Obituary: Actor Charles Grodin, 86, has died of bone marrow cancer at his home in Connecticut, his son announced.. He had a successful film career and later on he even had a public affairs show on MSNBC in the late 1990s and a stint on 60 Minutes. I used to watch his cable gig in the late nineties. For much of his life he looked younger than his age, but age finally caught up with him in his later years. It didn't help he was so sick.
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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, always getting kicked out of class.'
He studied at the University of Miami and the Pittsburgh Playhouse, worked in summer theatre and then struggled in New York, working nights as a cab driver, postal clerk and watchman while studying acting during the day.
Grodin and his first wife, Julia Ferguson, had a daughter, comedian Marion Grodin. The marriage ended in divorce. He and his second wife, Elissa Durwood, had a son, Nicholas.
After leaving the University of Miami to get his start in Hollywood films, he had a small role as a drummer boy in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in 1954.
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