Carl Reiner, performer, writer and director, died June 29 at his home in Beverly Hills, CA. He was 98.

Mr. Reiner first attracted national attention in 1950 as Sid Caesar’s multitalented second banana on the television variety show, “Your Show of Shows,” for which he was also a writer. A decade later, he created “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” and teamed with Mel Brooks on the hugely successful “2000 Year Old Man” records. His novel, Enter Laughing, became both a hit Broadway play and the first of many movies he would direct.

He won praise as an actor as well, with memorable roles in films like “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” and, more recently, “Ocean’s Eleven” and its sequels.

His contributions were recognized by his peers, by comedy aficionados and, in 2000, by the Kennedy Center, which awarded him the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.