Carl reiner

Born into a family of Jewish immigrants on March 20, 1922, in New York, Carlton Reiner enrolled in a dramatic art workshop that his brother Charles had told him about, which according to him changed his life. After serving in the army during World War II, he began acting in Broadway musicals beginning in 1948. In the 1950s he made it big on television, first as a writer and comedian for “Your Show of Show” and later on “Caesar’s Hour.” He later teamed up with Mel Brooks to form a comedy duo, which he swept on both television and stage appearances.

His sketch “The 2000 Year Old Man” is especially remembered, where Reiner gave life to a presenter who interviewed a man who had lived two thousand years (Brooks), and who in theory knew absolutely everything. He had his own style, which has been followed as a model by later comedians who consider him his master, such as Jerry Seinfeld and Tina Fey .

Between 1961 and 1966, Carl Reiner succeeded as head of the series The Dick Van Dyke Show. At the end, he wanted to try his luck in the cinema, debuting as a director with  Enter Laughing , a romantic comedy starring Shelley Winters . He achieved enormous success with his films starring Steve Martin , such as A Madman on the Loose , A Dead Customer Does Not Pay or A Genius With Two Brains , and with There is a Dead Man in My Bed , with Kirstie Alley . He retired from performing after That Crazy Feeling , with Bette Midler, from 1997. As an actor, he is best remembered as veteran con man Saul Bloom in Ocean’s Eleven and its two sequels.

Carl Reiner married Estelle Lebost in 1943, to whom he remained united until her death in 2008. They had three children, filmmaker Rob Reiner , author Annie Reiner, and actor-director Lucas Reiner.