What is Garry Marshall?
{{Infobox person | image = Garry Marshall 2013 cropped.jpg | caption = Marshall in 2013 | birth_name = Garry Kent Marshall | birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|11|13}}<ref>{{cite news|title=Monitor|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_entertainment-weekly_2011-11-18_1181/page/34|newspaper=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=Nov 18, 2011|issue=1181|pages=34}}</ref> | birth_place = [[The Bronx]], [[New York City]], [[U.S.]] | death_date= {{Death date and age|2016|7|19|1934|11|13}} | death_place = [[Burbank, California]], U.S. | occupation = Actor, director, writer, producer | years_active = 1961–2016 | spouse = Barbara Marshall<br>(m. 1963–2016, his death) | children = 3 (including [[Scott Marshall]]) | alma_mater = [[Northwestern University]] | relatives = [[Penny Marshall]], [[Ronny Hallin]] (sisters) }} '''Garry Marshall''' (November 13, 1934 &ndash; July 19, 2016) was an [[Americans|American]] [[writer]], [[producer]], director and [[actor]]. ==Career== Marshall wrote for [[comedian]]s [[Joey Bishop]] and [[Phil Foster]]. Soon he moved on to writing for [[television series]], including ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' and ''[[The Tonight Show]]''. In 1970, he adapted the [[Neil Simon]] play and 1968 [[movie]] ''[[The Odd Couple]]'' into a popular television series starring [[Tony Randall]] and [[Jack Klugman]]. It was very successful. Marshall worked on ''[[Happy Days]]'', ''[[Laverne and Shirley]]'' (which co-starred his sister [[Penny Marshall|Penny]]), and ''[[Mork and Mindy]]''. Both of there were [[spin-off]]s from ''Happy Days'' and just as successful and well-known. He [[movie director|directed]] and acted in several [[movie]]s including ''[[Pretty Woman]]'' and ''[[Runaway Bride]]''. Marshall also ran and works out of a local [[community]] [[theatre]] house in [[Los Angeles]], [[The Falcon Theatre]]. ==Death== On the morning of July 19, 2016, Marshall, aged 81, died at a hospital in [[Burbank, California]], due to complications of [[pneumonia]] after suffering a stroke.<ref>{{cite news|title=TV, film legend Gar