Gene Wilder dies at 83
Posted August 29, 2016 12:42 pm.
Last Updated August 29, 2016 1:18 pm.
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CONNECTICUT (NEWS 1130) – Gene Wilder, the star of such comedy classics as “Young Frankenstein” and “Blazing Saddles,” has died. He was 83.
Wilder’s nephew says the actor and writer died earlier this month in Stamford, Connecticut from complications from Alzheimer’s disease.
The frizzy-haired actor was a master at playing panicked characters caught up in schemes that only a madman such as Mel Brooks could devise, whether reviving a monster in “Young Frankenstein” or bilking Broadway in “The Producers.”
But he also knew how to keep it cool as the boozy gunslinger in “Blazing Saddles” and as the charming candy man in the children’s favourite “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.”
