[1] Born in Tel Aviv, Reiser began his acting career at the age of 18.

Reiser was renowned for his appearances in the French theatre adaptations of plays such as The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Cherry Orchard and The Threepenny Opera.

His most popular television appearance was on a short lived 1994 sitcom in which he plays a widowed father and he also portrayed the prophet Nathan in a 1989 TV film directed by Ram Loevy.

He has also frequently dubbed characters created by The Walt Disney Company in films such as Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast, Henry J. Waternoose in Monsters, Inc., The Duke of Weselton in Frozen, Prince John in Robin Hood, Edgar in The Aristocats and Grimsby in The Little Mermaid.

Outside of Disney, he voiced Cornelius Fudge in the Hebrew dub of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Oogway in Kung Fu Panda.