Legendary writer and actor Carl Reiner best known for creating 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' has died.
, the veteran comedian, actor and director known for starring in"The Dick Van Dyke Show" and the"Ocean's" films, has died at 98.
And let’s just say this up front: If all he’d ever done was create"The Dick Van Dyke Show," one of the best and most influential sitcoms ever made, that would have been enough to ensure his place in the American cultural Hall of Fame. Everything else is just more icing on top of the cake. He was also, however, self-aware, in a way many performers aren’t. When Caesar’s runs finally came to an end, Reiner made a push for the star spot by creating his own sitcom,"Head of the Family." When the network rejected"Head," fearing Reiner didn’t have the onscreen warmth required to keep the audience invested in the story of a TV writer, he could have sulked and balked.
Despite what many suspected Reiner always insisted there was actually very little of Caesar in the often-reprehensible Brady. Instead, he said, Brady was an amalgam of Jackie Gleason, Milton Berle and the Phil Silvers' character from"Top Banana."I worked nine years with Sid,” he once said. “You can’t do that with someone you don’t like.”why"Van Dyke" still resonates as it returned to the classic rerun schedule of MeTV .
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