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RIP Gene Wilder

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  • #32
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,291 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    RIP

    One of my all time favourite actors.
    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    His performance in Willy Wonka was one of the greatest acting roles in movie history.

    Let's also not forget the movies he made with Richard Pryor.

    He also made a movie in Ireland. Quacker Fortune Has a Brother in the Bronx. A charming movie.

    Yeap, this pic is from St Teresa's Place in Glasnevin during filming.

    http://www.whatwasthere.com/browse.aspx#!/ll/53.368807,-6.27131399999996/id/56998/info/sv/zoom/14/


  • #33
    Zxclnic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 611 ✭✭✭Zxclnic


    Would love to believe in an after-life, it would be great to think that someone up there is now taking Gene Wilder by the hand and softly singing...

    ...If you want to view paradise
    Simply look around and view it
    Anything you want to, do it
    Want to change the world?
    There's nothing to it
    There is no
    Life I know
    To compare with pure imagination
    Living there
    You'll be free
    If you truly wish to be    ...


  • #34
    mad m
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,051 ✭✭✭mad m


    Young Frankenstein.... Love that film...


  • #35
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,978 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0eOT_uHF0s


  • #36
    Heisenberg1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,511 ✭✭✭Heisenberg1


    keno-daytrader wrote: »
    Silver Streak, an all time classic! RIP

    Loved that film great cast to.


    Willy Wonka: So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it. Thank you.


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  • #37
    barney shamrock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 870 ✭✭✭barney shamrock


    Fuzzy wuzzy was a woman??


  • #38
    bur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭bur


    One of the true greats. Gonna throw on Stir Crazy in remembrance.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yOMm6ecIuY


  • #39
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,587 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Ah, man. Was only saying the other night I must rewatch Blazing Saddles. And it's not Xmas without watching Willy Wonka. Great performance in that.


  • #40
    Heisenberg1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,511 ✭✭✭Heisenberg1


    frau blucher


  • #41
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    See No Evil Hear No Evil was a classic

    Absolutely brilliant movie.

    RIP


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  • #42
    Autosport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,280 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Rest in Peace


  • #43
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,804 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    A real shame.

    Always liked this interview he gave.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiKdTtzVK_U

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



  • #44
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    Always loved that man. Wish he did more in his later years he had a face and voice I couldn't get enough of. My mother used to say wasn't good looking but very attractive. The Waco Kid. Brilliant.
    I always loved The Lady in Red with Kelly LeBrock. If anyone can find the scene where he gets almost caught by his wife cheating, the expressions on his face are just priceless. This 2016 lark is silly, he lived a long and hopefully happy life, I hope he's sharing a beer with Richard Pryor now in heaven, RIP Gene you made a young Crayfish laugh a lot.


  • #45
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,490 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Senna wrote: »
    No, it's pronounced "Fronkensteen"

    I'm watching it right now.

    RIP Gene Wilder, very funny films


  • #46
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    RIP Mr Wilder

    I'll never be able to thank you enough for the enjoyment but most of all the laughs you gave me.


  • #47
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    See No Evil Hear No Evil was a classic
    Fuzzy wuzzy was a woman :D


  • #48
    newspower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭newspower


    He was such a funny guy. Young Frankenstein with him and Marty Feldman has to be one of the funniest movies ever....."What was the name on the brain" Eh Abbey....Abbey Normal :pac:


  • #49
    Shint0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭Shint0


    Who will rule the Oompa Loompas now and keep them in line? :(


  • #50
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Standard Toaster wrote: »
    RIP

    One of my all time favourite actors.



    Yeap, this pic is from St Teresa's Place in Glasnevin during filming.

    http://www.whatwasthere.com/browse.aspx#!/ll/53.368807,-6.27131399999996/id/56998/info/sv/zoom/14/
    He rode charlie in fair citys missus in that :eek:


  • #51
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,433 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    "But I shoot with this hand"

    RIP


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  • #52
    The Raptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭The Raptor


    Ahh no, never got tired of Charlie and the chocolate factory.


  • #53
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ahh he was fantastic. Haunted Honeymoon was one of my favourite films growing up :)

    Sleep well Gene.


  • #54
    Moo Moo Land
    Closed Accounts Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Moo Moo Land


    Absolute legend. This makes me very sad.

    Blazing Saddles made me laugh so much.


  • #55
    HS3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 405 ✭✭HS3


    It's very sad news. Though I must confess I thought he was already dead. See no Evil Hear No Evil still makes me chuckle.

    I think I'm one of very few who hated Willy Wonka. It absolutely petrified me. I thought Wonka was a sicko and those Umpa Lumpas....the song makes me turn cold.


  • #56
    Deagol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,892 ✭✭✭Deagol


    RIP Gene, I've watched you more times in the same movie than any other but will be different for ever more for some reason :'(


  • #57
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,577 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    ''You stupid ignorant son of a bitch dumb bastard!!! Jesus Christ, I've met some dumb bastards in my time, but you out do them all ''

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV-nDFpOJeU


  • #58
    Moo Moo Land
    Closed Accounts Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Moo Moo Land


    The Waco Kid...RIP



  • #59
    Academic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭Academic


    "The Producers" playing against Zero Mostel: some of the greatest comic chemistry in film history.

    There's a DVD available with a lot of interesting interviews and documentary extras. Recommended.


  • #60
    pajor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭pajor


    Just had a sconce at BBC news and saw that he had passed. Didn't know he had Alzheimer's.

    My favourite of his will always be Young Frankenstein.

    http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/0903/put-demotivational-poster-1236024315.jpg


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  • #61
    RobAMerc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,845 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    rip Gene

    I think blazing saddles was the first movie I ever saw in the cinema and I honestly think there has rarely a week gone by that I didnt quote a line from it
    I particularly like "they said you was hung!", "And they was right !" or "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."


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