Results: Carl Reiner - American Director, Actor, Writer and Producer for TV & Film

David Kolowitz, a nice young man living with his parents in New York City in 1938, works at a machine repair shop. His parents want David to study to become a pharmacist. But what he really wants is to be an actor like his idol, Ronald Colman. One day, at his friend Marvin's suggestion, David tries out for a part in a play, and gets it, despite his obvious lack of acting experience (not to mention ability). True, it's a rather small part in a low-rent production. Leading the troupe is a washed-up, alcoholic actor who hires David at the urging of his actress-daughter, who finds David "cute." To play his part, David must come up with his own costume - a tuxedo - and pay the house five dollars a week, ostensibly for tuition. But it is David's first acting job, one which calls for him to "enter laughing." And if it doesn't work out - well, there's always pharmacy school. This film was a tremendous success and is a Musical on Broadway. Have you seen ...?

In Carl Reiner's The Comic, Dick Van Dyke gets to show his full range of talents especially in the art of pantomime. In homage to the the great silent screen comics like Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, and Van Dyke's own hero and mentor Stan Laurel. The film is done in flashback where Van Dyke in the coffin does voice over commentary. What he says never quite matches up to what he does. Michele Lee as the first wife and Mickey Rooney as his second banana sidekick stand out in the supporting cast. Also Pert Kelton as a prospective mother-in-law from hell and Scott James as his fashion designer grown son who has one scene and really stands out. With James though the role is stereotypical it also meant visibility for gay people, one of the first and in the year of Stonewall. (1969) Have you seen "The Comic"

Mild-mannered Jerry Landers, is married to Bobbie Landers with two preteens--Adam and Becky. Living in Tarzana, California, Jerry is a hard-working Assistant Manager at a Food World Supermarket Outlet, always trying to do his best at his job. But his generally uneventful life takes a turn when he receives a hand delivered note in the mail to attend an interview with God. Believing it a gag from his friend Artie Coogan, Jerry decides to go to the interview based on circumstances which compel him to do so. Jerry, despite not being a religious person, ultimately does believe that who he meets with, initially only a voice, is indeed God, who eventually does show himself in a physical form to Jerry. God wants Jerry to be his messenger, much like a present-day Moses, to pass along to the human race that "He" has provided all the necessary components of a successful existence, and it is up to the human race to do with those components as they believe fit to reach that success. Winner of Three Awards, have you seen "Oh God"?

Navin is an idiot. He grew up in Mississippi as the adopted son of a black family, but on his 18th birthday he feels he wants to discover the rest of the world and sets out for St. Louis. There everyone exploits his naivete, until a simple invention brings him a fortune. Winner of One Award, have you seen "The Jerk"?

Recently widowed Doctor Michael Hfuhruhurr, the world's greatest neurosurgeon, injures Dolores Benedict in a car accident. He operates on her and saves her life using a technique of his own invention: cranial screw-top brain entry. As Benedict recovers, Hfuhruhurr falls in love with her and they are soon married. However, Benedict is only interested in Hfuhruhurr's money and Hfuhruhurr still yearns for his previous wife. They travel to Vienna to attend a medical conference where Hfuhruhurr finally divorces Dolores, meets a mysterious Doctor Alfred Necessiter and becomes entangled in a series of murders committed by The Elevator Killer. Have you seen "The Man with Two Brains"?