Carl Reiner - biography
Biography
Carl Reiner is best-known for the following films:
Carl Reiner Quotes
“I’m a charming coward; I fight with words.”“I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don’t even know if you’re failing in drama, but you do know when you’re failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don’t hear anybody laughing, you know that you’ve failed.”
“The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.”
“A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don’t think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don’t. And by the way - when you get it, we don’t know it.”
“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”
“Comedians are really writers who don’t have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.”
“Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.”
“If you can get a laugh out of a name, you’re ahead of the game.”
“It’s like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.”
Filmography
The Actor
Carl Reiner has appeared in the following films:Happy Anniversary (1959)
The Gazebo (1959)
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
The Thrill of It All (1963)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965)
The Art of Love (1965)
A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
The Comic (1969)
The End (1978)
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
The Majestic (2001)
Ocean’s Twelve (2004)
Ocean’s Thirteen (2007)
The Film Director
Carl Reiner directed the following films:Enter Laughing (1967)
The Comic (1969)
Where’s Poppa? (1970)
Oh, God! (1977)
The Jerk (1979)
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
The Man with Two Brains (1983)
All of Me (1984)
Summer Rental (1985)
Bert Rigby, You’re a Fool (1989)
Sibling Rivalry (1990)
That Old Feeling (1997)
The Writer
Carl Reiner contributed to the screenplay for the following films:The Thrill of It All (1963)
The Art of Love (1965)
Enter Laughing (1967)
The Comic (1969)
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
The Man with Two Brains (1983)
Bert Rigby, You’re a Fool (1989)
That Old Feeling (1997)



