Gene Wilder is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 11 june 1933 at Milwaukee
Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder participated to
30 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
7 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Actor
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Directed by Mel BrooksOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Action,
WesternThemes Films about filmsActors Cleavon Little,
Gene Wilder,
Slim Pickens,
Harvey Korman,
Madeline Kahn,
Mel BrooksRoles Jim
Rating76%
In the American Old West of 1874, construction on a new railroad led by Lyle (Burton Gilliam) runs into quicksand. The route has to be changed, which will require it to go through Rock Ridge, a frontier town where everyone has the last name of "Johnson" (including a "Howard Johnson," a "Dr. Samuel Johnson," a "Van Johnson" and an "Olson N. Johnson"). The conniving State Attorney General Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) – who constantly has to correct people who call him "Hedy", the name of a movie star, instead of "Hedley" – wants to buy the land along the new railroad route cheaply by driving out the townspeople. He sends a gang of thugs, led by his flunky assistant Taggart (Slim Pickens), to scare them away, prompting the townsfolk to demand that Governor William J. Le Petomane (Mel Brooks) appoint a new sheriff. Lamarr persuades the dim-witted Le Petomane to select Bart (Cleavon Little), a black railroad worker who was about to be hanged, as he believes a black lawman will so offend the townspeople that they will either abandon Rock Ridge or lynch the new sheriff, with either result paving the way for him to take over the town., 1h51
Directed by Sidney PoitierOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
ActionThemes Prison films,
Buddy filmsActors Gene Wilder,
JoBeth Williams,
Richard Pryor,
Georg Stanford Brown,
Barry Corbin,
Craig T. NelsonRoles Skip Donahue
Rating66%
Writer Skip Donahue and actor Harry Monroe are fired from their jobs in New York, and leave for Hollywood. Along the way, they take odd jobs to make ends meet. During one such job in Arizona, Skip and Harry perform a song and dance routine dressed as woodpeckers as part of a promotion for a bank. While the duo is taking a break, two men steal the costumes and rob the bank. Harry and Skip are arrested, whisked through a speedy trial and handed 125-year jail sentences. Their court-appointed lawyer, Len Garber, advises them to wait until he can appeal their case., 1h41
Directed by Mel Brooks,
Gene WilderOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Comedy,
Horror comedy,
HorrorThemes Films about computing,
Films based on science fiction novels,
Comedy science fiction films,
Frankenstein films,
Comedy horror films,
Cyberpunk films,
Children's filmsActors Gene Wilder,
Peter Boyle,
Marty Feldman,
Madeline Kahn,
Cloris Leachman,
Teri GarrRoles Frederick Frankenstein
Rating79%
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) is a physician lecturer at an American medical school and engaged to the tightly wound socialite Elizabeth (Madeline Kahn). He becomes exasperated when anyone brings up the subject of his grandfather, the infamous mad scientist. To disassociate himself from his forebear, Frederick insists that his surname is pronounced "Fronkensteen.", 1h54
Directed by Arthur HillerOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Comedy,
Action,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Transport films,
Rail transport films,
Buddy films,
Children's filmsActors Gene Wilder,
Jill Clayburgh,
Patrick McGoohan,
Richard Pryor,
Ned Beatty,
Richard KielRoles George Caldwell
Rating68%
Book editor George Caldwell (Wilder) travels from Los Angeles to Chicago for his sister's wedding aboard a train called the Silver Streak. On board, George meets a vitamin salesman named Bob Sweet (Beatty) and a woman named Hilly Burns (Clayburgh). Hilly works for Professor Schreiner, a well-known art historian who is on a publicity tour for his new book about Rembrandt., 1h27
Directed by Gene WilderOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceActors Kelly LeBrock,
Gilda Radner,
Gene Wilder,
Charles Grodin,
Joseph Bologna,
Judith IveyRoles Theodore Pierce
Rating59%
San Francisco ad man Teddy Pierce is amused by, then obsessed with, a beautiful woman whose red dress goes whooshing over her head from a gust of wind, showing her red panties while she crosses a grate. Teddy is happily married to Didi, but he can't get this woman out of his mind., 1h27
Directed by Woody AllenOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Anthology filmThemes Films about animals,
Films about sexuality,
Erotic filmsActors Woody Allen,
Louise Lasser,
John Carradine,
Tony Randall,
Burt Reynolds,
Lou JacobiRoles Dr. Doug Ross
Rating66%
Des aphrodisiaques permettent à un fou du roi (Woody Allen) de trouver la clé qui lui ouvrira les portes du cœur de la reine (Lynn Redgrave), avant de s'apercevoir que la clé de sa ceinture de chasteté lui serait tout de même plus utile., 1h30
Directed by Mel BrooksOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
MusicalThemes Films about religion,
Films about sexuality,
Théâtre,
LGBT-related films,
Musical films,
Political films,
Films about Jews and Judaism,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Zero Mostel,
Gene Wilder,
Kenneth Mars,
Dick Shawn,
Estelle Winwood,
Renee TaylorRoles Leo Bloom
Rating74%
Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) is a washed-up, aging, and also fraud and corruptible greedy Broadway producer who ekes out a living romancing lascivious wealthy elderly women in exchange for money for his next play. Accountant Leopold "Leo" Bloom (Gene Wilder) arrives at Max's office to do his books and discovers there is a $2,000 discrepancy in the accounts of Max's last play. Max persuades Leo to hide the relatively minor fraud, and, while shuffling numbers, Leo has a revelation: a producer could make a lot more money with a flop than a hit, by overselling the shares in the production as no one will audit the books of a play presumed to have lost money. Max immediately puts this scheme into action. They will over-sell shares on a massive scale, and produce a play that will close on opening night, thus avoiding a pay-out and leaving the duo free to flee to Rio de Janeiro with the profits. Leo is afraid such a criminal venture will fail and they will go to prison, but Max eventually convinces him that his drab existence is no better than prison.