#rob-reiner

#rob-reiner

The actor and director was a man of great energy and vitality, with his most recent film, "Spinal Tap II: The End Continues," coming out just months ago. But Reiner's legacy lives on through his performances in "All in the Family" and "The Wolf of Wall Street" and through his unimpeachable run of films as a director spanning from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s: "This Is Spinal Tap," "The Princess Bride," "Misery,"

I'm sorry. I don't want anybody to get shotyoung kids, I hate that, but Charlie Kirk was not a pimple on Rob Reiner's a** when it comes to influence, when it comes to impact, when it comes to anything else. I don't want to say anything bad, but for God's sake, don't dare compare Charlie Kirk to Rob Reiner. That's not fair.

Rob Reiner, who played Michael Stivic in 1970s sitcom All in the Family, went on to direct films including Stand By Me, A Few Good Men and When Harry Met Sally. His wife, Michele Singer Reiner, was a photographer, and they were found dead in their Brentwood, California, home Sunday afternoon. Nick Reiner was taken into custody Sunday evening. His Tuesday appearance was postponed because medical reasons prevented him from being transported from jail to the courthouse, according to the Associated Press.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dennis Maguire, who worked as Rob Reiner's first assistant director on "Misery" and the reshoots for "Stand By Me." On Sunday, Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Los Angeles home. The following has been edited for length and clarity. People liked Rob, and Rob liked people. He enjoyed life, and I know he gave back. Rob wasn't really flashy. Yes, he was born into royalty in Hollywood, but he wasn't pretentious at all, at least not in my experience with him. He was the real deal.

The rumour began circulating in mid-December, mostly on Facebook. The main post, circulated by Jonathan Gregory, who has more than 80,000 followers, claims that Nick "had recently begun transitioning into a woman". The post goes on to wildly claim that his fictional transition was what led him to his attack his parents. There is no evidence to support the claim that Reiner is transitioning, and a closer look at the Facebook post shows there is no factual basis.

I don't really want to talk about anything other than Rob Reiner because he was such an incredible inspiration to me. And if you mention Tenacious D, there is no Tenacious D without Spinal Tap. And anyone out here, any of the young millennials that haven't seen [This Is] Spinal Tap, do yourself a favor. There's no School of Rock without Spinal Tap.

Wikler pulled out all the stops to achieve this result, and he had help from an unexpected ally: filmmaker Rob Reiner. The Hollywood director became a central figure in what Wikler recalls as "the biggest state party fundraiser, as far as I know, in American history." That event, a dramatic reading of the script from Reiner's highly regarded film The Princess Bride, was streamed online, attracted 142,000 viewers, and stirred the energy of grassroots activists at a critical stage in an ultimately successful campaign.

"His comedic touch was beyond compare, his love of getting the music of the dialogue just right, and his sharpening of the edge of a drama was simply elegant," the statement reads. "For the actors, he loved them. For the writers he made them better."

Famed entertainer Rob Reiner and his wife Michele sadly passed away on Sunday in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood. We are shocked and saddened by the tragic deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele.An Emmy Award-winning actor and Academy Award-nominated director, Reiner was an avid baseball fan. The Bronx native and Los Angeles resident was a longtime Dodgers fan.Reiner made numerous... pic.twitter.com/hS9atUa7kM- MLB (@MLB) December 15, 2025

During his peak, he churned out intelligent studio smash hits like it was the easiest thing in the world; at his lowest, you wondered how in the world anyone thought it was smart to give this guy money to make a movie. Reiner could be called a journeyman director, except what kind of journeyman director could make a movie as confident as When Harry Met Sally, or as anarchic as This Is Spinal Tap, or one that juggles as many tones as The Princess Bride?

Even if you don't know who Rob Reiner was, you're living in a world he helped shape. He leveraged the TV fame he earned in the 1970s playing Mike "Meathead" Stivic, the son-in-law and main adversary of motormouthed bigot Archie Bunker on All in the Family, and became a filmmaker responsible for some of the most beloved American movies of the '80s and '90s: Stand by Me ('86), The Princess Bride('87), When Harry Met Sally('89), Misery ('90), A Few Good Men ('92).

There was always something of the populist in Rob Reiner's directorial work; he trafficked in the realm of the crowd-pleasing comedy, the suspenseful four-quadrant thriller, the mainstream-friendly courtroom drama. But he managed to innovate and pioneer even in these confines. Hell, in his 1984 directorial debut, "This is Spinal Tap," he practically invented the entire genre of the mockumentary (which "Tap" co-writer and co-star Christopher Guest would make a career of continuing), and in so doing changed the face of cinematic comedy forever.

Carl Reiner moved his family to California in the 1950s, with Rob just a boy. And in addition to naming the main character in "The Dick Van Dyke Show" Rob - Rob Petrie - he used family stories in the plots of the show. The real Rob was about Ritchie's age then. I identified him 'cause I was about that age, too.

[ Seinfeld] would have never happened without him. He saw something no one else could. When nobody at the network liked the early episodes, he saved us from cancellation,