FILE - 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 Feb. 15, 1982. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, File)
FILE - Actor/comedian Charles Grodin, appears at a news conference announcing him as host of CNBC s new primetime show Charles Grodin in New York on Nov. 15, 1994. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)
FILE - Charles Grodin attends the Ripple of Hope Awards in New York on Dec. 11, 2013. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - Actor Charles Grodin appears at a screening of the environmental documentary Planet in Peril, in New York on Oct. 8, 2007. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff, File)
American actor and talk show host Charles Grodin has died at the age of 86.
The actor was best known for his roles in
Midnight Run and
Beethoven.
His son, Nicholas confirmed that he died at his home on Tuesday from bone marrow cancer.
US actor, talk-show host and writer Charles Grodin, best known for his comic deadpan performances in films such as
Midnight Run and
Grodin starred alongside Robert De Niro in action-comedy
Midnight Run, as well as in the 1976 remake of
King Kong and a Golden Globe-nominated lead role in rom-com
The Heartbreak Kid.
Early in his career he had a minor role as a doctor in Roman Polanski s horror classic
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
US actor, talk-show host and writer Charles Grodin, best known for his comic deadpan performances in films such as
Midnight Run and
Grodin starred alongside Robert De Niro in action-comedy
Midnight Run, as well as in the 1976 remake of
King Kong and a Golden Globe-nominated lead role in rom-com
The Heartbreak Kid.
Early in his career, he had a minor role as a doctor in Roman Polanski s horror classic
Rosemary s Baby, and he later played a suburban dad in the popular canine family comedy
Beethoven.
Grodin died Tuesday at his home in Wilton, Connecticut, his son Nicholas confirmed. So said (sic) to hear. One of the funniest people I ever met, tweeted US comedy legend Steve Martin.