Gene Wilder

Director, Actor

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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.
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…

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