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Reiner, Carl sion history he has lived and to which he has so fully Television Specials contributed. He remains active as a writer and as an ac- 1967 The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl tor in both film and television-for example, writing Reiner Howard Morris Special novels and short stories; reviving the 2,000 -year -old 1968 The Fabulous Funnies (host) man character with Mel Brooks in 1997; lending his 1969 The Wonderful World of Pizzazz (cohost) voice to episodes of the animated TV series King of the 1970 Happy Birthday Charlie Brown (host) Hill (FOX, 1997) and Disney's Hercules (1998); 1984 Those Wonderful TV Game Shows (host) guest -starring on two episodes of the CBS legal drama 1984 The Great Stand -Ups: 60 Years of Family Law (1999 and 2000); and playing a featured Laughter (narrator) role in the film Ocean's Eleven (2001). For his career 1987 Carol, Carl, Whoopi, and Robin achievements, he has been honored by the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and inducted into the Films (selected) Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Happy Anniversary, 1959; The 1960; Fame. Gazebo, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, 1961; It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad MICHAEL B. KASSEL World, 1963; The Russians Are Coining!, 1966; En- See also Caesar, Sid; Dick Van Dyke Show, The ter Laughing (director), 1967; Where's Poppa?, 1970; Heaven Help Us (coproducer), 1976; Oh, Carl Reiner. Born in the Bronx. New York, March 20, God! (director), 1977; The End, 1978; The One and 1922. Educated at the School of Foreign Service, Only (director), 1978; The Jerk (director), 1979; Georgetown University, 1943. Married: Estelle Le - Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, 1982; The Man with host, 1943; children: Robert. Sylvia, and Lucas. Two Brains (codirector), 1983; All of Me (director), Served in the U.S. Army, attached to Major Maurice 1984; Summer Rental (director), 1985; Sumner Evans's Special Services Unit, 1942-46. Worked in School (director), 1987; Bert Rigby, You're a Fool Broadway shows, 1946-50; character actor and em- (director), 1989; The Spirit of '76, 1990; Basic In- cee, television show Your Show of Shows, 1950-54; stinct, 1993; The Slums of Beverly Hills, 1998; The appeared in Caesar's Hour, 1954-57; appeared in Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, 2000; Ocean's short-lived Sid Caesar Invites You, 1958; emcee, Keep Eleven, 2001; The Majestic (voice), 2001; Good Talking, 1958-59; writer, actor, and producer, various Boy!, 2003; Ocean's Twelve, 2004. TV series, from 1960; director and star, numerous mo- tion pictures, since 1959. Recipient: 12 Emmy Stage Awards, since 1965; Kennedy Center Mark Twain Call Me Mister 1947-48; Inside U.S.A., 1948-49; Prize for American Humor, 2000. Inducted in Acad- Alive and Kicking, 1950; Enter Laughing, 1963: emy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame, Something Different (writer and director), 1968; So 1999. Long 147111 Street (writer), 1976; The Roast (direc- tor), 1980. Television Series 1950-54 Your Show of Shows Publications 1954-57 Caesar's Hour 1956 63 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show Enter Laughing (novel), 1958 1958-59 Keep Talking The 2,000 Year Old Man (with Mel Brooks), 1981 1961-66 The Dick Van Dyke Show (producer and All Kinds of Love (novel), 1993 writer) Continue Laughing (novel), 1995 1971-74 The New Dick Van Dyke Show (producer The 2,000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 (with Mel and writer) Brooks), 1997 1976 Good Heavens (actor and producer) How Paul Robeson Saved Mr Life, and Other Mostly 2003 The Alan Brady Show Happy Stories, 1999 1914 .