Star of The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Willy Wonka, Young Frankenstein and making his debut with in Bonnie and Clyde
He chose the name Gene Wilder because of much admired author Thornton Wilder who wrote the play Our Town and Eugene Gant, a character in Thomas Wolfe's novel, Look Homeward Angel
Whilst serving in the military he worked in the psychiatric ward delivering electroshock therapy
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