Actor: Garry Shandling is dead – Times Online

The American comedian and actor Garry Shandling has died at the age of 66 years. He was taken to a hospital for a medical emergency from his home in Los Angeles, said the Los Angeles Police Department. Shand Lings spokesman said the doctors at the clinic were from a heart attack, even though Shandling’ve never had problems with the heart. The coroner said the death had apparently natural causes. An autopsy is therefore not planned.

Born Shandling was on November 29, 1949 in Chicago. He grew up in connection to Tucson in the US state of Arizona, before he came to L.A. as a young adult. It was not long until he made there the leap from the advertising industry into jokes business.

Shandling was in the 1980s and 1990s as a pioneer of the US- American entertainment industry. In his first successful sitcom It’s Garry Shandling’s Show he broke with the classic comedy structures by he and his actors repeatedly pointed this out directly that they were part of a comedy show.

His greatest success was the The Larry Sanders Show , which came into television in 1992 and ran for six years with 89 episodes. In it, he played in a kind of putative docudrama an egomaniacal talk show host, who had to fight backstage with all sorts of ups and downs. In this show Shandling themed always the dilemma in which he put as an actor: The two realities of public and private life. For this unusual confrontation Shand Lings show won three Emmy Awards.

After his sudden death, numerous actors testified in the US on the social networks their sympathy. Thus praised as Steve Martin, Ricky Gervais, Amy Schumer and Zach Braff Shand Ling humor, kindness and helpfulness. One of his partners in the Larry Sanders Show , Jeffrey Tambor, explained: “Garry was my dear friend and was my teacher and it always will be.” Shandling had the wheel of comedy reinvented and was the friendliest and funniest genius he had known.

Last time was seen Shandling in the two superhero films Iron Man 2 and The Return of the First Avenger . In both films the comedian embodied a US senator who faced the superpowered hero critical.