Gene Wilder listening to one of his favorite songs, a rendition of "Over the Rainbow" sung by Ella Fitzgerald. Gene Wilder Jerome Silberman (June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016), known professionally as Gene Wilder, was an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, singer-songwriter and author. Wilder began his career on stage, and made his screen debut in an episode of the TV series "The Play of the Week" in 1961. Although his first film role was portraying a hostage in the 1967 motion picture "Bonnie and Clyde", Wilder's first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1967 film "The Producers" for
V. J. Jerome 1953 to three years at Lewisburg Penitentiary, which he served between 1954 and 1957. Following his release, he began writing a novel based on the life of Spinoza. He died in 1965, at the age of 68. V. J. Jerome Victor Jeremy Jerome (1896–1965) was a Polish-American communist writer and editor. He is best remembered as a Marxist cultural essayist and as the long-time editor of the theoretical journal of the Communist Party USA. (Jerome) Isaac Romain, better known by the pseudonym "Victor Jeremy Jerome," was born in Lodz or Strykov, Poland, on October 12, 1896. According to the 1911