News sites got big on this. Reddit has like a dozen threads with everyone saying similar things or posting their fan art, but no one commenting; so, I'd imagine DY can do better by sharing their thoughts on this gifted man.

Folks seem to only remember him from The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and Willy Wonka. I first saw him at the theaters [[as a young man, mind you) with Richard Pryor in Stir Crazy [[and later Silver Streak on TV)-as they appeared a few films together. He was in odder roles as a man refusing to become a rhinoceros, a sheep-lover, a fox, or a Rabbi in the old west.

This was a man who persevered after the death of Gilda and Pryor [[to be sadly honest, I thought Gene had died a while back). No one could throw a fit like him, and even films that weren't that funny had some drop-dead outrageously funny scenes [[Woman, in Red,The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother, Haunted Honeymoon) like-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_RJjCBcBSsand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klwqDCaN6Uoandhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Rhxok-h80 [[with nudity), andhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwV7nDylvoA .