Comedy Star Gene Wilder Passes Away

Man, there goes another from my childhood. Actor Gene Wilder, best known for his many Mel Brooks movies including Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, has passed away at age 83.

The two-time Oscar nominee also starred as a quirky candy man in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and in four films alongside stand-up legend Richard Pryor.

In 1999, Wilder was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma and treated with radiation and stem cell transplants. No details of his death were immediately available.

Wilder will forever be remembered for his ill-fated Hollywood romance with Gilda Radner. Less than two years after they were married, the popular Saturday Night Live star was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and died on May 20, 1989, at age 42.

Now he and Gilda are reunited.

RIP Mr. Wilder