Charles Grodin
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1935-04-21
Deathday 2021-05-18 (86 years old)
Place of Birth Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Charles Grodin
Biography
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 often cast as a put-upon straight man, Grodin became familiar as a supporting actor in many Hollywood comedies of the era, including Real Life (1979), Seems Like Old Times (1980), The Great Muppet Caper (1981), Ishtar (1987), Dave (1993), and Clifford (1994). Grodin co-starred in the action comedy Midnight Run (1988) and in the family film Beethoven (1992). He made frequent appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Late Night with David Letterman. In the mid-1990s, Grodin retired from acting and wrote autobiographies; he became a talk show host on CNBC and in 2000 a political commentator for 60 Minutes II. He returned to acting with a handful of roles in the mid-2010s, including in Louis C.K.'s FX show Louie and Noah Baumbach's film While We're Young (2014). Grodin won several awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special in 1978 for the Paul Simon Special alongside Chevy Chase, Lorne Michaels, Paul Simon, and Lily Tomlin. He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for The Heartbreak Kid in 1972. He won Best Actor at the 1988 Valladolid International Film Festival for Midnight Run, and the American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for his performance in Dave in 1993. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Grodin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Actor
as Self
as Arthur
as Dick D'Angelo
as Carl Shapiro
as Leslie Breitbart
as Jerry
as Father
as Steve Henry
as Self
as (archive footage)
as Self
as Bob Kowalski
as Brett Forrester
as Self
as Nicky Holiday (archive footage)
as Mr. Parker (The Old Man)
as Martin Daniels
as George Newton
as Harrison Winslow
as Commandeered Car Driver
as Murray Blum
as George Newton
as Narrator (Voice)
as Spencer Barnes
as Quentin Fitzwaller
as Jonathan Mardukas
as Mr. Glerman
as George Matlin
as Jim Harrison
as Self
as George Lollar
as Cane Kensington
as Herb Derman
as Buddy
as Warren
as Lord Fancourt Babberly
as Self
as Nicky Holiday
as Vance Kramer
as Ira Parks
as Homer
as Jake
as Warren Yeager
as Jim Benson
as Tony Abbott
as Michael Lindsay
as Arnie Doud, Harge Gang
as Joseph
as Self
as Martin Cramer
as Fred S. Wilson
as Self - Host
as Howard R. Chesser
as Lenny Cantrow
as Jake
as Himself
as Captain Aarfy Aardvark
as Dr. Hill
as Bells Pickering
as News Vendor
as Jed
as Carl Platt
as Mark Dunigan
as Bob
as Arnie Doud
as Thomas Martin
as Drummer Boy (uncredited)
Writer
Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
Producer
as Producer
as Producer