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Gene Wilder 83yo
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Candyman can't anymore.
Really underrated actor, very subtle. RIP
Comedy legend. Stir crazy was one of his best RIP.
Goodbye Wako kid 🙁
Him and Pryor, very funny, RIP
Let's have a round of applause for the Wako Kid. RIP one of the funniest men who ever lived....
applause for the Wako Kid.
See this hand?.....
RIP 🙁
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a woman?
Absolutely brilliant comedian . RIP
He was good, he was. Better Willy than Johnny Depp.
RIP
Ride on Wako Kid....
RIP...
I think I'm going to have to watch Blazing Saddles again before too long..
Loved his films. Another sorry loss to 2016.
Frau blücher.....
When me and my best mate Neil got in from the pub, when we were young whippersnappers, this was just our default setting. The Blazing Saddles VHS went in the video, and we'd sit there laughing like drains, despite the fact that we'd watched him deliver every line 100 times before. That's comedy genius!
What Knockers! RIP funny man.
What knockers!
Edit - 20 bloody seconds!
Have this instead
"[i]You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons. [/i]"
Pisser!
🙁
See No Evil Hear No Evil (1989) was one of my all time favs.
"I'm Black??" Does dad know?
One of the very best.
Hope he didn't suffer for too long.
🙁
We are the dreamers of the dreams.
He was a fantastic actor, Young Frankenstein should be shown to all aspiring comedic actors
Nooooo!! 🙁
Young Frankenstein was probably [i]the[/i] film of my childhood. Gutted.
"The said-a-give!!"
RIP.
[i]chakaping - Member
One of the very best.
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Agree, totally. Couldn't have put it better, myself.
Of all the great roles he played, I'm not sure Wonka would be the one I'll remember him for.
Blazing Saddles, See No Evil, absolute genius.
[i]MoreCashThanDash - Member
Of all the great roles he played, I'm not sure Wonka would be the one I'll remember him for.
Blazing Saddles, See No Evil, absolute genius.
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But that's the true measure. Doesn't really matter what film you first encountered Wilder in. Once you saw him, you never forgot it and no one was quite like him.
As others have alluded to. He gave his best and you saw it on screen. And good it was. obviously, in later yrs his best days were behind him. But do we see his ilk now? No! And we are all of us, worse off for that.
RIP Fella!
Young Frankenstein
"Where wolf?"
One of my favourite films of my youth. RIP fella.
I'm not usually bothered about celebs and stuff, but this has made me quite upset. I loved his films, he always came across as a very nice person too.
Blazing Saddles, See No Evil, absolute genius.
Add in stir crazy to that, genius is a very apt word. Well put.
Comedy legend. Stir crazy was one of his best RIP.
Totally with you there Funkmasterp 😛
"Frau Blucher" 🙁
Absolutely astonished he was 83.
Just simply one of the funniest people I have had the pleasure to watch...
And it's kind of nice that he is best known to a generation as the crazy looking bloke in that patronising meme.
He was great in that French connection thing.
I always liked "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother".
"Elite Glass for any class,
You bet your ass!"
And the kangaroo hop song is a bit catchy.
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spacemonkey - Member
Young Frankenstein
"Where wolf?"
"There Wolf, There Castle"
Surprised a bit at all the love for the work with Richard Pryor, which imho was far from the best work of either, but no mention as far as I can see for The Producers??
Spike Milligan was Roald Dahl's choice for Willy Wonka. I reckon he would of been closer to the character in the book.
Never liked Gene Wilder or Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka.
(just so that pointless post ^^ isn't the last in the thread!)
He was also in one of the best films of all time ever - "Bonnie & Clyde". So there.