Rob Reiner (March 6, 1947–December 14, 2025) had three notable careers: An actor, notably on the groundbreaking CBS sitcom “All within the Household,” beginning in 1971; a director with a string of big hits beginning with “That is Spinal Faucet” (1984) and as a producer through his Citadel Rock Leisure; and as a political activist, working tirelessly for tolerance and equity.
He was nominated for 9 Golden Globes: 5 as TV supporting actor for All within the Household, and 4 as movie director, for Stand By Me (1986), When Harry Met Sally (1989), A Few Good Males (1992) and The American President (1995).
Reiner, the son of Carl and Estelle Reiner, performed small roles in numerous TV sequence, and have become a writing associate of Steve Martin for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. he landed the position of Mike “Meathead” Stivic in “All within the Household,” continuously sparring together with his father-in-law Archie Bunker (Carroll O’Connor) within the cutting-edge sequence that remained the top-rated present for 5 consecutive years. Reiner remarked, “I might win the Nobel Prize and so they’d write ‘Meathead wins the Nobel Prize’.”
He made his directorial movie debut with the heavy metallic mockumentary That is Spinal Faucet (1984). He then directed a string of bigscreen hits, additionally together with The Certain Factor (1985), The Princess Bride (1987) and Distress (1990).
Subsequent movies he directed embrace the racial-themed courtroom drama Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), and the Jack Nicholson-Morgan Freeman comedy The Bucket Listing (2007). His remaining movie as director, Spinal Faucet II: The Finish Continues (2025), was launched three months earlier than his loss of life.
Three of his movies have been inducted into the Nationwide Movie Registry: Princess Bride, Spinal Faucet and When Harry Met Sally.
Citadel Rock Leisure — based in 1987 by Reiner, Martin Shafer, Andrew Scheinman, Glenn Padnick and Alan Horn — has a formidable record of credit, together with the sitcom Seinfeld and movies corresponding to The Shawshank Redemption and The Inexperienced Mile.
As an activist, he was a co-founder of the American Basis for Equal Rights, which initiated a courtroom problem towards California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriages within the state.
In 1998, Reiner chaired the marketing campaign to go Proposition 10, the California Kids & Households Initiative, which created First 5 California, a program of early childhood improvement providers funded by a tax on tobacco merchandise. He served because the group’s first chairman from 1999 to 2006.
Reiner was a member of the Social Accountability Activity Drive, a company advocating moderation the place social points corresponding to violence and tobacco use intersect with the leisure business. He was additionally energetic in environmental causes, efficiently main the trouble to protect California’s Ahmanson Ranch as a state park and wildlife refuge slightly than as a industrial actual property improvement. That was only a fraction of his nonstop activism.