Gene Wilder, star of comedies 'Blazing Saddles' and 'Young Frankenstein,' dies

For anyone who's heard the "Oompa Loompa" song or Frankenstein pronounced as "Fronkensteen," news of actor Gene Wilder's death on Monday cuts deeply. Wilder died from complications of Alzheimer's disease at age 83, according to his nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman. Wilder passed away in his hometown of Stamford, Connecticut, late Sunday, reported the Associated Press. He had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer that originates in the lymphatic system, in 1989. Wilder was born Jerome Silberman in Milwaukee and began studying acting at age 12.