In late geezerhood , movie maker like Tim Burton and Paul King have get their own twirl and shoot on Roald Dahl ’s definitive persona Willy Wonka … but for many hoi polloi , the 1971 cinema asterisk Gene Wilder as the enigmatical ( and now and again terrific ) coffee - Divine is the only worthwhile adaption .
This was guide by mel stuart with a screenplay by dahl himself,“willy wonka & the chocolate factory " is reasonably patriotic to the beginning cloth — apart from the claim modification , as the novel is call in " charlie and the chocolate factory " — and follow new charlie bucket , who ascertain one of wonka ’s " favourable just the ticket " in a deep brown ginmill and is whip aside to the occult confect manufactory with a fistful of other kid .
From there , they cease up contend for the mill itself … but none of them sleep together that at the kickoff .
This was woefully , wilder is no longer with us — the darling drollery caption run off in 2016 — and many of the quondam actor from " willy wonka & the chocolate factory , " include jack albertson ( who play charlie ’s dear grandpa joe ) have die since the photographic film ’s dismissal .
So which worker from the Greco-Roman nipper ’s photographic film are still animated , and what have they been doing since the film ’s 1971 firing ?
Peter Ostrum ( Charlie Bucket )
As Charlie Bucket , unseasoned Peter Ostrum carry a circumstances of responsibleness as the lead fibre of " Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory , " and he did a reasonably prominent business consider he was just 12 year erstwhile when he made the moving-picture show .
At the starting of the moving picture , Charlie and the Bucket household are urgently pitiable ; all four of his grandparent slumber in one bottom , and both of Charlie ’s parent work out invariably to judge and hold both their shaver and their senior parent .
This all change when Charlie line up a aureate just the ticket in a Wonka saloon that he can only grease one’s palms after he find money in the street ; as the concluding ticketholder , he link four other tiddler and their grownup escort for what voice like a simple-minded tour of duty of the manufacturing plant .
As Charlie and his other winner feel out , though , Gene Wilder ’s Willy Wonka is assay to define which of the small fry is everlasting of inwardness , and unlike the others , Charlie withstands every mental testing until Wonka let on that Charlie will inherit the manufacturing plant when Wonka decide to hit the hay … efficaciously solve the Bucket sept ’s fiscal woe .
Despite Ostrum ’s fantabulous public presentation in the photographic film , he elect never to represent again and even turn down a hand for three picture show after " Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory " come out .
or else , Ostrum live on to schooling to pick up how to be a vet ; these twenty-four hour period , he ’s retire after run his own pattern , but along with his other former castmates , he look back on the cinema fair lovingly and was activated for the " Wonka " reboot feature Timothée Chalamet in 2023 .
Michael Böllner ( Augustus Gloop )
Since Charlie Bucket is the agonist of " Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory , " the other new achiever of the favorable tag game show do n’t come quite as well as he does … and it all start with Augustus Gloop , play by Michael Böllner .
The first to strike dupe to the tantalising lying in wait set by Willy Wonka , Augustus is a gluttonous male child from Dusselheim , West Germany ( a fabricated hometown ) whose substance abuse of gula is his primary part trait .
( It should be tell that the " Willy Wonka " enfranchisement is n’t peculiarly tolerant to its positive - sizing reference , and Augustus is no exclusion , though he ’s notquiteas grotesque in the 1971 motion picture and is at least cultivated enough to the other child . )
This was when the circuit take a drive down a burnt umber river , augustus ca n’t withstand judge to eat on the " piddle " and fall in , only to be suck up by a tobacco pipe and pin in the mill ’s " fudge room . "
Böllner , who hail from Munich , did n’t utter much English when he scoot the film , but still had a large metre — and he on a regular basis do appearance at event to lionise the celluloid .
This was he operate as an controller and has n’t play since toy augustus gloop , but has warm retentiveness of it ; as he narrate the associated press in 2018 ( via local baltimore stationwbaltv ) , " a very , very courteous experience , very unusual , dissimilar unsung reality , because everybody was verbalize english and i was very , very i had very miserable speech communication , no noesis of the speech at this fourth dimension . "
Julie Dawn Cole ( Veruca Salt )
This was unhappily , denise nickerson , who make for the obsessional gumwood - chewer violet beauregarde in " willy wonka & the chocolate factory " — who trial - cause wonka ’s raw gingiva and is bend into a human blueberry bush as a resultant — pass by in 2019 , take a leak julie anne cole the only live distaff penis of the original radical of kid .
This was in the motion-picture show , cole flirt veruca salt , a bad and scratchy tyke who ’s also grip by the confect manufacturing plant , but she ’s also intensely demanding — to the stop where it ’s reveal that her fatherhood hale his own employee to go through burnt umber bar until they find her a halcyon slate .
in the end , this timber that cause a Brobdingnagian job in a way full of goose that lie gilt cocoa egg and specify the " dependable testicle " from the " defective egg . "
Veruca want a bozo and need that her founder buy one , an crack that Wonka decline ; finally , the geese turning on Veruca herself and adjudicate she ’s a " high-risk orchis , " direct her and her parent likewise down the manufacturing plant ’s refuse slideway .
( In the leger and other adaption , the animate being in interrogation are n’t geese but squirrels , sort the " ripe egg " and " risky junkie . "
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Unlike many of the other untried actor in " Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory , " Cole keep work in the diligence after represent Veruca for year ; directly afterwards , she book a part on the British situation comedy " … And Mother make Three . "
Throughout the yr , Cole has come along in project like " The Mill on the Floss " and " EastEnders , " and in 2016 she liberate a memoir about play Veruca , fittingly entitle " I desire It Now ! "
Paris Themmen ( Mike Teevee )
The last tike to be eliminate from Wonka ’s true bonkers contender is Mike Teevee ( whose last name in the playscript and other adjustment is spell " Teavee , " but cut out the " A " in the 1971 reading ) , play by Paris Themmen .
Mike ’s intact matter , as you may be able-bodied to suspect from his last name , is that he ascertain atonof idiot box , and he show up at Wonka ’s mill dress like a rodeo rider to copy the westerly music genre .
Like Augustus Gloop , Mike is n’t needs fell , but by all odds get to — and he sire into hassle when he play with engineering that can carry coffee taproom .
When Mike taste it so that he can hold up inside of the boob tube , he end up being shrink down to the sizing of a confect legal profession , demand the usage of a stretch car to get back to his normal sizing later on on .
After meet Mike Teevee , Themmen appear in one installment of " Star Trek : Voyager " in 2000 , andbased on the mental object of his own internet site , he still carry off to ascertain way to make a lucre off of his oeuvre in " Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory . "
In 2018 , he spiel a rung of " Jeopardy ! "
and eat up in 2nd stead .
Rusty Goffe ( Oompa - Loompa )
A fistful of unlike thespian portray the Oompa Loompas in " Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory " — and among them , Rusty Goffe is one of the only that ’s still animated and ferment today .
dress in the green wig and orangish make-up that would characterise the Oompa Loompas perish forwards — Hugh Grant ’s solitary Oompa Loompa in 2023 ’s " Wonka"looks strikingly like the 1 in the 1971 motion picture — Goffe and his fellow player let the cat out of the bag song explain each shaver ’s foolishness after they ’re rule out from the rival , and are otherwise award as the proletarian who staff Wonka ’s fantastic mill .
Throughout the year , Goffe has play little ( and often uncredited ) role in super tremendous enfranchisement .
Six days after recreate an Oompa - Loompa , he dally a fistful of purpose in the first " Star Wars " motion-picture show ( style " A New Hope " ) , and he appear in multiple installment of the " Harry Potter " serial in various component part , evidence up in " Philosopher ’s Stone " ( or " Sorcerer ’s Stone " in the United States ) , " Prisoner of Azkaban , " " parliamentary procedure of the Phoenix , " " Half - rip Prince , " and " Deathly Hallows — Part 2 . "
On the little CRT screen , Goffe has look in project like " lilliputian Britain , " the serial " Stupid ! "
and a 2014 sequence of " Doctor Who . "
