Gene Wilder obituary by Ronald Bergan

Comic actor who brought hysteria to The Producers and charm to Willy WonkaAfter more than 30 years in show business, the frizzy-headed comic actor Gene Wilder, who has died aged 83, was most associated with his second film role, that of Leo Bloom, the hyperneurotic accountant in Mel Brooks' comedy The Producers (1967). It established Wilder's screen persona " an initially well-balanced individual transformed by even …

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