Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner was a comedian, writer, actor and director whose career spanned seven decades, from Your Show of Shows through creating The Dick Van Dyke Show and directing films including The Jerk. He won nine Emmy Awards and, with Mel Brooks, created the 2000 Year Old Man.

In his nineties he wrote a series of books about staying creative and engaged in old age, and appeared in the HBO documentary If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast, about people thriving past ninety. He died on June 29, 2020, at 98.