“No one has Gene’s pauses and explosions,” Brooks once said about him. His career didn’t take off immediately. Wilder kept getting offers to play hysterical characters, and he fought ...

Alzheimer’s disease, the second. I met Gene Wilder in 1989. He was preparing to shoot a movie called “See No Evil, Hear No Evil,” in which the character he played was deaf. Though I grew up ...

GALLERY: Remembering Gene Wilder’s Most Memorable Roles (PHOTOS ... And yet, there was a spirit in all those characters that unites them. And that fizzy, zany spirit, we must conclude, was ...

Gene Wilder mastered the art of the comic nervous breakdown, the character that always seemed seconds away from a shrieking, totally manic fit. From his breakthrough part in “The Producers ...

151; -- The beloved actor Gene Wilder passed away today at the ... It is in this Western jail, however, that Wilder's character discovers his talent for riding broncos and enters a prison rodeo.

Of all her classic scenes in the black-and-white monster comedy, there was one moment in particular that broke co-star Wilder through ... “As I turned to Gene, he’d be laughing, his face ...

Gene Wilder, by taking the first name from a character in Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel. The last name came from playwright Thornton Wilder. A key break for Wilder came when he co-starred ...

From Gene Wilder to Timothée Chalamet, take a look back at all of the actors who played the iconic character Alexandra Schonfeld is a features writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Credits: Directed by Ron Frank, featuring Mel Brooks, Alan Alda, Carol Kane and Ben Mankiewicz. Rating/Runtime: Rated R, 92 minutes. Whatever you might think about Johnny Depp and/or Timothée ...

The actor got inside the mischievous mind of his character and came up with ways ... Factory" is now widely regarded as one of Gene Wilder's best movies -- a bona fide classic.

Gene & Gilda is a new ... sometimes reducing these multifaceted characters to sitcom caricatures. One exception is a scene midway through the play, when Radner and Wilder open up to each other ...