Carl Reiner's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) The Dick Van Dyke Show Alan Brady Father of the Pride Sarmoti Linus! The Lion Hearted Billie Bird The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967) Carl Reiner The Merv Griffin Show Carl Reiner Caesar's Hour Various Cavalcade of Stars Carl Reiner Sid Caesar Invites You Various Caesar Presents Various (2) Sid Caesar Invites You (UK) Various Sunday Best (1991) Himself - H… The Celebrity Game Host (2) The Movie Game Carl Reiner The Name's the Same panelist (5) Your Show of Shows Regular Per…

Main Movie Roles 2007 - Ocean's Thirteen 2007 - Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project 2004 - Ocean's Twelve 2003 - Good Boy! 2001 - Ocean's Eleven 2001 - The Majestic 2000 - The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle 1998 - Slums of Beverly Hills 1993 - Fatal Instinct 1987 - Summer School 1982 - Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1979 - The Jerk 1978 - The End 1977 - Oh, God! 1967 - A Guide for the Married Man 1966 - The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming 1963 - It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 - The Thrill of It All 1961 - Gidget Goes Hawaiian 1959 - Gazebo

BIOGRAPHY:

Carl Reiner (born March 20, 1922)[1] is an American actor, film director, producer, writer, and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards and one Grammy Award during his career.

Early life Reiner was born in the Bronx, New York, the son of Bessie (née Mathias) and Irving Reiner, who was a watchmaker.[2] His parents were Jewish immigrants, his father from Romania and his mother from Austria.[3] When he was sixteen, his older brother Charlie read in the New York Daily News about a free dramatic workshop being put on by the Works Progress Administration and told him about it. He had been working as a machinist fixing sewing machines. He credits Charlie with changing his career plans.[4]

Reiner performed in several Broadway musicals, including Inside U.S.A., and Alive and Kicking, and had the lead role in Call Me Mister. In 1950, he was cast by producer Max Leibman in Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, appearing on air in skits while also working alongside writers such as Mel Brooks and Neil Simon. He also worked on Caesar's Hour with Brooks, Simon, Larry Gelbart, Mel Tolkin, Mike Stewart, Aaron Ruben, Sheldon Keller and Gary Belkin.

On December 24, 1943, Reiner married singer Estelle Lebost. The two were married 64 years until her death in 2008. At the time of the marriage, he was 21 and she was 29. Estelle is probably best remembered for her line "I'll have what she's having" in the deli scene of their son Rob's 1989 film When Harry Met Sally.[1] She died on October 25, 2008, at age 94.[5] Reiner is the father of actor-turned-director Rob Reiner (b. 1947), poet, playwright and author Sylvia Anne (Annie) Reiner (b. 1957), and painter,[6] actor, and director Lucas Reiner (b. 1960).[1][7]
Reiner, who is Jewish, has described himself as a Jewish atheist.[3] He says, "I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us."


TRIVIA:

• Portrayed Rob Petrie in his 1959 television pilot "Head of the Family" which eventually became the basis for _"The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961)_ (qv).
• Father-in-law of 'Michele Singer' (qv) and 'Maud Winchester' (qv).
• Father of 'Rob Reiner' (qv), 'Sylivia Ann Reiner' (qv) and 'Lucas Reiner' (qv).
• Served in the Army in 1942 and was trained as a radio operator. He later was assigned to 'Maurice Evans (I)' (qv)' Special Entertainment Unit and toured the South Pacific as a comedian in GI reviews.
• Made a best-selling album with 'Mel Brooks' (qv) called "2000 Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks" which earned a Grammy nomination and ignited Carl's writing career.
• Former father-in-law of 'Penny Marshall (I)' (qv).
• He was awarded The Annual Kennedy Centre 'Mark Twain' (qv) Prize for Comedy.
• Inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame and, in 2000, was awarded the 'Mark Twain' (qv) Prize for Comedy by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.