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Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder was an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for his roles in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein. He passed away on August 29, 2016, due to complications from Alzheimer's disease.

Titles credited to Gene Wilder

Young Frankenstein

Young Frankenstein

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1974 IMDB Rating: 8

A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young...

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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1971 IMDB Rating: 7.8

When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a...

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Blazing Saddles

Blazing Saddles

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1974 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After...

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The Producers

The Producers

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1967 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Broadway producer, Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming little old ladies to invest in a production many times over what it will actually cost, and then put on a...

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The Scarecrow

The Scarecrow

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1972 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Just before the Salem Witch Trials, an embittered old woman, who has learned witchcraft, teams up with the Devil, and brings a scarecrow to life as part of her diabolical revenge on the judge who was...

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Silver Streak

Silver Streak

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1976 IMDB Rating: 6.9

A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some inv...

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See No Evil, Hear No Evil

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 6.8

A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested,...

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Stir Crazy

Stir Crazy

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 6.7

New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a b...

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The Little Prince

The Little Prince

Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1974 IMDB Rating: 6.5

Based on the story by Antoine deSaint-Exupery, this magical musical fable begins as a pilot (Richard Kiley) makes a forced landing on the barren Sahara Desert. He is befriended by a "little" prince fr...

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The Frisco Kid

The Frisco Kid

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 6.3

Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced traveller, he is tricked by con men to pay for the...

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