Charles Grodin

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 1935-04-21

Died: 2021-05-18

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1954	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Drummer Boy (uncredited)	70
2	1964	Sex and the College Girl	Bob	40
3	1968	Rosemary's Baby	Dr. Hill	78
4	1969	Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America	Self	0
5	1970	Catch-22	Captain Aarfy Aardvark	67
6	1972	The Heartbreak Kid	Lenny Cantrow	66
7	1974	11 Harrowhouse	Howard R. Chesser	57
8	1976	King Kong	Fred S. Wilson	63
9	1977	Thieves	Martin Cramer	37
10	1977	The Paul Simon Special	Self	80
11	1977	It Happened One Christmas	Joseph	44
12	1978	The Meanest Men in the West	Arnie Doud, Harge Gang	41
13	1978	Just Me and You	Michael Lindsay	50
14	1978	Heaven Can Wait	Tony Abbott	66
15	1978	The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank	Jim Benson	0
16	1979	Real Life	Warren Yeager	66
17	1979	Sunburn	Jake	50
18	1980	It's My Turn	Homer	56
19	1980	Seems Like Old Times	Ira Parks	63
20	1981	The Incredible Shrinking Woman	Vance Kramer	54
21	1981	The Great Muppet Caper	Nicky Holiday	69
22	1982	Night of 100 Stars	Self	67
23	1983	Charley's Aunt	Lord Fancourt Babberly	0
24	1984	The Lonely Guy	Warren	63
25	1984	The Woman in Red	Buddy	63
26	1985	Movers & Shakers	Herb Derman	37
27	1986	Last Resort	George Lollar	32
28	1986	King Kong! The Living Legend	Self	0
29	1987	Ishtar	Jim Harrison	45
30	1988	The Couch Trip	George Matlin	55
31	1988	You Can't Hurry Love	Mr. Glerman	45
32	1988	Midnight Run	Jonathan Mardukas aka “The Duke”	72
33	1990	The Muppets at Walt Disney World	Quentin Fitzwaller	64
34	1990	Taking Care of Business	Spencer Barnes	63
35	1992	Beethoven	George Newton	58
36	1993	Dave	Murray Blum	67
37	1993	So I Married an Axe Murderer	Commandeered Car Driver	61
38	1993	Heart and Souls	Harrison Winslow	69
39	1993	Beethoven's 2nd	George Newton	55
40	1994	Clifford	Martin Daniels	51
41	1994	Sesame Street \| All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!	Chaz	70
42	1994	It Runs in the Family	Mr. Parker (The Old Man)	53
43	1994	The World of Jim Henson	Nicky Holiday (archive footage)	73
44	2002	The Ultimate Collection starring Johnny Carson - The Best of the 70s and 80s		0
45	2006	The Ex	Bob Kowalski	53
46	2007	Paul Simon and Friends \| The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song	Self	62
47	2011	The Harmony Game	Self	73
48	2012	Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen	(archive footage)	76
49	2012	Char·ac·ter	Self	40
50	2013	Brazzaville Teen-Ager	Father	57
51	2014	The Humbling	Jerry	51
52	2015	While We're Young	Leslie Breitbart	60
53	2016	The Comedian	Dick D'Angelo	57
54	2017	An Imperfect Murder	Arthur	35
55	2017	Waiting for Ishtar	Self	0
56	2025	Charles Grodin: Rebel With a Cause		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1961	The Defenders	Thomas Martin	62
2	1962	The Virginian	Arnie Doud	65
3	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
4	1964	The Young Marrieds	Matt Crane Stevens	30
5	1965	My Mother the Car		43
6	1965	The Big Valley	Mark Dunigan	61
7	1965	The F.B.I.	Carl Platt	55
8	1966	Shane	Jed	60
9	1966	Felony Squad		64
10	1967	Captain Nice	News Vendor	57
11	1967	Judd for the Defense		75
12	1967	The Guns of Will Sonnett	Bells Pickering	62
13	1971	The Great American Dream Machine	Himself	0
14	1971	Great Performances	Jake	53
15	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
16	1976	Laverne & Shirley		73
17	1986	Fresno	Cane Kensington	64
18	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark		56
19	1992	Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories	Narrator (Voice)	100
20	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
21	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Brett Forrester	79
22	2013	The Michael J. Fox Show	Steve Henry	59
23	2016	Madoff	Carl Shapiro	64

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