Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know ...

Gene Wilder (1933-2016) had an unusual career ... What was notable was his costarring with Richard Pryor in three films. “Silver Streak” (1976) and “Stir Crazy” (1980) were big hits ...

Gene Wilder entered the world with the given name ... the Chocolate Factory” and a series of comedies with Richard Pryor. In the 1990s, he appeared in a pair of “Will & Grace episodes ...

Image caption, Pryor's film career was not wildly successful, despite movies like Stir Crazy with Gene Wilder Zenovich, who has made award-winning documentaries about film-maker Roman Polanski and ...

Jr., Carol Kane, Ben Mankiewicz, Erick McCormack, Richard Pryor, and Peter Ostrum. As you may expect, Remembering Gene Wilder ...