Open this photo in gallery: The thing was that everyone in Hollywood knew how funny he was – he just lifts a movie up with his intelligence and dry humour, James Freedman says of Charles Grodin.Grodin Family Archives Every generation gets, if not the Charles Grodin that it deserves, then the Charles Grodin that it needs. My first exposure to the droll comic genius was through the Beethoven movies in the early 1990s – you know, the ones featuring a giant, slobbering St. Bernard – which were far from great but at least acted as a gateway to Grodin’s more...