HEARTBREAK & BIG LAUGHS

ANIMAL NATURE “I grew up near a zoo in Pittsburgh, so I would hear lions roaring in the night as a child,” said Charles, seen as a Peabody High School senior in 1953. HAVE A HEART Charles said

his 1972 comedy The Heartbreak Kid “was a brilliant movie,” but felt

his character — a young man who dumps his wife on their honeymoon

for Cybill Shepherd’s character — was “more frightening than funny.” STARSTRUCK When he met director and costar Warren Beatty [left] on 1978’s hit Heaven

Can Wait, “I said to myself, that’s the bestlooking person I’ve ever seen in my life. I’m quitting the business right now,” he quipped.

SHOWDOWN He played a D.A. jealous of his wife’s ex (Chevy Chase) in the 1980 comedy Seems Like Old Times and calls co-star

Goldie Hawn “a doll to work with, incredibly talented.” A DOG’S LIFE After acting in many supporting roles, Charles quipped that he was “second lead to the dog in Beethoven,” his 1992 family comedy and its 1993 sequel. “I’ve

moved up.” SPEAK UP When his 1995–’98 show was canceled, Charles thanked CNBC “for allowing an ordinary citizen to go on [TV] every night and say whatever I wanted. That has to be a first, maybe a last.” HE’S BACK “I play Sienna Miller’s grandfather in a movie called The Private Life of a Modern Woman, shown at the [2017] Venice Film Festival.”