Adam Schartoff · CC BY 2.0

Charles Grodin built a career on deadpan delivery as Hollywood's reliable put-upon straight man, earning a Golden Globe nomination for Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid (1972) and going on to roles in Midnight Run, Beethoven, and King Kong. He won a Primetime Emmy for co-writing Paul Simon's 1978 television special, wrote eight books and three plays, hosted a talk show on CNBC, and played Bernie Madoff's fictionalized counterpart in the 2016 miniseries Madoff.