Garry Kent Marshall was an American film director, film producer, screenwriter, comedian, and actor. For Disney, he directed the 2001 Disney comedy film The Princess Diaries and its 2004 sequel The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, voiced Buck Cluck in the 2005 Disney animated feature film Chicken Little in which he reprised the role again in the video game of the same name, voiced and Soda Jerk in Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero, played Dr. Donald Harlan in the 2009 Disney film Race to Witch Mountain, "The Devil" in Hocus Pocus (where he appeared opposite his real life sister, Penny Marshall, who played his wife), voiced an off-screen stagehand in It's Tough to Be a Bug!, and played Vic DeFazerellli in the Liv and Maddie episode "Space Werewolf-a-Rooney".
He also directed the Touchstone Pictures films Pretty Woman, Raising Helen, The Other Sister, and Beaches.
Outside of Disney, among his other film and television credits, he was well-known as the creator of the ABC sitcoms The Odd Couple, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, and Mork and Mindy.
On July 19, 2016, Marshall died at a hospital in Burbank, California of pneumonia at the age of 81.