 Depending on who you talk to, Carl Reiner is best known as a co-star on the legendary television program "Your Show of Shows"...or as the creator and co-star of "The Dick Van Dyke Show"...or as The Interviewer of "The 2,000 Year Old Man"... or as director of feature films, including "The Jerk," "All of Me" and "Oh, God!" ... or as father of actor-writer-director-producer Rob Reiner -- and, husband of jazz vocalist Estelle Reiner...or as the recipient of 12 Emmy awards ...or... Born in the Bronx, Reiner is the son of a watchmaker. At Evander Childs High School, his interest was baseball, but at age 16 he took a job as a machinist helper in the millinery trade. He simultaneously enrolled in drama school for eight months and landed a part as a second tenor in an updated version of "The Merry Widow."
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