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. Before that Reiner had made a name for himself on the New York stage and in Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows (1950-54) and Caesar's Hour (1954-57), where he won two Emmy awards for his work as a comic actor. Reiner has had success in feature films also, directing comedies including Enter Laughing (1966-67, based on his autobiographical book and starring Alan Arkin), Oh, God (1977) and four movies with Steve Martin: The Jerk (1979), Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), The Man With Two Brains (1983) and All of Me (1984). Reiner is also known for his long-running comedy routine with Mel Brooks, "The 2,000 Year-Old Man," (winner of a 1998 Grammy), and for his occasional appearances on television and in the movies, including the role of Saul Bloom, the elderly confidence man of Steve Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven movies (co-starring George Clooney and Don Cheadle). In 2004 he lent his voice to the CGI-animated TV series Family of the Pride.
Novels
Enter Laughing (1958)
All Kinds of Love (1993)
Nnnnn (1995)
Continue Laughing (1995)
Just Desserts (2009)
The Secret Treasure Of Tahka Paka (2015)
All Kinds of Love (1993)
Nnnnn (1995)
Continue Laughing (1995)
Just Desserts (2009)
The Secret Treasure Of Tahka Paka (2015)
Collections
Groucho Marx (1994)
How Paul Robeson Saved My Life (1999)
Just So Stories (2009)
Carl Reiner's Novel Beginnings (2009)
How Paul Robeson Saved My Life (1999)
Just So Stories (2009)
Carl Reiner's Novel Beginnings (2009)
Picture Books
The 2000 Year Old Man Goes to School (1981) (with Mel Brooks)
Tell Me a Scary Story (2003)
Tell Me Another Scary Story (2009)
Tell Me A Silly Story (2010)
Tell Me a Scary Story (2003)
Tell Me Another Scary Story (2009)
Tell Me A Silly Story (2010)
Non fiction
The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 (1997) (with Mel Brooks)
My Anecdotal Life (2003)
Adolf Meistermann (2013) (with Peggy Jean Cramer)
I Just Remembered (2014)
My Anecdotal Life (2003)
Adolf Meistermann (2013) (with Peggy Jean Cramer)
I Just Remembered (2014)
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