Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner March 20 1922 June 29 2020 was an American actor standup comedian director screenwriter and author During the early years of television comedy from 1950 to 1957 he acted on and contributed sketch material for Your Show of Shows and Caesars Hour starring Sid Caesar writing alongside Mel Brooks Neil Simon and Woody Allen Reiner teamed up with Brooks and together they released several iconic comedy albums beginning with 2000 Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks 1960 Reiner was best known as the creator and producer of and a writer and actor on The Dick Van Dyke Show 19611965 Reiner formed a comedy duo with Brooks in The 2000 Year Old Man and acted in such films as Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming 1966 and the Oceans film series 20012007 He cowrote and directed some of Steve Martins first and most successful films including The Jerk 1979 and also directed such comedies as Wheres Poppa 1970 Oh God 1977 and All of Me 1984 Reiner appeared in dozens of television specials from 1967 to 2000 and was a guest star on television series from the 1950s until his death He also voiced characters in animated films and television series including the TV series Father of the Pride 20042005 in which he voiced Sarmoti and was a reader for books on tape He wrote more than two dozen books mostly in his later years He was the recipient of many awards and honors including 11 Emmy Awards one Grammy Award and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1999 Description above from the Wikipedia article Carl Reiner licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia