Carl Reiner

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Carl Reiner (born March 20, 1922 in New York City , † June 29, 2020 in Beverly Hills ) was an American actor , comedian , film director , producer , screenwriter and book writer . His career lasted more than 70 years and he is considered an American comedy legend.

Life

Carl Reiner was born in 1922 in the Bronx, New York, as the son of watchmaker Irving Reiner and his wife Bessie Mathias. His father was a Jewish immigrant from Chernivtsi (then Austria-Hungary ), his mother was born in Austria . Reiner graduated from Georgetown University . In 1943 he married Estelle Lebost (1914–2008); the marriage had three children: the film director and actor Rob Reiner , the writer Annie Reiner and the artist Lucas Reiner .

During the Second World War he served initially as a radio operator for a short time , then as an interpreter and finally, after his acting talent was recognized, as a troop supervisor in the Pacific under Maurice Evans . After the war, he worked on Broadway and appeared in various musicals , such as Inside USA and Alive and Kicking , and played the lead role in Call Me Mister . When working on the television series Your Show of Shows of Sid Caesar , he met Mel Brooks know. He made several records with him and then began working on a show he called Head of the Family . The show was initially not accepted, but in 1961 with Dick Van Dyke in the lead role as The Dick Van Dyke Show , in which Reiner occasionally played the supporting role of Alan Brady and also took on his first directorial work, resumed.

Reiner later switched to cinema films and made appearances in comedies such as A total, total crazy world and The Russians are coming! The Russians are Coming! a name. He made his directorial debut in 1967 with the film adaptation of Enter Laughing , which is based on his own semi-autobiographical novel and had previously been dramatized as a play by Joseph Stein . With The Jerk ( The Jerk , 1979) as well as Dead Men Do not Wear Plaid ( Dead Men Do not Wear Plaid , 1982) with Steve Martin , he landed great comedy successes on the big screen. He worked regularly as a film director until the late 1990s.

Reiner played the con artist Saul Bloom in the three crook comedies Ocean's Eleven (2001), Ocean's 12 (2004) and Ocean's 13 (2007) directed by Steven Soderbergh . He also made guest appearances on the television series Ally McBeal , Crossing Jordan - Pathologist with Profile , Boston Legal , Dr. House and in four episodes of Two and a Half Men between 2009 and 2014 as Marty Pepper. Despite his old age, Reiner always remained active as an actor; that's how he spoke in the animated film A Toy Story, which was released in 2019 : Everything hears on no command, the character named after him, Carl Reineroceros.

In 2019, the now 97-year-old Reiner was publicly involved in a campaign by US veterans calling for an impeachment trial against President Donald J. Trump . He was one of the oldest celebrities on Twitter and still tweeted a day before he died. Reiner died in Beverly Hills in June 2020 at the age of 98.

Filmography

Carl Reiner (1989)

as an actor

as a voice actor

as a director

as a screenwriter

Works

  • Enter Laughing (1958)
  • 2000 Years With: Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks (with Mel Brooks , 1960)
  • All Kinds of Love (1993)
  • Continue Laughing (1995)
  • How Paul Robeson Saved My Life (and Other Mostly Happy Stories) (1999)
  • The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000: The Book (1999)
  • My Anecdotal Life: A Memoir (2003)
  • NNNNN: A Novel (2006)
  • Tell Me Another Scary Story ... But Not Too Scary! (with James Bennett , 2009)
  • Just Desserts: A Novellelah (2009)
  • Tell Me a Silly Story (with James Bennett, 2010)
  • I Remember Me (2012)
  • I just remembered! (2014)

Awards

Reiner received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6413 Hollywood Blvd.
  • 1957: Emmy for Caesar's Hour
  • 1958: Emmy for Caesar's Hour
  • 1966: Emmy for The Dick Van Dyke Show
  • 1991 Creative Achievement Award of the American Comedy Awards
  • 1995: Emmy as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for the television series Mad About You
  • 1998: Grammy for Best Spoken Comedy Album for The 2000 Year Old Man In The Year 2000 with Mel Brooks
  • 2000: Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
  • 2007: Honorary Life Member Award from Directors Guild of America

Web links

Commons : Carl Reiner  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Todd Leopold and Lisa Respers: Carl Reiner, longtime comedy legend, dies at 98. Retrieved July 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Carmel Dagan, Carmel Dagan: Carl Reiner, Comedy Legend and 'Dick Van Dyke Show' Creator, Dies at 98. In: Variety. June 30, 2020, accessed June 30, 2020 .
  3. ^ Carl Reiner: My Anecdotal Life: A Memoir . St. Martin's Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4668-6660-7 ( google.at [accessed February 14, 2017]).
  4. ↑ a b Estelle Reiner, 94, Comedy Matriarch, Is Dead at nytimes.com, accessed August 29, 2010
  5. ^ William Earl, William Earl: Carl Reiner's Twitter Musings Remained Essential and Hilarious Until the End. In: Variety. June 30, 2020, accessed on August 4, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Grammy Winners (English)
personal data
SURNAME Reiner, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor, director, and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 2020
Place of death Beverly Hills , United States