Denise Nickerson, the child star who played Violet Beauregarde in the Gene Wilder-starring film adaptation 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,' has died. By Katie Kilkenny Denise Nickerson ...

ENCINITAS, Calif. -- Leonard Stone, who played the father who accompanied chronic gum-chewer Violet Beauregarde on a tour through a far-out candy palace in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ...

On film, the gum-chewing know-it-all Violet Beauregarde blew up into a blueberry in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. These days, the woman who played Violet, Denise Nickerson lives in Denver.

ENCINITAS, Calif. - Leonard Stone, a venerable film and TV character actor best known as the father who accompanied chronic gum-chewer Violet Beauregarde on a tour through a far-out candy palace ...

The result reminds us of Violet Beauregarde's blueberry-based inflation in Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory ...

Leonard Stone, who played the father who accompanied chronic gum-chewer Violet Beauregarde on a tour through a far-out candy palace in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," has died. Nov. 5 ...