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Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman; June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016) was an American actor, comedian, writer and filmmaker.He was mainly known for his comedic roles, including his portrayal of Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971).
Peter Gardner Ostrum (/ ˈ oʊ s t r ə m / OH-strəm; [1] born November 1, 1957) is an American retired veterinarian and former child actor, whose only film role was as Charlie Bucket in the 1971 motion picture Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Ostrum was 12 years old when selected by talent agents for Willy Wonka. Though he enjoyed the ...
In 2011, some of the Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory cast members, which included Nickerson, reunited for an episode of Top Chef: Just Desserts, which challenged the contestants to create an edible world of wonder. [20] The partial Wonka cast reunited in 2011 and again in 2015 on The Today Show. [21] [22] [23] [24]
Since his death in mid-2009, he has topped the list every year except for 2009, 2012, and 2021–22. This is a list of the world's highest-paid dead celebrities as ranked by Forbes magazine since October 2001.
Willy Wonka is a fictional character appearing in British author Roald Dahl's 1964 children's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, ...
Also nominated was Albertson's later Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory co-star Gene Wilder, for his role in The Producers. Albertson appeared as Charlie Bucket's Grandpa Joe in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), and in The Poseidon Adventure (1972), where he played Manny Rosen, [9] husband to Belle, played by Shelley Winters.
Nixon, who died in 1994, had a net worth of $988,522 in 1973, according to a Dec. 9 issue from that year by The San Francisco Examiner. That amounts to about $6.03 million in today’s dollars.
Michael Böllner (born September 14, 1958) is a German former child actor known for playing Augustus Gloop in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.He was one of two child actors from the film who never acted in another production afterwards, the other being Peter Ostrum who played Charlie Bucket.