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Gene Wilder (Jerome Silberman) was born on 11 June, 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., is an American actor (1933–2016). Discover Gene Wilder's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

Popular As Jerome Silberman
Occupation Actor · writer · filmmaker · comedian
Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 11 June, 1933
Birthday 11 June
Birthplace Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Date of death 29 August, 2016
Died Place Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Gene Wilder Height, Weight & Measurements

At 83 years old, Gene Wilder height is 5' 10½" (1.79 m) .

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Height 5' 10½" (1.79 m)
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Who Is Gene Wilder's Wife?

His wife is Mary Mercier (m. 1960-1965) Mary Joan Schutz (m. 1967-1974) Gilda Radner (m. 1984-1989) Karen Boyer (m. 1991)

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Wife Mary Mercier (m. 1960-1965) Mary Joan Schutz (m. 1967-1974) Gilda Radner (m. 1984-1989) Karen Boyer (m. 1991)
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Gene Wilder Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Gene Wilder worth at the age of 83 years old? Gene Wilder’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from United States. We have estimated Gene Wilder's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

The Producers (1967)$10,000

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1933

Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman, June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016) was an American actor, comedian, writer and filmmaker.

Wilder was born Jerome Silberman on June 11, 1933, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Jeanne (Baer) and William J. Silberman, a manufacturer and salesman of novelty items.

His father was a Jewish Russian immigrant, as were his maternal grandparents.

Wilder first became interested in acting at age eight, when his mother was diagnosed with rheumatic fever and the doctor told him to "try and make her laugh."

At the age of 11, he saw his sister, who was studying acting, performing onstage, and the experience enthralled him.

He asked her teacher if he could become his student, and the teacher said that if he was still interested at age 13, he would take Wilder on as a student.

The day after Wilder turned 13, he called the teacher, who accepted him; Wilder studied with him for two years.

When Jeanne Silberman felt that her son's potential was not being fully realized in Wisconsin, she sent him to Black-Foxe, a military institute in Hollywood, where he was bullied and sexually assaulted, primarily because he was the only Jewish boy in the school, according to his own account.

After an unsuccessful short stay at Black-Foxe, Wilder returned home and became increasingly involved with the local theater community.

He performed for the first time in front of a paying audience at age 15, as Balthasar (Romeo's servant) in a production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

1951

Gene Wilder graduated from Washington High School in Milwaukee in 1951.

Wilder was raised Jewish, but he held only the Golden Rule as his philosophy.

1955

Following his 1955 graduation from Iowa, he was accepted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol, England.

After six months of studying fencing, Wilder became the first freshman to win the All-School Fencing Championship.

Desiring to study Stanislavski's system, he returned to the US, living with his sister and her family in Queens, New York City.

He enrolled at the HB Studio.

1956

Wilder was drafted into the Army on September 10, 1956.

At the end of recruit training, he was assigned to the medical corps and sent to Fort Sam Houston for training.

He was then given the opportunity to choose any open post and wanting to stay near New York City to attend acting classes at the HB Studio, he chose to serve as paramedic in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at Valley Forge Army Hospital, in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.

1957

In November 1957, his mother died from ovarian cancer.

He was discharged from the army a year later and returned to New York.

A scholarship to the HB Studio allowed him to become a full-time student.

At first living on unemployment insurance and some savings, he later supported himself with odd jobs such as a limousine driver and fencing instructor.

Wilder's first professional acting job was in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he played the Second Officer in Herbert Berghof's production of Twelfth Night.

He also served as a fencing choreographer.

After three years of study with Berghof and Uta Hagen at the HB Studio, Charles Grodin told Wilder about Lee Strasberg's method acting.

1961

He began his career on stage, and made his screen debut in an episode of the TV series The Play of the Week in 1961.

1967

He collaborated with Mel Brooks on the films The Producers (1967), Blazing Saddles (1974) and Young Frankenstein (1974), and with Richard Pryor in the films Silver Streak (1976), Stir Crazy (1980), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) and Another You (1991).

His first film role was that of a hostage in the 1967 motion picture Bonnie and Clyde.

His first major film role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1967 film The Producers, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

It was the first in a series of collaborations with writer/director Mel Brooks, including Young Frankenstein, which Wilder co-wrote, garnering the pair an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

1971

He was mainly known for his comedic roles, but also for his portrayal of Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971).

1972

He also starred in Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972).

1984

Wilder directed and wrote several of his own films, including The Woman in Red (1984).

With his third wife, Gilda Radner, he starred in three films, the last two of which he also directed.

1989

Her 1989 death from ovarian cancer led to his active involvement in promoting cancer awareness and treatment, helping found the Gilda Radner Ovarian Cancer Detection Center in Los Angeles and co-founding Gilda's Club.

2003

After his last acting performance in 2003—a guest role on Will & Grace, for which he received an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series—Wilder turned his attention to writing.

2005

He produced a memoir, Kiss Me Like a Stranger (2005) and five other books.

In a book published in 2005, he stated, "I have no other religion. I feel very Jewish and I feel very grateful to be Jewish. But I don't believe in God or anything to do with the Jewish religion."

Wilder studied Communication and Theatre Arts at the University of Iowa, where he was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity.