Pretty Woman. Happy Days. The Princess Diaries. Just one of Garry Marshall's credits would be enough to make someone else happy, but he had a list of them that would fill several pages. The director, producer and actor has died aged 81.
Marshall was born Garry Kent Maschiarelli in the Bronx in 1934, and while he graduated from journalism school, he saw his first career success writing jokes for comedians and winning a place on the writing staff of The Tonight Show With Jack Paar.
Television was where he made his name, working on series such as The Lucy Show and The Dick Van Dyke, before going on to create a successful TV adaptation of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple in 1970. That led to other things, include the smash hit Happy Days, which itself spawned several spin-offs including Laverne & Shirley and Mork And Mindy.
He made his cinema directing debut with 1982 comedy Young Doctors In Love, and would go on to make some hugely successful films, working several times with Julia Roberts on such movies as Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride and Valentine's Day. He also made the two Princess Diaries films with Anne Hathaway, and had been planning a third. His other notable films include The Flamingo Kid, The Other Sister, Frankie & Johnny and The Flamingo Kid, with many more on his CV.
Yet he was also a fixture in front of the camera, scoring an early job on Goldfinger (albeit uncredited as a hoodlum), and appeared in a vast swathe of shows and films, stealing scenes wherever he went.
He's survived by his wife, Barbara, a son and two daughters, all of whom entered the entertainment business alongside sisters Penny Marshall and Ronny Hallin, a TV producer.