Carl Payne II
Carl R. Payne II has always been into acting in one form or another from an early age. He performed in church as well as in school plays as early as 2nd grade and continued throughout his high school years at Booker T. Washington in Houston, TX. After graduation he moved to California and discovered a new talent in Track & Field. At San Jose City College he excelled and set many records for the college. While in California he worked in various capacities before moving back to Dallas, Tx. He gained employment at a wine and beverage company where he was quickly elevated to Night Manager for their warehouse. Only working 4 nights a week, he decided to get a part-time job at a sport and bar grill in the neighboring community of Addison, TX. It was here that he met a young woman by the name of Bless Brown Vera which facilitated his new and promising career in Nollywood. In the summer of 2012, Bless Brown Vera asked Carl Payne if he would like to play a role in an upcoming movie project that she was a part of. He accepted her offer and went to Arlington, TX so he could audition for it. The producers recognized his amazing talent while witnessing his superb sample of acting from their script. Carl Payne was awarded the role as "The Don" of the movie and "The Stolen Fruit" was his. Word of mouth spread of his outstanding acting ability as far as Houston, Tx. and it wasn't long before he was able to add different roles in movies to his portfolio. He starred in productions such as "A New Dawn; Love & Betrayal; Single Wife's Club (SWC); The Brat; The Capstone Saga and currently has an upcoming movie project titled "Pound of Flesh".
Carl Petersen
Carl Petersen was born in California and raised in Washington. He attended Pacific Lutheran University, where he received a B.F.A in theatre, cum laude. He also studied contemporary and Shakespearean theatre in London, England. Upon graduation he moved to Los Angeles where he became a Upright Citizens Brigade alumni, as well as studying at iO West, Groundlings, Second City and reputable scene study classes. In recent years his acting has led to writing, directing, and producing.
Carl Prekopp
Carl Prekopp is known for Saint Maud (2019), I Want Candy (2007) and The Life Class (2002).
Carl R. Hughes
Carl R. Hughes is an actor, known for Nomadland (2020).
Carl Radke
Carl Radke is an actor and producer, known for Grace Note (2016), Silo: Edge of the Real World (2017) and Bumbld (2018).
Carl Rapp
Carl Rapp is an actor and producer, known for Captain Apache (1971), Curro Jiménez (1976) and Die Brut des Bösen (1979).
Carl Regal
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Carl Reid
Carl Reid is a writer, director, and producer with nearly a decade's worth of professional experience in the entertainment industry. As a writer, Carl has served as a showrunner for multiple series for Kevin Hart's LOL network and Lionsgate. He wrote and produced the comedy series, WTF Baron Davis, and he served as the Chief Writer and Head of Creative Development for the production company, No Label, developing shows and features for Amazon, Warner Brothers, Hulu, and Sony Pictures. Carl is a partner and Development Executive at Redbird Entertainment.
Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner is a legend of American comedy, who achieved great success as a comic actor, a director, producer and recording artist. He won nine Emmy Awards, three as an actor, four as a writer and two as a producer. He also won a Grammy Award for his album "The 2,000 Year Old Man", based on his comedy routine with Mel Brooks. Reiner was born in The Bronx, to Bessie (Mathias) and Irving Reiner, a watchmaker. His father was an Austrian Jewish immigrant and his mother was a Romanian Jewish immigrant. At the age of sixteen, while working as a sewing machine repairman, he attended a dramatic workshop sponsored by the Works Progress Administration. The direction of his life was set. In the 1970s, some sources claimed that Reiner made his movie debut in New Faces of 1937 (1937), but that is unlikely as he would have only been fifteen years old at the time. (the movie shares the same plot as his erstwhile partner Mel Brooks' classic The Producers (1967), with a crooked producer planning to fleece his "angels" by producing a flop and absconding with the money). He didn't appear on screen, silver or small, until he made his television debut in 1948 in the short-lived television series, The Fashion Story (1948), then became a regular, the following year, on The Fifty-Fourth Street Revue (1949), another television series with a brief life. Reiner made his Broadway debut in 1949 in the musical "Inside U.S.A.", a hit that ran for 399 performances. His next Broadway show, the musical revue "Alive and Kicking" (1950) was a flop, lasting just 43 performances. Max Liebman, the producer/director/writer/composer, had been called in to provide additional material after the show's troubled six week out-of-town preview in Boston. It didn't help -- the show closed after six weeks on Broadway -- but an important contact had been made. Leibman was a producer-director on Your Show of Shows (1950), one of the great television series, and he hired Reiner to appear on the show in the middle of its first season. Reiner's first gig on the revue-like show was interviewing The Professor, a character played by Sid Caesar. He became central to the comedy portions of the show and, in 1953, he racked up the first of six Emmy Award nominations for acting. (In all, he was nominated for an Emmy Award a total of 13 times). When, in 1954, "Your Show of Shows" was split up by the network into its constituent parts, Reiner continued on with Sid in Caesar's Hour (1954). (Imogene Coca was given her own show, which lasted one season, and Leibman was allowed to produce specials). "Your Show or Shows" had been a Broadway-style revue, featuring skits such as dancing (including a young Bob Fosse) whereas "Caesar's Hour" was pure comedy. "Your Show of Shows" had had a great cast, another other than Coca, most of the cast, including Reiner, Howard Morris, and Nanette Fabray (who went on to win an Emmy Award) moved over to "Caesar's Hour". In his three seasons on the show, he was nominated three more times for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor, winning twice in 1957 and 1958. But it was its stable of comedy writers that was essential to the great success of both "Your Show of Shows" and "Caesar's Hour". In addition to Mel Brooks, the writing staff included Neil Simon, his brother Danny Simon, Larry Gelbart and Mel Tolkin. (There are rumors that the young Woody Allen served as the writing staff's typist). Reiner had sat in informally with the writers during "Your Show of Shows", but he began writing formally for "Caesar's Hour", having learned his craft from all of the other writers. As a self-described uncredited "writer without portfolio", he was able to leave writers' meetings at 6 P.M., if he wanted to. This gave him the time to work on a semi-autobiographical novel. Published in 1958, Enter Laughing (1967) is about a young man in 1930s New York trying to make it in show business. It was transformed into a play and, eventually, adapted into a movie in 1967, and a musical, many years later. In 1959, he created the pilot for a television series, "Man of the House", in which he would play a writer, Rob Petrie, who balanced his family life with the demands of working as a writer for a comedy show headlined by an egotistical comedic genius modeled after Sid Caesar (a "benign despot" who lacked social skills, according to Reiner). The series was rooted in his experience on "Your Show of Shows" and "Caesar's Hour". The network didn't pick up the pilot at first, as CBS executives claimed the main character, which was clearly autobiographical on Reiner's part, was too New York, too Jewish and too intellectual. In 1960, Reiner teamed up with Mel Brooks on The Steve Allen Show (1951), and their routine "The 2000 Year Old Man" was a huge success. Reiner played the straight man to Brooks in the routine, which was spun-off into five comedy albums, bringing them a Grammy Award. They also made an animated television special based on their shtick in 1975. Though CBS turned down "Man of the House", with the two-time Emmy Award-winning comedian Reiner as the lead, it was still interested in the series. However, they wanted a different actor in the lead role, and the casting of the protagonist came down to Johnny Carson and Dick Van Dyke. Carson was a game show host of no great note at the time, but Van Dyke was in the smash Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie (1963), for which he won a Tony Award. He got the role and another chapter of television history was made, when Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie and Morey Amsterdam all were cast in leading roles. Reiner, himself, would eventually play the role of Alan Brady, the abrasive Sid Caesar-like comic convinced of his own genius, in the last few seasons of the series' five-year run. Another milestone in television comedy, The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961), brought Reiner five more Emmy Awards, three for writing and two as the producer of the series. In 1966, Reiner and the other principals, including executive producer Sheldon Leonard and Dick Van Dyke, decided to end the series at the height of its popularity and critical acclaim. (The show won Emmy Awards as best show and best comedy in 1965 and 1966, respectively). Twenty-nine years after the show was ended, Reiner reprised the role of Alan Brady on Mad About You (1992), winning his eighth (and so far, last) Emmy Award, this time as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. It was on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" that Reiner first became a director. His feature film debut, as a director, was with the film adaptation of the play Joseph Stein had adapted from his 1958 novel, Enter Laughing (1967). His work as a writer-director, with Dick Van Dyke, in creating a Stan Laurel-type character in The Comic (1969) was not a success, but Where's Poppa? (1970) became a cult classic and Oh, God! (1977), with George Burns, and The Jerk (1979), with Steve Martin, were smash hits. The last film he directed was the romantic comedy That Old Feeling (1997). Reiner's career continued into the 21st century, when most of his contemporaries had retired or passes. He was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2000 and acted in the remake of Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its two sequels. He also appeared as a voice artist in the film Good Boy! (2003), and the animated series The Cleveland Show (2009) (he even wrote an episode for the series rooted in his "Your Show of Shows" experience). He was also a regular on the series Hot in Cleveland (2010) (with fellow nonagenarian Betty White), and appeared on an episode of Parks and Recreation (2009) in 2012. His last film role was as the voice of Carl Reineroceros in Toy Story 4 (2019), opposite his old compatriot Mel Brooks. Carl Reiner died at age 92 of natural causes on June 29, 2020, in Beverly Hills, California.
Carl Rice
Carl Rice was born in 1980 in Liverpool, England. He is an actor and writer, known for Cruella (2021), Trollied (2011) and Good Cop (2012).
