- Born
- Died
- Birth nameGarry Emmanuel Shandling
- Height5′ 10½″ (1.79 m)
- Garry Shandling was born on November 29, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Larry Sanders Show (1992), It's Garry Shandling's Show. (1986) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014). He died on March 24, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- ParentsIrving ShandlingMuriel Shandling
- RelativesBarry Shandling(Sibling)Derek Goldsmith(Cousin)
- Jokes about his hard-to-manage hair (in his stand-up comedy and television series).
- Distinctive low-key, often whiny voice
- In his last appearance on TV in a 20 January 2016 episode of Jerry Seinfeld's "Comedians in Cars getting Coffee" they talk almost exclusively about death and dying, and what Mr. Shandling wanted at his funeral titled "It great that Garry Shandling is still alive." Three months later he was dead of a pulmonary embolism.
- Wrote for television early in his career on such shows as Sanford and Son (1972) and Welcome Back, Kotter (1975). An automobile accident left him in critical condition. It was during recovery that he decided to get into stand-up comedy.
- Turned down an offer from NBC to take over "Late Night With..." after David Letterman left for CBS, because he was launching The Larry Sanders Show (1992).
- Grew up in Tucson, Arizona. He attended Palo Verde High School and the University of Arizona. He initially majored in electrical engineering, but graduated with a degree in marketing. He studied creative writing for a year as a grad student.
- He was born to a Jewish family (from Skuodas, Lithuania and Odessa, Ukraine on his father's side, and from Austria, Romania, and Poland on his mother's side).
- Women need to know that not all guys are going to hurt them the way that the guy did before they started dating me. I know guys I wouldn't go out with.
- I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content
