Carl Reiner

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Depending on who you talk to, Carl Reiner is best known as a co-st on the legendy television program "Your Show of Shows"...or as the creator and co-st of "The Dick Van Dyke Show"...or as The Interviewer of "The 2,000 Ye Old Man"...or as director of feature films, including "The Jerk," "All of Me" and "Oh, God!" ... or as father of actor-writer-director-producer Rob Reiner -- and, husband of jazz vocalist Estelle Reiner...or as the recipient of 12 Emmy Awards ...or...

Born in the Bronx, Reiner is the son of a watchmaker. At Evander Childs High School, his interest was baseball, but at age 16 he took a job as a machinist helper in the millinery trade. He simultaneously enrolled in drama school for eight months and landed a pt as a second tenor in an updated version of "The Merry Widow."

Reiner subsequently-served in World War II, first training as a radio operator in the Air Force, followed by an assignment to Georgetown University to study French in order to become an interpreter, then as a teletype operator in the signal corps and later as a comedian and actor with Maurice Evans' Special Services Entertainment Unit. He toured the Pacific for eighteen months in G.I. revues. Upon his honorable dischge in 1946, he won the leading role in the national company of "Call Me Mister" and after three more yes in vious Broadway musicals, joined Sid Caes and Imogene Coca on "Your Show of Shows."

In 1958, his first novel, "Enter Laughing," was published. An autobiographical work, the book chronicled Reiner's frustrations as a young machinist helper in the millinery trade and his eventual entry into show business. The book subsequently became the basis for a Broadway play (adapted by Joe Stein) and feature film (directed and co-produced by Reiner) of the same name.

In 1961, Reiner conceived "The Dick Van Dyke Show," which would become one of the most famous and best-loved sitcoms in television history. Of course, audiences have never forgotten his co-string role on the show as the toupee-weing producer Alan Brady.

That same ye, he wrote his first feature film, "The Thrill of It All," for Doris Day and James Gner. Reiner's other feature film credits as a director include: "The Comic," co-written by Reiner and Aon Ruben; "Where's Poppa?," which stred George Segal and Ruth Gordon; "Oh, God!" string George Burns; four films with actor Steve Mtin: "The Jerk," "Dead Men Don't We Plaid," "The Man With Two Brains" and "All of Me"; "Summer Rental" with John Candy; "The One and Only" with Henry Winkler; "Summer School" with Mk Hmon; "Bert Rigby, You're A Fool," which Reiner also wrote; "Sibling Rivalry," with Kirstie Alley, "Fatal Instinct," with mand Assante and Kate Nelligan, and "That Old Feeling," with Bette Midler and Dennis Fina, which opened in Spring, 1997.

Reiner and Mel Brooks released a CD and book with new material in October of 1997, entitled, "The 2000 Ye Old Man In The Ye 2000. (HperCollins Publisher and Rhino Records Distributor) His motion picture acting credits include a string role in the "The Russians e Coming, The Russians e Coming, The Russians e Coming" and featured or cameo roles in "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," "The Gazebo," "Generation," "Dead Men Don"t We Plaid, "The End," and "The Slums Of Beverly Hills."

His second novel, "All Kinds of Love," was published in April 1993. His third novel, "Continue Laughing," was published in June, 1995. Reiner has a book of short stories which was published in September of 1999. The title is "How Paul Robeson Saved My-Life and other Mostly Happy Stories."

Reiner and his wife of 56 yes, Estelle, e also pents of two other children: Annie Reiner, a poetpainter playwright-psychoanalyst; and Lucas Reiner, a painter-screenwriter-director. He calls all three of his children "terribly civilized, wonderful human beings."