Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) Cast and Crew

1. Mel Stuart

Producer | Running on the Sun: The Badwater 135

Mel Stuart was born on September 2, 1928 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Running on the Sun: The Badwater 135 (2000), Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and The Making of the President 1960 (1963). He was married to Roberta Frances Silberman ...

2. Stan Margulies

Producer | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Stan Margulies was born on December 14, 1920 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer, known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Spartacus (1960) and Roots (1977). He was married to Ferne Margulies and Lillian Margulies. He died on February 27, 2001 in Los Angeles, ...

3. David L. Wolper

Producer | L.A. Confidential

David L. Wolper was born on January 11, 1928 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and director, known for L.A. Confidential (1997), Murder in the First (1995) and The Race for Space (1959). He was married to Gloria Hill, Dawn Richard and Toni Carroll. He died on August 10, 2010 in ...

4. Roald Dahl

Writer | The Witches

Dahl was born in Wales in 1916. He served as a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He made a forced landing in the Libyan Desert and was severely injured. As a result, he spent five months in a Royal Navy hospital in Alexandria. Dahl is noted for how he relates suspenseful and...

5. Arthur Ibbetson

Cinematographer | The Bounty

Arthur Ibbetson was born on September 8, 1922 in Bishop Auckland, Durham, England, UK. He was a cinematographer, known for The Bounty (1984), Where Eagles Dare (1968) and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971). He died on October 19, 1997 in Hillingdon, Greater London, England, UK.

6. David Saxon

Editor | National Geographic Specials

David Saxon was born on June 23, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an editor and producer, known for National Geographic Specials (1965), The Living Sands of Namib (1978) and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971). He died on July 5, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

7. Gene Wilder

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

When he was 11, he wanted to be a comedian like Sid Caesar. Then, when he was 15 and saw Lee J. Cobb in 'Death of a Salesman,' he decided he would be a comedy actor and found that Mel Brooks was a great influence on his screen writing. He combined both talents with directing in The World's Greatest...

8. Jack Albertson

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

A former song-and-dance man and veteran of vaudeville, burlesque and Broadway, Jack Albertson is best known to audiences as "The Man" in the TV series Chico and the Man (1974), for which he won an Emmy. In 1968 Albertson, the brother of actress Mabel Albertson, won the Oscar for Best Supporting ...

9. Peter Ostrum

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Peter Ostrum was born on November 1, 1957 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Sicko (2007) and Remembering Gene Wilder (2023). He has been married to Loretta Lepkowski since 1987. They have two children.

10. Roy Kinnear

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

After his schooling in Edinburgh, the British character actor Roy Kinnear attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Following national service, Kinnear appeared on stage, radio, and television in Scotland before becoming a household name in Britain in the early 1960s as one of the ...

11. Julie Dawn Cole

Actress | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Julie Dawn Cole is an English actress from Guildford, Surrey. She is primarily remembered for playing the insatiably greedy and demanding character of Veruca Salt in the fantasy film "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" (1971). This was her film debut, and the first adaptation of the novel "...

12. Leonard Stone

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Leonard Stone was born on November 3, 1923 in Salem, Oregon, USA. He was an actor, known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Soylent Green (1973) and I Spy (1965). He was married to Carole H. Kleinman. He died on November 2, 2011 in Encinitas, California, USA.

13. Denise Nickerson

Actress | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Denise Nickerson was best known for her role as Violet Beauregarde in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and as a member of the Short Circus on The Electric Company (1971). She left the acting business at the end of 1993, and she worked as a nurse and later a stay at home mom. She will ...

14. Nora Denney

Actress | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Nora Denney was born on September 3, 1927 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Splash (1983) and The Witching Hour (1958). She was married to Alan Denney. She died on November 20, 2005 in Crestline, California, USA.

15. Paris Themmen

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

The former child actor Paris Themmen was born on June 25th, 1959 in Boston, Massachusetts, the self-proclaimed "Hub" of the Universe, to classical musicians. Young Paris first appeared on stage in 1965, while his parents were performing in summer stock in Michigan. After the family returned to New ...

16. Ursula Reit

Actress | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Ursula Reit was born on March 5, 1914 in Wuppertal, Germany. She was an actress, known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Der Teufelsschüler (1973) and The Devil's Female (1974). She died on November 9, 1998 in Germany.

17. Michael Bollner

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Michael Bollner was born on September 14, 1958 in Munich, Germany. He is an actor, known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), M.U.G.E.N (1999) and Bizarre Transmissions from the Bermuda Triangle (2015).

18. Diana Sowle

Actress | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Diana Sowle was born on June 19, 1930 in Chico, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Clear and Present Danger (1994) and Guarding Tess (1994). She was married to Robert K Gibson and William David Sowle. She died on October 19, 2018 in the ...

19. Aubrey Woods

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Aubrey entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art after winning a Leverhulme Scholarship in 1954. He left after two years to work in rep at Worthing, Richmond, Palmer's Green and Leatherhead. He did seasons at Startford on Avon and Regents Park Open Air and appeared in West End productions of "Men ...

20. David Battley

Actor | Krull

David Battley (5 November 1935 - 20 January 2003) was a British actor specialising in laconic, lugubrious comedy roles. The elder son of John Battley, post-WW2 Labour MP, David was born in Battersea, London. Born with a hole in the heart, he was initially taught at home before attending a special ...

21. Günter Meisner

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Günter Meisner was born on April 18, 1926 in Bremen, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), The Boys from Brazil (1978) and In a Glass Cage (1986). He was married to Gisela Albrecht Meisner. He died on December 5, 1994 in Berlin, Germany.

22. Peter Capell

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Peter Capell was born on September 3, 1912 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), One, Two, Three (1961) and Paths of Glory (1957). He died on March 3, 1986 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.

23. Werner Heyking

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Werner Heyking was born on June 14, 1913 in Denmark. He was an actor, known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Bloody Friday (1972) and Tatort (1970). He died on October 10, 1974 in Denmark.

24. Peter Stuart

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Peter Stuart was born in 1958. He is a producer and director, known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Another State of Mind (1984) and En Berline à Berlin (2009).

25. Rusty Goffe

Actor | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2

Rusty Goffe was born on October 30, 1948 in Herne Bay, Kent, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), Flash Gordon (1980) and Fred Claus (2007). He is married to Sarah. They have two children.

26. Rudy Borgstaller

27. George Claydon

Actor | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

George Claydon was born on September 4, 1933 in Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1967), The Last Days of Pompeii (1984) and Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989). He died on October 4, 2001 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK.

28. Malcolm Dixon

Self | When Vacations Attack

29. Ismed Hassan

Actor | Countess Dracula

Ismed Hassan was an actor, known for Countess Dracula (1971), Blake's 7 (1978) and From a Bird's Eye View (1970).

30. Norman McGlen

Actor | The Tomorrow People

Norman McGlen was born on June 17, 1911 in Sunderland, Tyne & Wear, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Tomorrow People (1973), Moviemakers (1971) and Casanova (1971). He died on May 6, 1976 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK.

31. Angelo Muscat

Actor | The Prisoner

Angelo Muscat was born on September 24, 1930 in Malta. He was an actor, known for The Prisoner (1967) and Doctor Who (1963). He died on October 10, 1977 in England, UK.

32. Pepi Poupee

Actress | Doctor Who

Pepi Poupee is known for Doctor Who (1963) and Angelo My Love (1983).

33. Marcus Powell

Writer | Single Voices

Actor, writer and character comedian Marcus Powell made numerous appearances on comedy series in the 1990's, including The Real McCoy (1994), The A Force (1997), and channel 4's A Blagger's Guide To Black History (1999) (winner of the Race In The Media award for Best TV Entertainment 2000) but is ...

34. Albert Wilkinson

Actor | Labyrinth

Albert Wilkinson was born in 1938 in Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Labyrinth (1986), Countess Dracula (1971) and A Little in Tents (2017).