GARRY MARSHALL – PNEUMONIA
Garry Marshall started his fruitful career as a joke writer and then it led him to became the writer of The Tonight Show with Jack Paar and for The Joey Bishop Show where he was accompanied by Fred Freeman who is also the writer and one of the performers of the show. He was also partnered by Jerry Belson as a writer on Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lucy Show, and The Danny Thomas Show.
Besides being a writer, he is also a film director and his notable directed films were Young Doctors in Love, Pretty Woman, Beaches, New Year’s Eve, Valentines Day, Exit to Eden, and The Princess Diaries and its sequel. In his acting career, his notable appearance was in one of the episodes of Dick Van Dyke Show and had uncredited appearances on his several directed films and his final appearance before he died was in an episode of The Odd Couple called “Madison & Son”. He may be gone with us but his legacy as a director, writer, and actor will still live on.