Remembering Gene Wilder (now on Netflix) does exactly as advertised: remember things. More specifically, it remembers one of the funniest people of the last century, the guy who played Willy Wonka and ...
Gene Wilder (1933-2016) had an unusual career. “He’s naïve,” Mel Brooks says in the documentary “Remembering Gene Wilder” of Wilder’s screen persona. “He’s innocent. He’s sweet, simple, and honest.