Actor, Comedian, Producer, Writer, and Director. Carl Reiner has received world-wide acclaim as an award-winning American entertainer being a comedic actor in film and television, as well as being behind the camera as the producer, writer, and director. He was the recipient of nine Emmy Awards; three as an actor, four as a writer, and two as a producer. He also won a Grammy Award for his "2,000 Year Old Man" album, based on his comedy routine with Mel Brooks. In 2000, he was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for Comedy." He played Sid Caesar's second banana on the weekly 90-minute variety show "Your Show of Shows." By the final show in 1954, he appeared in 139 out of the 141 episodes, and had a chance to be one of the show's writers, as was Mel Brooks. After that show ended, he stayed from 1954 to 1957 with Caesar in the "Caesar's Hour," a sketch comedy program. He created the award-winning television series "The Dick Van Dyke Show," which aired from 1961 to 1966 and is in reruns on syndication even into the twenty-first century. In this series, he had planned to be the main character, which became Van Dyke's role, but CBS gave him a supporting role along with the behind-the-scene role of writer and producer. For this achievement, he was the recipient of three Emmys for his writing, and the program was named Outstanding Comedy Series in 1966. In 2004, a movie made for television, "The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited," brought this award-winning show to a new audience. Returning to Broadway, he wrote and directed the production, "Something Different, " which ran from 1967 through 1968. His 1958 semi-autobiography, "Enter Laughing" was adapted to a Broadway play, running from 1963 to 1964, and, in 1967, he made his directing debut with a film adaption. In 1969, he produced "Comic," a tribute to silent-screen comics; in 1970, "Where's Poppa," a Black comedy; and, from 1971 to 1974, "The New Dick Van Dyke Show." He directed many comedic films including "Oh, God!" in 1977, "The One and Only" in 1978, and "The Jerk" in 1979, which launched Steve Martin's career. Starring Martin again was the 1982 black-and-white film-noir parody, "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid," which was successful with critics as well as box-office sales; the sci-fi comedy, "The Man with Two Brains" in 1982; and the last film with Martin, "All of Me," in 1984. Starting at this point, his next four films declined in popularity, with the last film he directed being "That Old Feeling" in 1997. He was inducted in the Television Hall of Fame in 1999. Playing the role of the con man Saul Bloom, he appeared in the film trilogy of "Ocean's Eleven" in 2001, "Ocean's Twelve" in 2004, and "Ocean's Thirteen" in 2007. His television acting credits were many, including being an Emmy recipient for a guest appearance on "Mad About You." Besides television appearances on "Ally McBeal" and "Parks and Recreation," he voiced Sarmoti in the animated comedy "Father of the Pride." Continuing with with animated characters, he voiced the character of 'Carl Reineroceros' in the 2019 film "Toy Story 4." Born the son of Jewish immigrants, his father was a watchmaker. He studied drama as a teenager under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration program, performed in a theatrical touring company, and, with one year of college, was part of an Army entertainment unit during World War II. After the war, he made his Broadway debut in the musical "Inside U.S.A" in 1948 and had parts in a few not-so-successful television productions before "Your Show of Shows" in 1950. A man with multifaceted talents, his long career in the entertainment business spanned from the late 1940s to three days before his death at the of 98, when he was the narrator in the film "Princess Bride." Looking back at his achievements in writing, many sources claimed that he "never had a case of writer's block." Besides his book "Enter Laughing," he wrote novels, children's books, and memoirs including "My Anecdotal Life" in 2003, "I Remember Me" in 2013, and "Too Busy to Die" in 2017.