Gene Wilder Death: How long did Gene Wilder have Alzheimer’s?

Jerome Silberman, known professionally as Gene Wilder, was an American actor, comedian, writer and filmmaker.

Gene Wilder is known mainly for his comedic roles, but also for his portrayal of Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

Gene Wilder is also known for his collaborations with Mel Brooks on the films;

1. The Producers (1967),
2. Blazing Saddles (1974) and
3. Young Frankenstein (1974)

as well as Richard Pryor in the four films with Silver Streak (1976), Stir Crazy (1980), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) and Another You (1991).

Gene Wilder also starred in Woody Allen’s Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972).

Gene Wilder directed and wrote several of his own films, including The Woman in Red (1984).

After his last acting performance in 2003 – a guest role on Will & Grace for which he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor – Gene Wilder turned his attention to writing.

Gene Wilder produced a memoir in 2005, Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art; a collection of stories, What Is This Thing Called Love? (2010); and the novels My French Whore (2007), The Woman Who Wouldn’t (2008), and Something to Remember You By (2013).

How long did Gene Wilder have Alzheimer’s?

Gene Wilder died at the age of 83 on August 29, 2016, at home in Stamford, Connecticut, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive neurologic disorder that causes the brain to shrink (atrophy) and brain cells to die.

Gene Wilder had been diagnosed 3 years before his death but kept knowledge of his condition private.