Fred Savage will not be overseeing the reboot of The Marvel Years after Disney fired the actor and director over allegations of misconduct.

Savage was fired as government producer and director of the collection following an investigation into complaints of his conduct, Deadline reported Friday. Whereas few particulars surrounding Savage's dismissal can be found, he's among the many rising record of celebrities dealing with scrutiny amid a reckoning over office harassment in movie and tv manufacturing.

"Just lately, we have been made conscious of allegations of inappropriate conduct by Fred Savage, and as is coverage, an investigation was launched," a spokesman for twentieth Tv, a subsidiary of Disney, instructed Deadline in a press release. "Upon its completion, the choice was made to terminate his employment as an government producer and director of The Marvel Years."

Savage is extensively identified for taking part in Kevin Arnold within the unique iteration of The Marvel Years, a coming-of-age comedy that aired between 1988 and 1993. The collection centered on Arnold's life rising up together with his household within the Sixties and Nineteen Seventies and notably featured nostalgic narrations from an older model of the character.

Fred Savage at SiriusXM Studios
Actor Fred Savage was lately fired by Disney as a director and government producer of 'The Marvel Years' tv reboot over accusations of misconduct. Pictured, Savage visits the SiriusXM Studios in New York Metropolis on July 23, 2019.Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Pictures

The unique star of the present returned for the reboot that targeted on 12-year-old Dean Williams and his Black middle-class household in Montgomery, Alabama. Don Cheadle offered the narration of an older Dean Williams. The reboot premiered on ABC in September 2021.

Savage and Twentieth-Century Fox have been sued in 2018 over accusations the actor harassed a feminine crew member on the set of The Grinder.

The unnamed crew member accused Savage of making an uncomfortable work atmosphere by hanging her after brushing dandruff off his clothes. The crew member additionally alleged Savage spoke angrily to her in entrance of others, amongst different accusations.

Savage denied the allegations.

"I've been working within the leisure business my entire life and have all the time endeavored to deal with everybody on any set I work on respectfully and professionally," Savage mentioned in a press release obtained by Newsweek. "Whereas not one of the accusations being leveled at me are true, I wholeheartedly assist all individuals who really feel they're being mistreated come ahead and communicate to human assets and people in cost."

Monique Lengthy, a dressing up designer, accused Savage and Jason Hervey, who performed his brother on The Marvel Years, of harassing her on set and filed a lawsuit in opposition to the 2 because the collection ended, in keeping with Vainness Truthful.

Newsweek reached out to Disney and a consultant of Savage for remark.