Farewell to Charles Grodin, face of “King Kong” and “Beethoven”

The last part is dated five years ago, but, before deciding to retire in 2016, Charles Grodin he has acted in over sixty productions, including films and television shows. The actor, who passed away on Tuesday evening due to the consequences of bone marrow cancer, was the face and interpreter of iconic roles, sublimated – all – in King Kong. Back then, it was 1976, Grodin was playing Fred Wilson, the other man, much less important than Jeff Bridges, and more determined to pursue the economic interest of his company.

Grodin, in King Kong, did not have a prominent part, but that was enough to give him a popularity that, a few years later, would have reached its peak.

Between the eighties and nineties, the actor was able to extricate himself between the most disparate roles, taking part in Heaven can wait, Beethoven, Before midnight e The lady in red. Then, the cycle stopped. In the 2000s, Grodin didn’t want to do much. A few films, four in total, and an appearance on a TV show. The disease, perhaps, had already begun to advance. But the search for a reason, in the decision to gradually move away from the spotlight, would be bound to the rank of speculation, because everything the family said, in announcing his death, concerns the serenity with which Grodin – who in the 1970s refused the leading role in it The bachelor, then assigned to Dustin Hoffman – he’s gone. At his home in Connecticut at the age of eighty-six.

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