Gene Wilder, the reluctant comedy icon and star of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and several Mel Brooks comedies, has died at 83. The actor’s nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman said today that the actor died last night in Stamford, Connecticut from complications from Alzheimer’s disease.
http://www.wired.com/2016/08/gene-wilder-iconic-star-willy-wonka-dead-83/