Carl Reiner

At 98 years old, Carl Reiner has this physical status:

Carl Reiner (born March 20,1922) is an American comedian, actor, producer, screenwriter, and publisher whose work spans seven decades. He co-wrote and appeared on Caesar's Hour and Your Show of Shows, starring Sid Caesar in the early years of television comedy from 1950 to 1957.

Reiner, the creator, producer, writer, and actor on The Dick Van Dyke Show in the 1960s, was best known as the creator, producer, poet, and actor.

He also excelled as a film producer and writer, and in the 1970s and 1980s co-wrote and directed some of Steve Martin's most popular films, including 1979's The Jerk. Reiner co-starred in "2000 Year Old Man" and appeared in films including "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966) and Ocean's film series (2001-2007).

During his career, Reiner has received nine Emmy Awards and one Grammy Award.

He is the father of actor and writer Rob Reiner, author Annie Reiner, and Tracy Reiner's grandfather.

Early life

Reiner was born in the Bronx, New York, on March 20, 1922, to Irving and Bessie Reiner (née Mathias). He was Jewish. His father was a watchmaker from Austria, and his mother was from Romania. Charles, his older brother who served in the 9th Division of World War II, was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Charles heard of a free drama workshop run by the Works Progress Administration when Reiner was 16, sewing sewing machines. Carl later praised Charles for his decision to change careers. Harry Mathias was the first entertainer in his family.

Reiner was drafted into the United States Army Air Forces on October 27, 1942, and served during World War II, eventually earning the rank of corporal by the end of the war. He began training to be a radio operator. After three months in the hospital recovering from pneumonia, he was sent to Georgetown University for ten months of training as a French interpreter. He had his first act as a director, putting on a Molière play entirely in French. After finishing language school in 1944, he was sent to Hawaii to work as a teleprinter operator. He attended a Hamlet performance by the Special Services entertainment group the night before he was scheduled to ship out for an unknown mission. He was transferred to Special Services following an audition by actor Major Maurice Evans and Captain Allen Ludden. Reiner performed around the Pacific theater for two years, entertaining troops in Hawaii, Guam, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima until he was honorably discharged in 1946.

Personal life

Reiner married singer Estelle Lebost on December 24, 1943. They were married for almost 60 years before her death in October 2008. In the deli scene of their son Rob's 1989 film When Harry Met Sally, Estelle sang the famous line "I'll have what she's having." They were Rob Reiner's parents (b.) Annie Reiner, a playwright, and writer (b. 1947); poet, playwright, and author. 1949; painter, comedian, and director Lucas Reiner (b. ); and painter, actor, and producer Lucas Reiner (b. (Japan) 1960, a journalist named Dorothy sparked a discussion. Reiner referred to himself as an atheist. "I have a very different opinion of who God is," he said. A man invented God because he needed him. "God is with us." As the Holocaust progressed, he took an atheistic view. Reiner, a Democrat, was a Democrat. His family lived in Beverly Hills, California.

Reiner, a former president of Argentina, blasted Donald Trump's administration on October 31, 2018 and said he did not live until November 3, 2020, which would see Trump voted out of office.

He sponsored the Carl Reiner Charity Celebrity Tennis Tournament in La Costa, California, directed by international tennis player Mike Franks, from 1974 to 2001, of which 100 were professionals.

Reiner died of natural causes at his Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 98 on June 29, 2020. Reiner had been upbeat all day and had spent the evening with Mel Brooks; after 10:00 p.m., he became unsteady and collapsed while walking with the help of his housekeeper, according to his nephew George Shapiro. He recovered consciousness in a few minutes and died shortly after.

Following news of his death, comedians and other prominent figures in the entertainment industry paid their respects and remembrance to Brooks, Woody Allen, Alan Alda, Steve Martin, Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Dick Van Dyke, Bette Midler, Bernadette Peters, and Sarah Silverman. On Twitter, Cheryl Hines and Orlando Jones, two of Reiner's co-stars in Father of the Pride, expressed their condolences, Hines saying that he was not only an amazing comedic gift but also an exceptional human being." Jones recalled his time with Reiner during their Father of the Pride project and expressed his gratitude for his kindness and lessons.

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Career

Reiner appeared in several Broadway musicals (including Inside United States and Kicking) and was in charge of Call Me Mister. On Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows in 1950, he was cast as a nutty actor while still contributing to writers such as Mel Brooks and Neil Simon. He did not receive praise for his sketch work, but he did receive Emmy Awards in 1955 and 1956 as a supporting actor. Brooks, Simon, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart, Mel Tolkin, Aaron Ruben, Sheldon Keller, and Gary Belkin wrote for Caesar's Hour with Brooks, Simon, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart, Melissa Tolkin, Michael Tolkin, Aaron Ruben, Sheldon Keller, and Gary Belkin. During the 1959–60 television season, he played head writer and semi-regular on The Dinah Shore Chevy Show.

On The Steve Allen Show, Reiner appeared alongside Brooks as a comedy pair. Reiner was the straight man in The 2000 Year Old Man's appearances on television and stage. The routine evolved into a series of five comedy albums and a 1975 animated television special, with the last album in the collection receiving a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Comedy Album. Brooks "experienced for the first time" as a comedic actor, according to Reiner. William Holtzman, Brooks' biographer, called their 12-minute performance "an innovative jazz improvisation," while Gerald Nachman referred to Reiner's role in guiding the performance:

He created the first 13 episodes of a television series named Head of the Family, based on his own personal and professional life in 1958. However, Reiner was not wanted in the lead role for unknown reasons by the network. The Dick Van Dyke Show, which was recast and renamed in 1961, became a hit series, starring lead actors Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore. Reiner has appeared in several of the episodes as show host Alan Brady on occasion. The series ran from 1961 to 1966, then syndication followed for a long time. Reiner appeared in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, a 1966 film.

(1970), Oh, God!

He wrote: "A Memoir of My Anecdotal Life" (2003), he wrote: "It's Anecdotal Life: A Memoir" (1996).

Reiner starred and appeared in Oh, God! in 1977. George Burns, John Denver, and Teri Garr appear on the film. The film was a financial success, making it the sixth highest-grossing film of 1977. "Carl Reiner's Oh, God!" Roger Ebert wrote a glowing review of the film, "Cather's Oh, God! The statue of a film is a sad, civilized, quietly amusing premise about what might happen if God wanted to appear in the flesh but then yet again to forgetful Man."

His sequel to The One and Only (1978) was not as popular, receiving a mixed reception from film critics. Henry Winkler, Kim Darby, and Gene Saks appeared in the film.

Reiner appeared on numerous television shows, including Night Gallery in the segment "Professor Peabody's Last Lecture" in 1971, and in the variety sketch show The Carol Burnett Show (1974).

Reiner also returned to television by presenting The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1971–1974), which starred Dick Van Dyke for three seasons and starred Dick Van Dyke.

Reiner was instrumental in Steve Martin's early career, producing and co-writing Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1981), and All of Me (1984). Reiner appeared in both The Jerk, playing himself, and Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. Bert Rigby was the narrator of the 1989 film You're a Fool.

Reiner was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center in 2000, where he was lauded by fellow colleagues and comedians Mel Brooks, Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Steve Martin, Rob Reiner, Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano, and Joy Behar were among his guests and comedians. Saul Bloom starred in Ocean's Eleven a year later (Steven Soderbergh's remake of 1960's Ocean's 111) and reprised his role in Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). Reiner portrayed Sarmoti in Father of the Pride from 2004 to 2005. In a teleconference, he said he knew how to act; in a teleconference, he said, "I spent my youth, from the time I was 6 to 18, living next to the Bronx Zoo." I knew the lions very well. I kept up with their pace. They talked to me and I talked back to them. They had the worst breath of any animal in the world, according to me. "I heard the lions roar in person." "The writing on this show is really good," he said. It's a joy to come to work because you know you're going to say something amusing." Reiner wrote "curmudgeons always have the right lines" in Sarmoti's portrayal.

Reiner appeared in hundreds of television specials from 1967 to 2000. He appeared in many television series from the 1950s to his death in 2020. In May 2009, he appeared in "Both Sides Now," the season five finale of House. In Merry Madagascar (2009), he also appeared in the 2010 Penguins of Madagascar episode "The All Nighter Before Christmas." Marty Pepper, a television producer, appeared in season 7 (December 2009) of Two and a Half Men. In 2010, he appeared on three of the first-season episodes of Hot in Cleveland as Elka Ostrovsky's (Betty White) date and reprised his role in February 2011. Murray appeared on The Cleveland Show as Murray and wrote the story "Your Show of Shows," which was named after the program that began his career. In seasons 8 (October 2013) and 11, 2014), Reiner reprised his role on Two and a Half Men.

Reiner appeared in numerous films and animated films. He also read for books on tape, including Aesop's Fables and Jack and the Beanstalk, as well as Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Prince and the Pauper, and Letters from the Earth (New Millenium, 2001).

He appeared as a guest on Jerry Seinfeld's series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee in 2012. They ate at a diner discussing his comedy career, and Reiner invited Seinfeld to join Mel Brooks and himself for dinner. Brooks used to eat, watch Jeopardy (he taped it), and watch movies every night, Reiner said. It had to be one where "somebody" says, 'Secure the perimeter!' He continued to say that the one rule for films was that it had to be one in which "somebody says, 'Secure the perimeter!' "Get some rest," says the author. Brooks "falls asleep with his mouth open" every time, according to Reiner.

Reiner's last film appearance was in Home Movie: The Princess Bride, a film in which Jason Reitman's hoped to involve his celebrity friends to help raise funds for charity during the COVID-19 pandemic, with actors filming their own takes on scenes from The Princess Bride at their own homes. In the final scene as the Grandfather and Grandson, which Rob said was shot three days before Reiner's death, Reiner appeared alongside Rob Reiner (who produced the original film). "As you please," the film's script says, "I love you." Reitman asked the Reiner family if they should swap out the scene, but the family gave him permission to use the scene.

Reiner was the author of more than two dozen books. Enter Laughing (1958), his first autobiographical novel, resulted in a 1995 sequel Continue Laughing. In 2003, he wrote a memoir entitled My Anecdotal Life: A Memoir. He also wrote a humorous collection of memoirs under the headings of I Remember Me (2012), I Just Remembered (2014), and What I Forgot to Remember (2015), as well as books on film and art. He started writing children's books based on the tales he shared with a particular grandson who would ask, "Please tell me a scary tale, Grandpa, but not too scary."

Reiner took to Twitter in July 2012 to keep up with his grandson Jake. He felt obliged to tweet at least once a day, and so far, 6,520 tweets and 367,000 followers have been active. His favourite subjects were movies and Donald Trump, but his last tweet was a reminiscence of Nol Coward's appearance in Las Vegas. Reiner, the oldest celebrity to use Twitter at the age of 98, was the first celebrity to take to Twitter at 98.

His last interview was a webisode of Dispatches From Quarantine, which was released on YouTube by Jewish arts group Reboot and Temple Beth Am. "We met, fell in love, and fell in love," he said in this, and I was 20 years old at the time, and she was 28, but people pointed out that this is not a match. It only took 60 years, and if she didn't pass on, we'd still be working on it."

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