Trivia

Made a best-selling album with Mel Brooks called "2000 Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks" which earned a Grammy Award nomination and ignited Carl's writing career.

Father of Rob Reiner, Sylivia Ann Reiner and Lucas Reiner.

Served in the United States Army in 1942 and was trained as a radio operator. He later was assigned to Maurice Evans' Special Entertainment Unit, which included Werner Klemperer, and toured the South Pacific as a comedian in GI reviews.

He was awarded The Annual Kennedy Centre Mark Twain Prize for Comedy.

He never retired from acting and was working right up until his death at the age of ninety-eight.

Inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame (1999) and was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for Comedy by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (2000).

Four of his movies were nominated for AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs: Oh, God! (1977), The Jerk (1979), The Man with Two Brains (1983) and All of Me (1984). "The Jerk" made the list at #89.

Portrayed Rob Petrie in his 1959 television pilot Head of the Family (1960), which eventually became the basis for The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961).

His mother, Bessie (Mathias), was a Romanian Jewish immigrant, and his father, Irving Reiner, was an Austrian Jewish immigrant.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6241 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.

He and his son, Rob Reiner, became the first father-and-son duo to have their footprints and handprints on a concrete slab at Grauman's Chinese Theater (2017).

The writer-director's favorite film is Romance (1930) with Greta Garbo.

Was friends with Dick Van Dyke, Mel Brooks, Mary Tyler Moore, Kirk Douglas, Betty White, Richard Dawson, Michele Lee and Norman Lear.

On The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009), Reiner disclosed to Conan that he had been a guest on Johnny Carson's talk show no fewer than 47 times. This was Reiner's first appearance on Conan. (December 2009)

Is the 1980 recipient of the prestigious Connor Award given by the brothers of the Phi Alpha Tau fraternity based out of Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also an honorary brother of the fraternity.

Father-in-law of Michele Reiner and Maud Winchester. Ex-father-in-law of Penny Marshall.

He was a lifelong Democrat. He endorsed Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential election. He also endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

Grandfather of Jake Reiner, Nick Reiner and Romy Reiner.

His ashes were buried next to his wife, Estelle Reiner, near their home in an undisclosed location.

On his great friend Mel Brooks's 94th birthday, the two of them got together for a celebration, and this meeting was shared via photographs on social media. Sadly, Carl passed away the very next day.