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May 18, 2021 · Charles Grodin, the droll, offbeat actor and writer who starred as a caddish newlywed in The Heartbreak Kid and the father in the Beethoven comedies, died Tuesday at 86.. Grodin had bone marrow ...
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May 19, 2021 · Grodin spent his career unfurling the unique, pent-up zaniness of the “straight man” character—the alienating, isolating, often torturous nature of being the only normal, rational, calm person around, while everyone else is going insane. But readers of this site in particular might remember him best in the 1988 buddy-crime-comedy Midnight ...
May 18, 2021 · Charles Grodin, an American actor whose comic roles in films such as Midnight Run and Beethoven brought smiles to faces for decades, has died at 86. Grodin died at his home in Wilton, Connecticut ...
May 18, 2021 · The youngest of two sons, Charles Grodin was born on April 21, 1935, and raised in the Highland Park section of Pittsburgh. His father owned a store that sold supplies like zippers, buttons and ...
May 18, 2021 · Dario Cantatore/Getty Images. On Tuesday, May 18, 2021, "Beethoven" and "The Heartbreak Kid" actor Charles Grodin died of bone marrow cancer in his Wilton, Connecticut home, according to what his son Nicholas told The New York Times. He was 86 years old. In the later years of his life, Grodin picked parts based on their proximity to Connecticut.
May 18, 2021 · Grodin was born Charles Grodinsky in Pittsburgh in 1935, son of a wholesale dry goods seller who died when Charles was 18. He played basketball and later described himself as “a rough kid ...
May 18, 2021 · Charles Sidney Grodin (April 21, 1935 – May 18, 2021) was an American actor, comedian, author, and television talk show host. Grodin began his acting career in the 1960s appearing in TV serials including The Virginian. After a small part in Rosemary's Baby in 1968, he played the lead in Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid (1972) and supporting roles in Mike Nichols's Catch-22 (1970), the 1976 remake of King Kong, and Warren Beatty's Heaven Can Wait (1978). Known for his deadpan delivery and ...
