Garry Marshall, the writer, director and producer who created the hit 1970s series Happy Days and directed Pretty Woman, has died aged 81.
Marshall, brother of actress/director Penny Marshall, earned a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and worked at the New York Daily News.
Former colleagues, including Henry Winkler who played Fonzie in Happy Days, were swift to pay tribute to him on social media.
In 1971 he wrote the pilot for Happy Days, which went on to debut as a series in 1974, and became America’s most popular TV show in 1976.