He is a movie star, a screenwriter, a movie producer, a Broadway star, a Broadway producer and director, a playwright with three plays produced in New York, a television star, a television director, a writer of television specials, and a talk show host on CNBC and MSNBC for five years.

Talkers Magazine called "Charles Grodin" one of the 10 most talked about television shows in America.

He was a writer and director for "Candid Camera." He is a member of the actor's studio, a best-selling author and a monologist with his show "An Evening of Humor with Charles Grodin."

Not to mention a human rights activist whose two-year effort to gain clemency for three women sentenced under New York's harsh Rockefeller drug laws ended successfully during Christmas 1999.