Charles Grodin, star of Midnight Run and Heartbreak Kid, dies aged 86

Charles Grodin (Marty Lederhandler/AP)

Charles Grodin, the offbeat actor and writer who starred as a newlywed cad in The Heartbreak Kid and the father in the Beethoven comedies, has died at the age of 86.

Grodin’s son Nicholas said his father died on Tuesday at his home in Wilton, Connecticut, from bone marrow cancer.