“falls asleep with his mouth open”
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Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner was an American actor, author, comedian, director, and screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades. His awards and honors include 12 Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1999.
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Born 20 March 1922 · Died 29 June 2020 · Q287793
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2026· 3 entries
Clarin.com: La delicada situación del hijo del director Rob Reiner: Nick Reiner perdió el acceso al fideicomiso familiar mientras enfrenta cargos por el asesinato de sus padres
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2020· 2 entries
Reiner died at his home in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 98
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Died 2020-06-29.
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2018· 1 entry
Reiner, then 96, who was a liberal Democrat, publicly denounced Donald Trump's administration and stated his goal to live past November 3, 2020, and see Trump voted out of office
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2017· 1 entry
Carl and his son Rob Reiner became the first father-son duo to have their footprints and handprints added to a concrete slab at Grauman's Chinese Theater
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2013· 1 entry
Said he developed an atheistic viewpoint as the Holocaust progressed, stating it would not have continued if God existed
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2012· 1 entry
Appeared as a guest on Jerry Seinfeld's series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
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2010· 1 entry
Guest-starred in three of the first-season episodes of Hot in Cleveland as Elka Ostrovsky's (Betty White) date and reprised his role in February 2011
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2009· 1 entry
Released album “The 2000 Year Old Man - The Complete History”.
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2000· 4 entries
Awarded Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (2000).
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Reiner was honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center
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Received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center
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“The 2000 Year Old Man – Created and Performed by Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner”
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1999· 1 entry
Was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000”.
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Winning a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Comedy Album
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for Mad About You (1995).
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1977· 1 entry
Reiner directed and appeared in Oh, God
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1973· 2 entries
It was reported that Brooks and Reiner initially performed the routine at Norman Lear's Fire Island, New York home in the 1950s, with some of these earlier recordings also serving as the basis for one side of the 2000 an
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Released album “2000 and Thirteen”.
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1971· 1 entry
And as various characters in the variety sketch show The Carol Burnett Show (1974)
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1967· 2 entries
“curmudgeons always get the good lines”
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Released album “Enter Laughing”.
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1966· 1 entry
Reiner co-starred in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for The Dick Van Dyke Show (1964).
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for The Dick Van Dyke Show (1963).
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1962· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for The Dick Van Dyke Show (1962).
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Released album “Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival”.
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1961· 2 entries
The series was recast and re-titled The Dick Van Dyke Show and became a popular series, making stars of his lead actors Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore
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Released album “2000 and One Years with Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks”.
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1960· 3 entries
Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 6421 Hollywood Boulevard
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Reiner teamed with Brooks as a comedy duo on The Steve Allen Show
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Released album “2000 Years With…”.
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1958· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Caesar's Hour (1958).
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Wrote the initial 13 episodes of a television series titled Head of the Family, based on his own personal and professional life
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Caesar's Hour (1957).
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1950· 1 entry
Was cast by Max Leibman as a comic actor on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, appearing on air in skits while also contributing ideas to such writers as Mel Brooks and Neil Simon
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1944· 1 entry
Was sent to Hawaii to work as a teleprinter operator
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1943· 1 entry
Reiner married singer Estelle Lebost
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1942· 1 entry
And served during World War II, achieving the rank of corporal by the end of the war
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1922· 2 entries
To Jewish parents Irving and Bessie Reiner (née Mathias)
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Born 1922-03-20.
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