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  Carl Reiner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carl Reiner (born March 20, 1922) is a Jewish-American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian.
Born in the Bronx, New York, Reiner was educated at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and served in the United States Army during World War II.
Reiner played a large role in the early career of Steve Martin, by directing and co-writing four films for the comedian; The Jerk in 1979, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid in 1982, The Man with Two Brains in 1983, and All of Me in 1984.
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 Reiner, Carl
Carl Reiner was one of the first "auteur producers," with his first thirteen episodes becoming the bible upon which consequent episodes were based.
Reiner is also significant for his role as straight man in "The 2,000 Year Old Man" recordings, which he began with Mel Brooks in 1960.
Reiner's performance drew on the entire body of his work, from his days with Sid Caeser through his work as writer, director, and producer, and the portrait he presented in this new context echoed with references to the television history he has lived and to which he has so fully contributed.
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 Children's Literature: Meet Authors & Illustrators   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
CARL REINER, author-actor-writer-director and one of television's most creative minds, has influenced nearly every major comedic talent of the past 50 years.
Reiner also played a starring role in the hit comedy The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966), and had feature or cameo roles in It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), The Gazebo (1959), Generation (1969), The End (1978), Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), and The Slums of Beverly Hills (1998).
Reiner and his wife, the former Estelle Lebost, were married December 24, 1943.
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 Carl Reiner @ Filmbug
Carl Reiner, depending on who you talk to, is best known as a co-star on the legendary television program Your Show of Shows..
Reiner and Mel Brooks released a CD and book with new material in 1997, entitled The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000.
Reiner and his wife of 56 years, Estelle, are the parents of two other children: Annie and Lucas.
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 National Press Club -- Carl Reiner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The television years produced a raft of Emmy awards, nearly all of which were broken or damaged when Reiner's California home was hit by the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
Reiner grew up in the Bronx in a tight-knit German Jewish family.
Over the years Reiner has spent a great deal of time in charitable work, most notably for Big Brothers of America and as an advocate for learning-disabled students.
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 The Dick Van Dyke Show: Carl Reiner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born in 1922, Carl Reiner has enjoyed a career as an actor, writer, director, comedian, novelist, screenwriter and recording artist.
Reiner didn't lose his head but rolled with the punches by completely revamping the show, casting Dick Van Dyke in the title role.
Reiner resigned when CBS refused to air an episode portraying 9-year-old daughter Annie walking in on her parents Dick and Jenny while they are apparently making love.
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"NNNNN: A Novel" by Carl Reiner; Simon Schuster If Carl Reiner were known only for creating, writing and producing "The Dick Van Dyke Show," he still would have secured his place in the American pantheon...
Acclaimed director Rob Reiner struggled with his film-maker father's success during his childhood, because he felt unloved.
Carl Reiner, creator of "The Dick Van Dyke Show," is an elder statesman of American comedy, yet he has never restricted himself to one line of work.
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 Carl Reiner - MovieActors.com
Carl Reiner was born on March 20, 1922 in The Bronx, New York.
Reiner was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame, and in 2000 was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for Comedy.
Carl Reiner made a best-selling album with Mel Brooks called 2000 Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks which earned a Grammy nomination and ignited Carl's writing career.
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 Carl Reiner
During the scripting sessions for Show of Shows, Reiner became friends with a bombastic staff writer named Mel Brooks, with whom he improvised a number of wild stream-of-consciousness comedy bits which would eventually crystallize as the classic "2000 Year Old Man" routines.
The network executives liked the concept, but vetoed Reiner as the star; swallowing his pride, he retooled the property with another leading man, and that's how the Emmy-winning Dick Van Dyke Show was born.
Reiner's later directing assignments included The Comic (1967), a bittersweet farce based on the lives of Stan Laurel, Harry Langdon, and Buster Keaton; the fl comedy cult favorite Where's Poppa?
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 Barnes & Noble.com - Biography - Carl Reiner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Carl Reiner knew he wanted to be an actor -- preferably a Shakespearean actor -- from the time he was wearing knee pants.
During the series' five-year run, Reiner made innumerable cameo appearances on the program, most memorably as Rob Petrie's mercurial TV-comedian boss Alan Brady.
Carl Reiner is the father of directors Rob Reiner and Lucas Reiner; his wife Estelle has enjoyed a latter-day career as a night club singer and as a cameo performer in her son Rob's films (she's the lady who says, "I'll have what she's having!" in When Harry Met Sally).
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 Amazon.com: How Paul Robeson Saved My Life: And Other Mostly Happy Stories: Books: Carl Reiner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Reiner, who has worked as a comic actor (on TV's The Dick Van Dyke Show and elsewhere), is a wry and evocative reader.
Reiner creates very real characters we can identify with, and his versatile voice brings them to life with the true spirit of playfulness only a master possesses.
Carl Reiner is clearly a comic genius -- as a performer with Mel Brooks, as the director of numerous film comedies including "The Jerk" and in more recent years as an author.
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 Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks - The 2000 Year Old Man In The Year 2000: The Album - at Rhino   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Recording the album in front of a live audience (as they did the original albums) in the spring of 1997, Carl and Mel rock the house with hilarity in their indomitable improvisational style that continues to influence comics today.
Diseases And The Plagues - Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks
Yarmulkes Galore And The Inquisition - Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks
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 Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks - 2000 Years With Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks - at Rhino   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Astronaught - Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks
In A Coffee House: The Depressed One; The Actor; The Painter; The Folksinger - Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks
The Psychiatrist - Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks
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 Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner recently wrote a booked titled ``All Kinds of Love''.
Comedian Carl Reiner Honored at Kennedy Center, CBS
Carl Reiner Gets to `Bloom': A Grumpy, Rolaids-popping Role was too Hilarious to Pass Up
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 Alibris: Carl Reiner
In a millennial update of the comedy classic, the legendary team of Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner revive the 2000-Year-Old Man, who is raring to give his take on the issues of our time.
Emmy Award-winning comedy legend Carl Reiner invites readers to huddle close as he tells a young boy's tale of the mysterious house next door.
Beloved actor and comedian Carl Reiner muses on his life, illuminating not only his show business experiences but also his childhood in the Bronx and his surprisingly stable family.
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 NPR : Carl Reiner: Comedy as a Life's Work
Talk of the Nation, August 17, 2004 · Carl Reiner has been at the heart of American comedy for more than 50 years.
From his days on Sid Caesar's Show of Shows to his role in the upcoming movie Ocean's Twelve, Reiner has written and performed a number of unforgettable characters.
Carl Reiner Tells 'The Motley Fool' of Dumb Investments
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 News Search: carl reiner
from his father, actor and comedian Carl Reiner.
Fame arrived in 1971 when he was cast as Archie Bunker's liberal son-in-law Mike...
Abdul Jabar to Judy Garland to Carl Reiner.
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 Carl Reiner Bio - Carl Reiner Biography - Carl Reiner Stories
Carl Reiner was born on March 20th, 1922, in The Bronx, New York.
His interest in entertainment obviously came at an early age, for he had joined the WPA Dramatic Workshop while still in his later teens.
Tell the world what you think of Carl Reiner.
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 * Carl Reiner - (Stars): Definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Aahceleb.com: Where you find the hottest Carl Reiner pictures.
Carl Reiner is the writer and producer who created the hit show The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-66), in which he played Dick Van Dyke's tyrannical boss, Alan Brady...
Rob's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located right next to his father's, actor/director/producer/writer Carl Reiner.
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 WNYC - Survival Kit: Carl Reiner (February 08, 2004)
WNYC - Survival Kit: Carl Reiner (February 08, 2004)
Carl Reiner has written, directed, produced and starred in some of the funniest TV shows and movies of the past half century, including The Dick Van Dyke Show, Your Show of Shows, The Jerk, Where’s Poppa?, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, and Oh, God.
Actually he would bring all of his movies, so he could watch them and see if he could make them better...
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 Carl Reiner Current Month TV Schedule
Neighbor Carl Reiner (guest starring as himself) plays the ultimate practical joke on Bernie.
Starring John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Mary-Louise Parker, Rob Reiner, Jennifer Tilly, Jim Broadbent, Chazz Palminteri, Alan Arkin, Jack Warden, Carl Reiner.
A policeman is marked for death by his adulterous wife in Carl Reiner's sendup of erotic thrillers.
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 Paul Harris Online: Carl Reiner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Carl also reports that he's started shooting "Ocean's Twelve."
Carl Reiner [12/27/99]: In an earlier interview, Carl tells Paul about
Carl Reiner looks back at his amazing career in "My Anecdotal Life"
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 Carl Reiner Pics - Carl Reiner News - Carl Reiner Information
After the war, he worked onstage with a variety of road companies and even on...
Guests: Carl Reiner Rosa Blasi (Strong Medicine) Rufus Wainwright Continue
Reiner Takes Case to 'Boston Legal' (external) 2005-02-09
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 Carl Reiner picture from the movie - Carl Reiner movie stills - Carl Reiner pics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Carl Reiner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Father of Rob Reiner and Lucas Reiner (show more)
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 DigiGuide : Carl Reiner
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 Carl Reiner - HarperChildrens
Carl Reiner created and costarred as Alan Brady in the classic, multiple EmmyAward-winning The Dick Van Dyke Show and later began directing major feature film comedies, including The Jerk, Oh, God?, AII of Me, Where's Poppa, and Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.
He recently was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame and, with Mel Brooks, won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album of the Year for The 2000 Year OId Man in the Year 2000.
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 IMDb Name Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 birth name "Freiherr Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber"
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