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Gene Wilder, Comedy Legend of a Generation, Dead at 83

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He will be forever remembered for bringing Willy Wonka to life and infusing humanity into the films of Mel Brooks.

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Gene Wilder, the actor immortalized by his role as Willy Wonka, has died at age 83, his family announced Monday. Some of Wilder’s most iconic roles were in the early films of Mel Brooks where he portrayed the nervous accountant Leo Bloom in 1968’s The Producers, the drunk cowboy who...

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