Where are the cast of Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory now? As actors who played Veruca Salt and Mike Teavee perform in Edinburgh Fringe musical, how stars of the 1971 hit film followed very different career paths

Two kid stars from nan original Willy Wonka movie are to characteristic successful a philharmonic parody astir nan infamous Glasgow arena that near kids successful tears and parents raging.

Julie Dawn Cole and Paris Themmen will co-narrate the Willy's Candy Spectacular: A Musical Parody' astatine nan Edinburgh Fringe successful August. 

The duo played Veruca Salt and Mike Teavee successful nan classical 1971 film, which starred Gene Wilder arsenic nan wacky ever-lasting gobstopper inventor Willy Wonka. 

The family favourite, based on Roald Dahl's 1964 book, tells nan communicative of 5 schoolchildren who triumph nan chance to circuit nan magical mill belonging to candy man Wonka aft uncovering aureate tickets hidden wrong cocoa bars. 

For immoderate of nan kid stars it helped propel them into successful showbusiness careers, while others shied distant from nan limelight successful favour of a life arsenic an accountant aliases vet. 

With Wonka backmost successful nan news today, MailOnline has taken a look astatine wherever nan stars of nan deed movie are now. 

Julie Dawn Cole

The 66-year-old played spoilt brat Veruca Salt - nan woman that ever wanted more.

She ends up plummeting down a garbage chute successful nan movie erstwhile she stands connected an eggdicator erstwhile it shows her to beryllium a 'bad egg'.  

The mother of 2 from Guildford starred connected tv shows including Fat Families long-running soap operas Emmerdale and EastEnders, and infirmary play Holby City. 

She's now a qualified psychotherapist but regularly revisits her puerility role, having starred successful 2010 Edinburgh Fringe show Willy Wonka Revisited: The Veruca Salt Sessions.

Cole besides worked arsenic children's services head astatine Woking Hospice wherever successful 2014 she auctioned disconnected immoderate memorabilia she was fixed from nan Wonka group to raise money for nan charity. 

It included a 'golden ticket' and nan statement nan children motion successful nan movie earlier entering nan factory. 

Paris Themmen 

While he didn't afloat get his dream of becoming a TV star, Paris Themmen still useful successful nan intermezo industry.

Boston-born Themmen had acted earlier his domiciled arsenic television-mad Mike Teavee, but took an charismatic break from acting arsenic a teen 'to beryllium a kid'.

He's taken occasional tv roles successful adulthood and different careers person included flirtations pinch movie accumulation and commercialized casting.

Now 64, Themmen besides now signs autographs astatine movie conventions, runs a photography business, and makes sporadic appearances successful commercials, plays and connected TV shows.

He besides founded Access International, a recreation work that arranged Europe-bound charter flights for backpackers.

Speaking astir his clip connected group pinch Gene Wilder and his cast-mates successful Munich, wherever nan movie was mostly shot, he told Collider: 'It was astonishing because we were successful Germany, correct adjacent to Switzerland and Holland, wherever they make gorgeous chocolate. 

'And yet, they shipped Hershey bars, Almond Joys and Mounds to america from America, truthful that was a spot of a crime against cocoa and humanity that they did that. There were decidedly things for america to eat, dummy leaves and immoderate marzipan things. 

'I liked nan gum, which wasn't gum. It was really taffy. It was nan three-course gum, which wasn't gum. It was taffy, but it was very yummy. I liked that one.' 

Themmen presently resides successful Los Angeles pinch woman of nine-years Nikki Grillos. 

Gene Wilder 

Wilder was a family sanction agelong earlier he agreed to play Wonka, a determination that apparently dismayed Dahl. 

The writer had wanted legendary Irish comedian Spike Milligan to return nan domiciled earlier producers approached nan American star, who accepted connected 1 condition. 

According to legend, he said: 'When I make my first entrance, I'd for illustration to travel retired of nan doorway carrying a cane and past locomotion toward nan crowd pinch a limp. After nan crowd sees Willy Wonka is simply a cripple, they each susurration to themselves and past go deathly quiet. 

'As I locomotion toward them, my cane sinks into 1 of nan cobblestones I'm stepping connected and stands consecutive up, by itself; but I support connected walking, until I recognize that I nary longer person my cane. I commencement to autumn forward, and conscionable earlier I deed nan ground, I do a beautiful guardant somersault and bounce backmost up, to awesome applause.' 

When asked why, he added: 'From that clip on, nary 1 will cognize if I'm lying aliases telling nan truth.'

Wilder died successful 2016 aged 83 pursuing a three-year conflict pinch Alzheimer's Disease. 

Peter Ostrum 

Charlie Bucket, nan blonde-haired good-natured boy who won nan fortunate aureate ticket, is now a 66-year-old vet who lives successful New York state. 

Actor Peter Ostrum traded successful nan acting segment to go a respected veterinarian, aft getting a doctorate from prestigious American assemblage Cornell. 

He turned down a perchance lucrative three-film woody pursuing his occurrence successful Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory to ore connected his studies earlier specialising successful treating cattle and horses.

Discussing his acting profession pinch nan Daily Express in 2014, he recalled: 'I was offered a three-picture woody pinch nan studio, but I decided not to prosecute acting. Looking back, my salary cheque was paltry, but it was during filming that I really became willing successful medicine. 

'So I bought my first equine pinch my net and that started my existent profession way arsenic a vet.

'People show maine they watched Willy Wonka truthful galore times increasing up that they wore retired their VHS copy. We had nary thought we were making a classic, which moreover coined a caller phrase: 'I've recovered nan aureate ticket'.

'I will ever cherish my memories of making nan movie, but I consciousness I won nan aureate summons by becoming a vet.' 

As of September 2023 Ostrum was retired from his Countryside Veterinary Clinic successful Lowville. 

Denise Nickerson 

Denise Nickerson later revealed her domiciled arsenic chewing-gum extreme Violet Beauregarde astir costs her her teeth.

Nickerson admitted to processing 13 cavities successful her teeth while preparing for nan role. 

The erstwhile child-star claimed nan harm was was caused by nan high-sugared Bazooka gum she munched connected successful bid to get into character.

Nickerson was besides a regular connected TV shows specified arsenic Search for Tomorrow, The Brady Bunch, Dark Shadows and The Electric Company. 

Her past domiciled was Zero To Sixty successful 1978. 

Twice married, she yet discontinue acting and worked arsenic an accountant for an engineering works and arsenic an agency head astatine a doctor's office. 

In 2018 she was hospitalised aft suffering a changeable earlier submitting herself to nan attraction of family members. 

On July 8, 2019, nan erstwhile character was again rushed to infirmary pursuing an overdose of medicine medication and died connected July 10, aged 62, aft processing pneumonia and slipping into a coma. 

Nickerson's family later confirmed nan news connected Facebook pinch a connection that read: 'She's gone' earlier revealing she died successful her Colorado infirmary furniture astatine astir 10.30pm section time.

Michael Bollner

Bollner played cocoa chomping Augustus Gloop and still lives successful Germany.

He traded acting for tax; nan chubby-cheeked kid prima is now an accountant successful Munich.

The erstwhile actor, now 65, starred successful a a fistful of German connection films aft Willy Wonka, but discontinue soon aft because his begetter wanted him to decorativeness school.

Addressing his profession alteration pinch Collider, Bollner said: 'I tally a small taxation agency successful Munich, and we walk each Christmas together pinch my employees. 

'Every 2 aliases 3 years, I show nan Wonka movie. The movie is not celebrated successful Germany and my caller labor person to cognize what a prima their leader is.' 

In an earlier question and reply pinch This Morning, nan erstwhile character admitted he had nary thought nan movie would go truthful popular. 

'I conscionable went down to make this movie, stayed location for a fewer weeks and I didn't really cognize what was going on,' he recalled. 'I thought, 'This is conscionable a movie and it will slice distant very quickly.'' 

Bollner's greedy characteristic is famously sucked into a cocoa stream successful 1 celebrated segment from nan film, but he admitted it was little enjoyable than it looks on-screen.   

'It was nary cocoa astatine all, but conscionable stinking h2o lying astir for much weeks,' he told Hollywood Reporter. 'And it was acheronian water. I had to jump successful that water, which was conscionable 15 centimetres deep. 

'There was a spread astir 3 meters [wide], and I had to deed nan hole, which was not truthful easy arsenic nan h2o was very dark. So I was ever acrophobic that I will deed my caput connected nan crushed of nan river.' 

Jack Alberston 

Albertson, who played Grandpa Joe, died successful November 1981 astatine nan property of 74 from colorectal cancer.

Before his untimely decease he had a successful profession successful acting, including various stints connected Broadway and earlier Wonka he won an Academy Award For Best Supporting Actor successful 1968 for his portrayal of John Cleary successful The Subject Of Roses.

The seasoned character besides won a Tony Award for an earlier capacity successful a 1964 shape accumulation of Roses, and was honoured pinch a prima connected nan Hollywood Walk Of Fame successful 1977. 

Roy Kinnear 

A beloved English characteristic actor, Roy Kinnear had already worked pinch The Beatles connected their 1965 movie Help! earlier starring arsenic Henry Salt successful Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory. 

His extended movie and TV profession spanned much than 40-years and included roles successful Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, The Four Musketeers, Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo and Hawk The Slayer. 

The character welcomed 3 children during his 18-year matrimony to character Carmel Cryan, pinch 2 of them pursuing their begetter into nan intermezo industry.

Rory Kinnear would spell connected to go a hugely successful character successful his ain right, while Kirsty would embark connected a profession down nan camera, arsenic a casting director. 

The couple's eldest girl was a paraplegic and struggled pinch learning difficulties earlier her decease successful May 2020. 

Kinnear tragically died aged 54 connected September 19 1988 aft falling from a equine while filming The Return Of The Musketeers successful Spain. 

Rusty Goffe 

Rusty Goffe starred arsenic nan caput Oompa Loompa, and arsenic specified was 1 of nan fewer to person a in installments connected nan film.

The Kent-born actor, now 75, enjoyed a successful profession aft Willy Wonka and was past seen connected surface successful 2016.

He appeared successful Flash Gordon (1980), Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 5 of nan 7 Harry Potter films.

Rusty, who was 22 erstwhile nan movie was made, said he was 'very proud' to beryllium a portion of nan Willy Wonka and nan Chocolate Factory film, adding: 'When we were doing it we didn't realise it was going to beryllium arsenic big.

'It was made for adults by nan way, not for children. It was made for adults. And adults and children alike loved it.'

He paid tribute to Wilder erstwhile he died successful 2016 calling him 'an astonishing man, he was very gentle, very quiet, but he knew what he wanted'. 

'He was a very very funny man and it showed successful nan movie. He had a magical aura astir him and it really showed,' he said.