Garry Marshall

Born

November 13, 1934

Died

July 19, 2016 (aged 81)

Known as

film director, film producer, screenwriter, writer, actor, voice actor

Garry Kent Marshall was an American screenwriter, director, producer and actor. Marshall began his career in the 1960s as a writer for The Lucy Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show until he developed the television adaptation of Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple. He rose to fame in the 1970s for creating the ABC sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984).

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