He played Charlie Bucket, the lead role, in 1971's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. He hasn't acted ... who played Grandpa Joe. "Both Gene and Jack couldn't have been more friendly or ...

In the decades since its 1971 release, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory has become a family ... The German actor who played Grandpa George, Ernst Ziegler, was nearly blind due to poison gas ...