Gene Wilder Dead at 83

Gene Wilder Dead at 83 | Comedy great Gene Wilder has died of complications from Alzheimer's disease, his family confirmed to ABC News. He was 83.

"It is with indescribable sadness and blues, but with spiritual gratitude for the life lived that I announce the passing of husband, parent, and universal artist Gene Wilder, at his home in Stamford, Connecticut," his nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman said in a statement. "It is almost unbearable for us to contemplate our life without him."

SUBSCRIBE to ABC NEWS: abcnews
Watch More on http://abcnews.go.com/
LIKE ABC News on FACEBOOK
Facebook: abcnews
FOLLOW ABC News on TWITTER:
Twitter: abc
GOOD MORNING AMERICA'S HOMEPAGE:
https://gma.yahoo.com/

• #news_politics
• #gene_wilder_dead
• #gene_wilder
• #willy_wonka
• #blazing_saddles
• #gene_wilder_pure_imagination
• #gene_wilder_willy_wonka
• #gene_wilder_movies
• #gene_wilder_young_frankenstein
• #gene_wilder_richard_pryor
• #gene_wilder_2016
• #gene_wilder_blazing_saddles
• #gene_wilder_death
• #gene_wilder_died