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He is an American actor, born on June 11, 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, as Jerome Silberman. His father was a Russian-Jewish immigrant, and his mother was of Russian-Jewish descent. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1955. He served in the US army from 1956 to 1958 as a paramedic in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at Valley Forge Army Hospital. He pursued an acting career in 1961, appearing in minor roles in several films, and his stardom rose quickly. He is known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Young Frankenstein (1974), and The Producers (1967). Among his many nominations and awards, he received two nominations for the Academy Awards in 1969 and 1975, and the Golden Globes in 1972 and 1977, and won the Primetime Emmy Award in 2003 and the Hugo Award in 1975. He was married four times to Mary Mercier, Mary Joan Schutz, with whom he had a son, Gilda Radner, and Karen Boyer. He was always opposed to any war fought by the United States of America. He passed away on August 29, 2016 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA.
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