He was a frequent partner of fellow US comedy great Mel Brooks as well creating and co-starring in the classic US TV sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show.

Reiner is survived by three children, including Rob Reiner, director of several hit movies and known for playing Archie Bunker's son-in-law Meathead in the hit TV comedy All in the Family.

Returning to New York City after the war, Reiner appeared in several Broadway musicals, including a lead in Call Me Mister, before he was hired to join Caesar's popular TV sketch comedy series Your Show of Shows in the 1950s.

Brooks joined Reiner in creating the 2,000-Year-Old Man routine in which Reiner interviewed the world's oldest living man, played by Brooks, who deadpans satiric, first-person anecdotes of history in a thick Jewish accent.