GARRY MARSHALL 'PRETTY WOMAN' DIRECTOR ' HAPPY DAYS' CREATOR DIES AT 81

            Late Garry Marshall and Julia Roberts

 

One of the nicest guys in Hollywood, the older brother of Penny Marshall also was behind TV’s The Odd Couple and Mork & Mindy.

Garry Marshall, who created and executive produced some of the most popular sitcoms on TV — Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, The Odd Couple and Mork & Mindy, among them — and directed the box-office smash Pretty Woman, has died. He was 81.

Marshall, the older brother of director-actress Penny Marshall, died, the family confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. No details of his death were immediately available.

His most recent film was the April release Mother’s Day, which reunited him with his Pretty Woman star Julia Roberts.

Marshall was born in New York City on Nov. 13, 1934, and raised on the Bronx Concourse. His father was a documentary filmmaker and his mother ran a dance studio in the basement of their apartment. He drummed his way through Northwestern University playing in jazz and Dixieland bands amongst other accomplishments. 
Rest in Peace Garry.