Midnight Run and Heartbreak Kid star Charles Grodin dies aged 86
18 May, 2021 09:00 PM
6 minutes to read Actor/comedian Charles Grodin pictured in 1994. He died from bone marrow cancer aged 86. Photo / AP Actor/comedian Charles Grodin pictured in 1994. He died from bone marrow cancer aged 86. Photo / AP
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Charles Grodin, the droll, offbeat actor and writer who scored as a caddish newlywed in The Heartbreak Kid and later had roles ranging from Robert De Niro s counterpart in the comic thriller Midnight Run to the bedeviled father in the Beethoven comedies, has died. He was 86.
Grodin died Tuesday in Wilton, Connecticut, from bone marrow cancer, his son, Nicholas Grodin, said.
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Charles Grodin, star of Midnight Run and Heartbreak Kid, dies at 86 The actor died on Tuesday (May 18) at his home in Connecticut from bone marrow cancer.
Actor/comedian Charles Grodin died on May 18, 2021 at his home in Wilton, Connecticut, from bone marrow cancer. He was 86. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)
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Charles Grodin, the droll, offbeat actor and writer who scored as a caddish newlywed in The Heartbreak Kid and later had roles ranging from Robert De Niro s counterpart in the comic thriller Midnight Run to the bedeviled father in the Beethoven comedies, has died. He was 86.
The Lonely Guy actor remembers his late co-star in a tribute post, describing the latter as one of the funniest people he d ever met following news of his passing.
The offbeat American actor died from bone marrow cancer on Tuesday
Charles Grodin in the film Beethoven , 1992. Alamy Stock Photo
Robert De Niro stands in the desert with Charles Grodin in a scene from the film Midnight Run , 1988. Getty Images The Heartbreak Kid , starring Charles Grodin and Cybill Shepherd, 1972. Getty Images
In Rosemary s Baby , Charles Grodin as Dr C C Hill, 1968. Getty Images
Actor Charles Grodin appears during the grand finale of the Night of 100 Stars benefit gala in New York s Radio City Music Hall on February 15, 1982. Grodin, the offbeat actor and writer who scored as a newlywed cad in The Heartbreak Kid and the father in the Beethoven comedies, died Tuesday at his home in Connecticut, US, from bone marrow cancer. He was 86. AP Photo