Carl Reiner Net Worth

Carl Reiner's Quotes

• I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
• Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be the fool but you're the fool in charge.
• [on Steve Martin] He's one of my favorite people in the world because he's a cool cat. He looks like an accountant, but he is one of the most tangential thinkers. He thinks in a way that nobody else thinks. He has a brilliant mind, putting things together that don't go together, and make you laugh. He's one of the great creative forces we have today.
• [on Sid Caesar] He was a saxophonist but had a sense of memory - where you pick up something and mime it. We wanted to do a funny sketch with it. Sid pretended to open up a jar of olives in his hand. So, without knowing it, he screwed the lid back on and put it down on the floor. That's the greatest sense of memory I've ever seen.
• [on Mel Brooks as The 2000 Year Old Man] I always knew if I threw a question to Mel he could come up with something. I learned a long time ago that if you can corner a genius comedy brain in panic, you're going to get something extraordinary.

Interesting Facts about Carl Reiner

1. Father of Rob Reiner, Sylivia Ann Reiner and Lucas Reiner.
2. Portrayed Rob Petrie in his 1959 television pilot "Head of the Family" which eventually became the basis for The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961).
3. 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.
4. 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).
5. He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6241 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. He was awarded The Annual Kennedy Centre Mark Twain Prize for Comedy.
9. Father-in-law of Michele Singer and Maud Winchester. Ex-father-in-law of Penny Marshall.
10. 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]
11. 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.
12. His mother, Bessie (Mathias), was a Romanian Jewish immigrant, and his father, Irving Reiner, was an Austrian Jewish immigrant.
13. The writer-director's favorite film is Romance (1930) with Greta Garbo.
14. Was friends with Dick Van Dyke, Mel Brooks, Mary Tyler Moore, Kirk Douglas, Betty White, Richard Dawson, Michele Lee and Norman Lear.
15. 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).
16. He was a lifelong Democrat. He endorsed Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential election. He also endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
17. He never retired from acting and was working right up until his death at the age of ninety-eight.
18. Grandfather of Jake Reiner, Nick Reiner and Romy Reiner.