Gene Wilder

For a few years when I was young, the Willy Wonka movie would come to my local theater and my parents would take me.  In addition to the obvious lessons that the Oompa Loompas would sing about, I developed an interest in two other traits: entrepreneurship, and sarcasm.  It isn't the movie I give this credit to, but Gene Wilder.  A great actor and a genuine man.

The DailyMail has more on his passing.