{"id":27616,"date":"2021-05-18T15:39:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T19:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=27616"},"modified":"2021-05-22T09:50:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:50:35","slug":"rip-charles-grodin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=27616","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Charles Grodin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2021\/z051821rip_charlesgrodin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charles Grodin, the multitalented actor and author, died today at the age of 86 from bone cancer.\u00a0 Mr. Grodin, whose acting career spanned over 60 years worked in feature films, television and on Broadway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His first role was an uncredited part in <em>20,000 Leagues Under the Sea<\/em>.\u00a0 He then transitioned to television making guest appearances until his role in the feature film <em>Rosemary&#8217;s Baby<\/em>.\u00a0 For the rest of his career Charles Grodin alternated between feature films, television movies and tv series.\u00a0 Along the way, Mr. Grodin wrote plays, books, hosted his own talk show and was a political commentator for <em>60 Minutes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before researching Charles Grodin&#8217;s acting resume, I would have said that the first time I saw him was in <em>Rosemary&#8217;s Baby<\/em>.\u00a0 I would have been wrong.\u00a0 Prior to that film, Mr. Grodin had made appearances on television programs for well over a decade.\u00a0 I must have seen him in <em>The F.B.I.<\/em>, <em>Captain Nice<\/em>, or <em>The Guns of Will Sonnet<\/em> first.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My favorite Charles Grodin movie role was in <em>Midnight Run<\/em> with Robert DeNiro.\u00a0 I&#8217;m surprised there never was a sequel since <em>Midnight Run\u00a0<\/em>was so well received by critics and fans.\u00a0 Other memorable Charles Grodin movie appearances included roles in <em>King Kong, Heaven Can Wait, Seems Like Old Times<\/em>, and <em>Beethoven<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charles Grodin was able to stay active over the length of his acting career (on stage and screen), had the talent to write plays, memoirs, screenplays, an award-winning television special as well as host his own show &#8212; all of this is evidence of his many talents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our thoughts and prayers go out to Charles Grodin&#8217;s family, friends and fans.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Grodin, the multitalented actor and author, died today at the age of 86 from bone cancer.\u00a0 Mr. Grodin, whose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,17,53,63,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-celebs","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27617,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27616\/revisions\/27617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}