
- Dir. Gene Wilder
Feat. Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise…
- Fitfully amusing romp with Wilder as the great detective's resentful brother determined to steal the spotlight. Madeline Kahn steals the show.
- Silver Streak (1976)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh…
- Considered the first and best pairing of Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, this is an unusual yet relaxed mix of comedy, romance, action thriller and…
- World's Greatest Lover, The (1977)
- Dir. Gene Wilder
Feat. Gene Wilder, Carol Kane, Dom DeLuise…
- Hit–and–miss comedy set in the 1920s with Wilder as a sexually rapacious loser who heads to Hollywood intending to become the next…
- Frisco Kid, The (1979)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder
- Harrison Ford and Gene Wilder cross joke–strewn terrain in this comedy Western.
- Richard Pryor - Gene Wilder Collector's Pack (Stir Crazy, Another You, See No Evil Hear No Evil) (1980-1991)
- Feat. Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor
- Stir Crazy (1980)
- Dir. Sidney Poitier
Feat. Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Craig T. Nelson
- The first and best of the Pryor/Wilder comedies, about a pair of clumsy crooks who land in jail. Plenty of laughs – though fairly predictable…
- Woman In Red, The (1984)
- Dir. Gene Wilder
Feat. Gene Wilder, Kelly Le Brock, Charles Grodin
- Perhaps the height of Gene Wilder comedic indulgence, playing a middle–aged average man who becomes besotted with the womanly curves of leggy…
- Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
- Dir. Gene Wilder
Feat. Gene Wilder, Dom DeLuise, Gilda Radner…
- Insipid farce has two hapless honeymooners besieged by various spooky happenings. There is some fun to be had here and Wilder's affection for Abbott…
- See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder
- Average teaming of Wilder and Pryor as a deaf man and a blind man on the lam. The high obscene–language level doesn't yield much comic results.
- Another You (1991)
- Dir. Maurice Phillips
Feat. Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Mercedes Ruehl
- The final collaboration between Pryor and Wilder has its moments within a fairly weak plot about a pair of dishonest types drawn into a congame.
- Alice in Wonderland (1999)
- Dir. Nick Willing
Feat. Robbie Coltrane, Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Kingsley…
- The creators of the MERLIN TV–series pull–off another updating, this time Lewis Carroll's childrens' classic. Seamless special effects…